Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White
Where to Buy: Octavia Tea
Company Description:
Transport yourself to a fragrant orchard in mid-summer with this mouth-watering blend of peach, ginger and rare white tea. White tea has a delicate, honey-like flavor and contains the highest antioxidant level of all teas.
Our Ginger Peach white tea was a finalist at the World Tea Championships and is one of our best sellers!
Taster’s Review:
I absolutely love the combination of peach and ginger. The peppery heat from ginger pairs so well with the sweet and juicy flavor of a peach. I really like the contrast of flavors. So I was very excited to try this Ginger Peach tea from Octavia.
While white tea is rather delicate in flavor, here it works well. It is a soft-tasting tea, but it has a natural honey-like sweetness that complements the ginger flavor very well. And even though it is soft, it is not so delicate that it is indistinguishable. I can definitely taste the sweet, fresh qualities of the white tea in my cup.
The ginger is the strongest flavor of the cup. It offers a pleasant peppery kick – but it is a gentle, swift kick and doesn’t knock me over with its flavor. It is a very pleasing contrast to the lusciously sweet fruit flavor. It tastes just like a fresh, ripe peach! YUM!
This is a tea that can be relaxing if served hot, or rejuvenating when served iced… and it is absolutely delicious whichever way you choose to serve it. I like mine with just a tiny drizzle of honey in it (I prefer raw, locally harvested honey) to highlight the honey-esque notes of the white tea just a little.
This is also a tea that should be kept on hand at all times – as good medicine! It is especially soothing to a sore throat or an upset stomach, and it has a mild enough flavor that kids as well as adults can enjoy it. And, here’s another bonus: It’s organic – another reason to feel really good about this tea.
Ginger Peach from Jar of Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Jar of Tea
Company Description:
Our Ginger Peach Black Tea is a top notch organic black tea, organic apricot, organic ginger, and organic flavoring. Great for soothing aches and pains!
Ingredients: organic black tea, organic apricot, organic ginger, and organic peach flavoring.
Taster’s Review:
Peach is one of my favorite scents. I just love how delicious and sweet it smells – like a warm, sunny day! When blended with ginger, the aroma becomes even more delicious and my mouth begins to water – much like it did when I took a sniff of the dry leaf of this tea. YUM!
This is a pleasant tasting ginger peach tea. The ginger is strong but does not overwhelm the peach essence. The flavor is sweet and spicy, just the way I like a ginger peach tea to be. The black tea flavor is mellow and sort of sits in the background and lets these two flavors play on the palate, but isn’t completely absent from the cup.
One thing that caused me a bit of confusion when I first read the information about this tea is – why use apricot bits in the blend rather than peach bits? As a tea blender, I realize that the fruity bits that are often added to a tea really have very little (to no) impact on the flavor of the tea so it really wouldn’t matter much if they used apricot or peach bits, or even apple bits or NO bits whatsoever. That being said, why not just use peach bits? Are they not as readily available as apricot? But, perhaps that is the issue, maybe not that peach bits are not available, but perhaps that organic peach bits are a bit more difficult to come by than organic apricot. I don’t know… and perhaps I shall continue to wonder…
One thing that I am not confused about is the popularity of ginger and peach as a combination when it comes to flavored teas – a lot of tea companies seem to have a ginger peach variety. However, some of these teas are not as well balanced in flavor as is this blend. I like that the flavors are clearly focused, that I can taste all the elements, and I also like that it is all organic ingredients. This tea is a real winner – and while it’s tasty served hot, it’s also very refreshing as an iced tea too.