Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Green

Where to Buy:  Tealicious Tea Company

Tea Description:

A blend of high grade green Sencha tea, rose petals, beautiful blue cornflowers and brightly colored yellow sunflowers. This offers a refreshing and smooth flavor that awakens your taste buds.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Spring is here!  Signs of spring are all around me, from the beautiful pink plumage of the trees that line the streets in my neighborhood, to the promenade of the proud robins hopping around the lawns, to the bright yellow daffodils that pop up in random patches along the roadsides.

This tea seems a perfect choice to sip when contemplating the magic of spring.  It is a gorgeous tea, not only to the eye with its colorful petals and lush, green tea leaves; but it is also lovely to the nose and the palate as well.  The aroma is so incredibly beautiful, with hints of fresh grass and the air that sweeps over rose blossoms in the spring. That divine fragrance filled the kitchen as this tea brewed, and the brewed tea – while its bouquet is quite a bit softer than the dry leaf – it still holds on to hints of that flowery, fresh scent.

The tea tastes very much the way the aroma led me to believe:  it tastes fresh and lively, with delightful floral touches.  It isn’t an overwhelmingly flowery tasting tea, though.  The rose is the strongest of the floral tones, and it is more like a whisper of rose flavor rather than a powerful rose taste that you might experience from a rose scented tea (a rose congou, for example).  Here, the floral notes are much more delicate, but I like the way they enhance the overall cup.

The green tea is a very bright, refreshing tea with floral notes of its own, which are highlighted by the presence of the flower petals in this blend.  There are vegetal notes and a buttery undertone.  There is some astringency to this, but not much.  It’s more like a slightly dry feel to the tongue in the aftertaste, followed by a lingering floral note.

A lovely tea to enjoy these early days of spring … or any time of year for that matter!

Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Fruit/Herbal Tisane

Where to Buy:  Compass Teas

Product Description:

Soothing and refreshing, this spearmint tea is perfect hot or iced.

Made with All Organic Ingredients

Taster’s Review:

Every once in a while, I get an upset stomach.  Don’t we all?  At times like that (or shall I say “at times like this”), I usually turn to peppermint, but this evening, I decided to try some spearmint instead.  This spearmint which is also known as Meadow Tea from Compass Teas.

It’s difficult to compare one spearmint from another, so I won’t try to do that.  But I will say that I like that this Meadow Tea from Compass is a 100% pure, organic spearmint.  It tastes just the way I expected it to, and when I am feeling a bit down-and-out like I am tonight, I really don’t want any surprises.

The spearmint is crisp and vibrant.  It is very exhilarating and leaves my mouth feeling minty clean and fresh.  This is a pleasant change-up from my usual “go to” peppermint.  As I write this, I feel my unsettled stomach relaxing, and I feel myself begin to perk up a bit.  That’s just what I wanted from this Meadow Tea, and it delivered.  I can’t really ask for more than that!

Tea Type: Black Tea

Where To Buy: The Rabbit Hole

Product Description:

This classic little black will get those peepers open with its great smooth and hearty flavour.

Loves a splash of milk and a sprinkle of sugar if you’re feeling like some sweetening.

Tasters Review:

Some may say it’s a contradiction being both bold AND smooth but I think it’s PURE genius if this can be accomplished and The Rabbit Hole did just that with their Organic Breakfast Blend!

This tea is really tasty!   I’m loved it!  It’s bold but not the BOLDEST of BOLD and it’s nice and smooth!  It has a wonderful black tea flavor and I could definitely see this being a staple of any black tea fan tea cupboard…including my own!  The Rabbit Hole Organic Tea Bar continues to amaze me!

Tea Type: Fruit/Herbal Tisane

Where To Buy: Fusion Tea Room

Product Description:

Green leaves, dark-red blossoms and bright fruits shine intensively. Truly a feast for the eyes. Thanks to some select, dried fruits and plants, this herb tea blend has a sweet taste and is very aromatic. In the background hibiscus and ginger softly unfold their typical characteristics. Fruity sweet and spicy fresh flavors ennoble this blend.

Ingredients: Apple pieces, rose hip peel, hibiscus, wild strawberry leaves, lemon myrtle, sweet blackberry leaves, flavoring, ginger pieces, strawberry slices.

Tasters Review:

This is VERY tasty and refreshing! It’s mostly strawberry with a small amount of ginger underneath.  It’s not an artificial strawberry and I am very happy about that.  It’s almost like water with fresh strawberries in it!  If you can ‘picture that’.  The other ingredients such as the apple, hibiscus, blackberry leaves, etc are all very mild but blend together nicely for the overall flavor.  I enjoy this both hot and cold!  A tasty cup any time of year!

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Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Black

Where to Buy:  52Teas (this tea was a limited edition tea and is now sold out)

Product Description:

This is not your grandma’s cinnamon tea! We got some special ordered red hot cinnamon flavoring for this blend, and it burns sooooo good!

Our premium Indian black teas blended with real cinnamon stick pieces AND red hot candies!

Prepare to be blown away!

Taster’s Review:

To be honest, this was not a tea that I was immediately excited about and had to order right away.  I mean yeah, I like cinnamon, and I love red hot candies, but, I’ve tried a few hot cinnamon-type teas and I didn’t think that this would be much different from those.

I was wrong!  (Just don’t tell my husband I said that!)

This is really good, and MUCH different from the other cinnamon teas I’ve tried.  This one doesn’t taste as much like red hot candies as I thought it would.  It has a spicy cinnamon-y taste, but, unlike some of those other cinnamon teas, the black tea base is not overwhelmed with cinnamon flavor here.  Rather, the black tea base is the dominate flavor.  I like that a lot!

That’s not to say that the cinnamon isn’t strong here, it is plenty strong.  But, the black tea taste is equally as strong.  It is a full-flavored, robust black tea.  The black tea base that 52Teas uses in most of their black tea blends is a combination of Blue Mountain Nilgiri and Assam teas.  And even though this is the black tea blend that is used in most of 52Teas blend, it seems like with every blend, the black tea tastes just a little different.  The flavorings bring out different aspects of the tea and this is something that I’ve really come to appreciate about 52Teas.

Here, I can taste more of the sweet, fruity tones of the Nilgiri and I love the way these notes play with the cinnamon flavor.  This is really much more flavorful and delicious than I expected from this tea, and that’s coming from someone who is a BIG fan of 52Teas!  Bravo!

Tea Type: Green Tea (Chai)

Where To Buy: Chai Wallah

Product Description:

A blend of our organic chai spice and Fair Trade Organic Green Tea from Korakundah Estate in Nilgiri, South India . Korakundah was the first certified organic Nilgiri tea estate. Established in 1922, the garden has become one of India’s premier organic tea estates. Tigers, panthers and elephant herds are spotted regularly in the dense jungle surrounding the pristine garden. This chai is smooth and mellow unlike its Assam stablemate! The chai should not be boiled or simmered but steeped otherwise it will reduce the beneficial properties of the tea.

Tasters Review:

I have to say…Spice with Green Tea from Chai Wallah surprised me!

The Green Tea is perfect!   The Spice is intense but works very well!  This is very flavorful and the primary spice that works the runway is the black pepper!  It’s a true and natural black pepper taste and it’s spicy-good!  The Cinnamon, Cardamom, and Cloves all seem to be together as the secondary flavor.   Everything is very natural tasting and I really appreciate that about this green chai!

This is VERY Nicely done!

Tea Type: Green Tea

Where To Buy: Bird Pick Tea & Herb

Product Description:

Creamy with light notes of sweetness.

Entice your senses with Premium Silky Green Tea. Offering a pleasantly sweet and creamy aroma and flavor, its refreshing brew provides surprisingly light and delicate notes that easily pleases the taste buds. Try adding sugar and ice for a refreshing beverage that will surely not disappoint any palate.

Origin: Taiwan
Brew: Golden Jade
Flavor: Refreshing and creamy melodies with lightly sweet notes

Tasters Review:

Premium Silky Green Tea from Bird Pick Tea & Herb has an AWESOME aroma!  It’s like nothing I have ever smelled before!

The only way I can describe the dry loose leaf aroma is intensely buttered flavored popcorn – I think I can even smell a little naturally salted flavor – unless I just am associating the aroma with buttered popcorn so much so that my mind is playing tricks on me!  Whatever it is I have to say I would easily give the aroma on this one a 100!!!!

These are some crazy wild leaves, too, that put on quite the show as they unfurl!

The taste is also Buttery!  Buttered Veggies!  Buttered Popcorn!   It’s semi-sweet and a very flavorful green!  The more I sip it the more sweeter it gets!  This is smooth! It reminds me of a milky oolong but then it reminds me of a buttery green!  It may be somewhere in the middle – regardless I am REALLY enjoying this one!

This is probably one of the most memorable greens I have had in a LONG time!

I ended up doing multiple infusions on this one too!  I highly recommend trying multiple infusions with this one!  The 2nd infusions is completely different than the first but far from disappointing!!!!

This is MUCH sweeter and MUCH MORE silkier and creamy and sooth the 2nd time around!   It’s less buttery and more sweet with the 2nd infusion. It’s still FULL of flavor tho and a wonderful tasting green!!!

As for the 3rd infusion…

Again it’s completely different from the previous infusion!  This is still intensely flavored but this time around it’s more of a grassy green with slight buttery notes underneath. It still ends rather smooth and I would still call it silky but a grassier silky instead of a buttered popcorn silky/creamy…maybe more like a broccoli type!?

I LOVE YOU Silky Green!

Tea Type:
Green/White Tea Blend

Where To Buy:
Sanctuary T

Product Description:

An amazing blend of green tea, white tea and passionfruit flavor.

Tasters Review:

Well, I know I am ready for Spring!  Are you!?  It’s been an overly trying winter across the United States.  I have always lived in a snow belt area but this year has been the worst I have see in a long time.  The worst part is…I HATE WINTER…I’ve always hated winter…I HATE snow…I will ALWAYS hate snow!

So – needless to say – I can’t wait for Spring!  I can’t wait for nice weather!  I can’t wait to see the blooming of flowers, the sun beating down, green grass, and wildlife again!

In the meantime this tea helps.

Spring Harvest from Sanctuary T is a Fruity Green and White Tea Blend.  Mostly Green tho and I am ok with that.  The green tea is almost buttery and quite smooth going down.  It’s slightly tropical minus the stereotypical coconut tropical flavor.  I suppose that would be one way of describing it anyways.

Yes!  This sure helps me THINK SPRING!!!!

Tea has saved the day again!  Here’s to SPRING!  CHEERS!!!!

Tea Type: Herbal

Where To Buy: Good For You Teas

Product Description:

SIMMER DOWN TEA
A nourishing blend with a hint of berry and sweetness. A relaxing tea to help build a wall against stress. Great for the nerves and the heart. Hawthorn berries are the main ingredient, which are amazing for the heart. Made for the Heart Chakra. INGREDIENTS: Hawthorn berries, milky oat tops, nettles, schisandra, alfalfa, gingko, Eleuthero root (Siberian ginseng), Rhodiola rosea root, rosemary, skullcap, pink roses & lavender flowers. (NO CAFFEINE) All the herbs were purchased certified organic or grown in my garden. Over 50% New England grown.

Tasters Review:

I have been waiting to try this tisane.  For a few reasons, actually.  One being I really have to be in the mood to drink most herbals.  The 2nd reason being I wanted to NEED to be Simmered Down to get the full effect of this Herbal Tea.

I’ve been a “Nervous Nelly” the last few weeks because of the Holiday Hustle Bustle (I still haven’t even started shopping yet because of the awful weather we have been having) and scrambling with work, home, and crafting problems and projects!  So I figured this week was as good as time as any to give this tea a whirl!

I assumed this would taste REALLY herbally and I wouldn’t like it but I will say I was pleasantly surprised and I enjoyed this cup pretty well.

ALL of the ingredients play nice and are on the mild side!

I would say a little berry and a little herb – but again – the flavors blended well and were gentle!  I LOVE that this tisane did NOT shout!