Tea Type: Black Tea
Where To Buy: Octavia Tea
Product Description:
Early morning rays of sun shimmer and dance upon your teacup as this brisk, bright, flavor-rich black tea with the pleasant zing of lemon delivers you into the day. Sunrise also makes a gorgeous iced tea with refreshing notes of citrus.
Tasters Review:
I’ll tell you…SUNRISE from Octavia Tea didn’t last in my personal tea stash for very long! This is one nice tea!
The aroma is wonderful! The citrus is the key! That Lemon-Citrus makes for a great pair with the bold aroma of the black tea. The taste is also bold and beautiful! This tea is great for mornings! It really did help me wake up today! I’ve also had this in the afternoon for a midday pick-me-up, too! Mission Accomplished! This is FAB hot or cold.
Pearl of Fruits from ESP Emporium
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black & Green
Where to Buy: ESP Emporium
Company Description:
This fruity creation will impress you with its unusual spicy influences. Notes of exotic fruits, berries and creamy soft almond endow this black and green tea blend from China and Ceylon with an exotic, oriental taste experience, and orange peels and various blossoms reflect this in its appearance.
Taster’s Review:
This is one of those teas that I wasn’t too sure about before I tasted it. It is a blend of black and green teas, and because this causes some concern when it comes to brewing the tea, I am always a little skeptical about these blends. Since black tea is best brewed when the water is brought to a gentle boil, and green tea is best brewed when the water is hot but not boiling, it can be a little confusing as to how to best extract the flavor from the tea without ruining it.
In cases like this, I always go with the lower temperature. This results in less flavor from the black tea, but, then again, with the lighter flavored green tea, this is probably a good thing. So, I heated the water to the steaming point, when the tiny bubbles began forming at the base of the kettle but weren’t yet rising to the surface. Then I steeped it for 4 minutes. I felt safe that this would result in a tasty brew.
And I was correct! This is very tasty, indeed. The black tea is indeed lighter than a typical black tea would be when brewed with boiling water, but it works in this cup. The combination of the two teas creates a very well-rounded taste – with a slightly woodsy note and a fresh note of vegetation. I can even taste just a hint of smoke in the background, but it is ever so slight.
This creates a nice backdrop for the flavoring. I taste a “fruit” taste that is somewhat like a tropical melangé. Like the description above suggests, it does have a very exotic taste to it, and I love the whisper of the nutty flavor of almond, and although I don’t get much of the creamy taste that the description implies, I do like how well the nutty tones meld with the other flavors here.
There is also a delicate floral note that hits about mid-sip. It is lightly sweet and gives a really interesting complexity to this refreshing cup of tea. But it is the fruit flavors that are the most prominent here: there is a distinct citrus-y tone to this tea, as well as an equally distinct berry tart taste that lingers in the finish.
Because of the overall lightness of this tea, it has very little to no astringency (I didn’t detect any, and my palate tends to be very sensitive in detecting astringency), and when brewed properly, it is not bitter. Just delicious, fruity flavor! Oh! And this one is even better when chilled! Yum!
Little Black Dress – Slimming Tea – Citrus from Teaquilibrium
Tea Type:
Green/Oolong/Rooibos Blend
Where To Buy: Teaquilibrium
Product Description:
Little Black Dress Citrus is a refreshing blend of zesty lemon and exotic bergamot delicious hot and especially refreshing iced. Think poolside or beach with a lemon wedge in a tall frosty glass. The added green tea and green rooibos will give an extra boost of calm energy to this uplifting blend.
So go ahead, have a cup and put on that little black dress!
For easy preparation, cold infuse your LBD Citrus with the help of the aladdin travel mug. Always Balanced and Beautiful anywhere you go!
ingredients: oolong tea, green tea, green rooibos, lemongrass, lemon myrtle, citrus flavor, jasmine blossoms.
benefits: speeds metabolism, helps burn fat
how many cups? approximately 40 tsp. per 2.5 oz tin; that’s about 80 eight oz cups at 19 cents per cup*
preparation: heat water: 195 F, scoop: 1.5 tsp/8 oz., steep 3 – 4 min.
naturally caffeinated
*fresh whole leaf teas can be infused at least twice— just steep a little longer the second time.
Tasters Review:
Little Black Dress – Slimming Citrus is an Oolong-Green Tea-Green Rooibos Blend…and I was VERY excited to try it! It sounded very unique and creative!
It brewed VERY Dark and smelled mostly floral and with a hint of lemon. I could taste the green tea a bit more than the oolong and green rooibos. The Jasmine stood out as the floral taste more as it cools. This had a slight vegetal/earthy taste towards the end of the sip.
I liked the idea of this one and the taste is…well…pretty TASTY!
Sencha Yuzu Green Tea from Rishi Tea
Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Buy: Rishi Tea
Product Description:
A variety of citrus rarely found outside of Asia, yuzu is a classic ingredient in Japanese cuisine. Yuzu has a complex citrus flavor and floral aroma that pairs well with our refreshing blend of first flush green tea and matcha. We developed a unique drying process and blending technique that captures the fresh essence of yuzu without the use of added flavors. This entirely natural blend is refreshing and pleasantly sweet with citron flavor and offers an aroma of roses and geraniums.Ingredients: green tea and dried yuzu citrus fruit. / Origin: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Tasters Review:
This morning…I am in the presence of greatness! That’s according to the World Tea Expo! Rishi’s Sencha Yuzu also known as Yuzucha is a 2009 World Tea Expo Winner!
I must say this is truly unique…and I like unique!
It looks to have the powdery Sencha along with Yuzu pieces and lemon grass in the blend. The aroma is a lovely but not over-done citrus.
I did two infusions of this. As suggested my first attempt – I infused for 2 minutes and it was great! I could taste the citrus and true green tea. It was a little vegetal and a little sweet and grassy but then also citrus!
As for the 2nd infusion I also went with their suggestion of a minute to infuse and it was still very good – a very high quality solid green tea taste…sweet grass and vegetal, indeed. But the Yuzu Citrus Fruit Flavor wasn’t as bold as the first infusion. However, what I could taste of the Yuzu was still quite good. Both infusions seem to leave a toasted-nutty sort of taste which was unexpected yet tasty.
I really like this offering and understand why it has won awards!
Organic Better Morning Blend from Two Leaves And A Bud
Tea Type: Herbal
Where To Buy: Two Leaves And A Bud
Product Description:
Better Morning Blend features a zing of lemon, a refreshing touch of citrus, peppermint, kombucha, and aromatherapy to stimulate your senses. A balanced, sweet flavor that’s reason enough to get out of bed. If you suddenly decide you’re a morning person, it’ll be our little secret!
Tasters Review:
This was surprisingly good! By that I mean…many herbals don’t catch my interest often and this one did!
It was lighter on the herbally-medicine-E taste and the lemon was perfectly done. The mint was subtle in the end of the sip on to the aftertaste.
Throughout the sip the gentle citrus was a nice touch. I really think what made this work is that everything was present but it wasn’t over done. It was tasty as well as good for you and a nice way to start the day.
I’m very happy with this herbal!