Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White
Where to Buy: Element Tea
Company Description:
Enjoy this wine-inspired tea anytime of day! With rose petals and jasmine flowers, this delicate White tea brews a silky, smooth, and very pleasant cup.
Ingredients: White Tea, Rose Petals, Jasmine Flowers, Cabernet Flavoring
Taster’s Review:
Ah! This is nice! The flavor is so light and crisp. Each ingredient is quite soft in this blend, but each has its place and no one ingredient overpowers the others. Together the soft flavors of the ingredients deliver a very flavorful sip without becoming overbearing.
The white tea base is delicate but manages to make its presence known upon the palate amid these other flavors. It tastes fresh and sweet.
The floral additions to this blend are quite nice. I like how they compliment the Cabernet flavor. They impart their distinctive flavor in the blend and enhance the overall flavor of the cup.
The wine flavor offers a fruity flavor – I taste grapes and black currants – and a slight tannic effect. That is not to say that this cup is overly astringent, because it isn’t. However, there is a drying sensation in the finish that is very similar to a fine dry wine.
I really enjoyed this cup. It is very light (and brews to a beautiful pale yellow color that is very similar to a white wine) and refreshing. It is delicious served hot or iced, and really doesn’t require any sweetening unless you like your tea on the sweet side. I found it to be pleasantly sweet without anything added.
White Coconut Crème from Element Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White
Where to Buy: Element Tea
Company Description:
With an inviting coconut scent, the first sip will bring a smile to your face. This tea delivers a sweet creamy texture with a light body and a good balance of flavors between tea and sweet coconut.
Taster’s Review:
Over the last couple of years, I’ve grown rather fond of coconut flavored teas. This one may just be the best one yet!
The flavor is smooth and creamy and rich!
The white peony tea base is very soft and delicate which allows for the coconut flavor to develop fully. However, I am still able to taste the fresh, light taste of the tea. It tastes clean and possesses a faint leafy/grassy flavor. It is not bitter (and I oversteeped it!) and has very little astringency. It is sweet and very pleasant.
The coconut flavor is sweet and delicious. It imparts that sort of “slick” coconut feel to the palate, and because this tea has very little astringency, there is nothing that stands in the way from enjoying the aftertaste that the slickness delivers.
I just love the creaminess of this tea. Truly a delightful treat! It would make a very good dessert tea, it is sweet and delicious enough that I really wouldn’t miss a more caloric dish. And this is one that is just as delicious chilled as it is hot!
I highly recommend this tea to every lover of coconut out there!
Guiltless Apple Pie from Element Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Rooibos & Honeybush
Where to Buy: Element Tea
Company Description:
This sin-free delicious dessert tea is perfect for any autumn day when you crave Apple Pie the most. You can literally taste the warm sliced apples and pastry in your cup. Yum!
Ingredients: Green Honeybush, Green Rooibos, Apple Bits, Raisins, Hazelnut, Flavoring Bits
Taster’s Review:
This tea smells so good. The dry leaf smells like a nutty apple pie. The brewed liquor smells a little less like pie but a little more of the apple scent comes through, and I can still smell the nutty scent. It smells like a homemade apple pie and evokes memories of visits to gramma’s house.
Mmm! This is delicious.
Let me start with the base of honeybush and rooibos. Using green honeybush and green rooibos for this blend is GENIUS for a couple of reasons. First, the green (or unoxidized) varieties of these two herbs tends to be lighter and fresher tasting. The green varieties also tend to have a little less of the woodsy flavor that these two leaves are known to have, and instead, the flavor tends to lean a little towards the fruity side. There is still a light woodsy flavor to it, but, because there is also a somewhat fruity nature to the taste, it lends itself well to a fruity dessert tea such as this.
Second, I have found that in a blend containing both rooibos and honeybush, that the honey-like quality of the honeybush tends to tame that funky sweet aftertaste of the rooibos quite well. By using both of these two leaves in the blend, Element Tea has managed to cancel out the funky taste of the rooibos while keeping a light, fruity taste and a honey-esque sweetness that complements the overall profile of this tisane very well.
But, enough with all the technical talk… let’s start talking about how this tea tastes! Put very simply, it tastes just as the name implies: it tastes like apple pie in a tea cup! The apple and raisins lend a sweet and well-rounded fruit flavor to the tisane, while the hazelnut offers a nutty taste. I can taste a pastry flavor to this too, it is slightly buttery. The nutty taste from the hazelnuts elevates the buttery quality and gives it a very nice, nutty crust like taste.
YUMMY! This tea is true to its name. It’s a great way to have your pie and drink it too!
April Showers from Element Tea
Tea Type: Herbal Tea
Where To Buy: Element Tea
Product Description:
Bring your passion for tea to the table. This bracingly refreshing tea has been hand-selected for your enjoyment, anytime, day or night.
Brew Time: 7 minutes
Ingredients: Apple Bits, Raisins, Carrot Bits, Beetroot Bits, Candied Pineapple Bits (Pineapple, Sugar), Candied Papaya Bits (Papaya, Sugar), Flavoring, Bamboo Leaves, Lemon Fruit Granulate
Tasters Review:
April Showers from Element Tea smells like Raisins, Carrots, and candy…as I first move it from the envelop and put some in my cup. It’s a bright reddish purple in color. When I saw the color of the liquid I was so afraid – I was thinking there was Hibiscus in it BUT thankfully…there is NO Hibiscus! That’s Beet Root I must be seeing!!!!
My first impression and tasting notes I could taste Carrots and Pineapple, then I can taste sugar or a candied-fruit. Then Lemon…and even some raisin. The after taste is that of Lemon and Apple. Nothing is overpowering and everything is playing nice with each other!
As it cools the carrot, lemon, pineapple, papaya, and candied fruit pop thru a bit more.
Honestly…this is most unusual but I am enjoying this much more that I ever thought I would! If one ingredient is a bit more noticeable than the other ingredients it just might be the carrot but like I said before…nothing is too overpowering.
Classic Phoenix Oolong From Element Tea
Tea Type: Oolong
Where To Buy: Element Tea
Product Description:
Fine, long-twisted, single-stem leaves provide a light amber-yellow cup that carries a highly fragrant aroma of honeysuckle and almond. This Oolong has a smooth, delicate finish that you won’t forget.
Brew Time: 3 – 4 minutes
Ingredients: Chinese Oolong Tea
Tasters Review:
The Product Description for Classic Phoenix Oolong From Element Tea says “Long twisted leaves” and THAT is completely accurate!
It also says this tea is reminiscent of honeysuckle – I also agree! I also think it’s a bitty nutty and smooth – very smooth!
This tea is beautiful all-round! And it was just screaming for a 2nd infusion – so I jumped at the opportunity. The 2nd infusion was also nice! A full oolong taste with a more almond like finish – moreso than the first infusion. I infused over 7 minutes on the 2nd infusion.
I really do LOVE this!