Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Oolong
Where to Buy: ESP Emporium
Company Description:
On the one hand, this exclusive, flavored Oolong tea will strike you with the soft, spicy cup of the well-known Chinese Oolong tea and, on the other hand ,with the intense flowery soft note of the Lotus Oolong. This scented creation is rounded off pleasantly with the fresh flavors of ripe passion fruits and apples, and sweetly decorated with pink rosebuds and bright Roman chamomile.
Taster’s Review:
The aroma of this tea is very alluring: it’s like a tropical fruit salad with strong notes of mango and passion fruit, and there are delicate rose notes in the background.
These essences translate into the flavor as well. I am primarily tasting the mango flavor but I can also taste the flavor of peach nectar and even a hint of apple. It is sweet and very juicy.
The tea flavors also come through. The Oolong is a dark Oolong – which indicates a long oxidation time. This is the perfect Oolong base for these fruit flavors, because I’ve found that the darker Oolongs tend to have a natural fruit-like flavor to them. That fruit taste enhances the flavoring very nicely.
This tea also possesses a nutty quality and a light buttery tone. The flowery notes are a little more present in the scent than in the flavor, but I can taste faint floral characteristics to this cup. The union of all these flavors makes for a very ambrosial taste! Delicious!
Garden of Eden Tea from Praise Tea Company
Tea Type: Black Tea
Where To Buy: Praise Tea
Product Description:
Black tea with apple, mango, peach, papaya, orange peel and tropical fruit. Stunningly energetic tea, combines the lush tropical richness & colors of summer fruits. A superb iced tea. Indulge your taste buds.
Tasters Review:
I know you shouldn’t judge a tea by it’s name but I at least get excited about a tea and trying a tea based on the name, sometimes, I’m not going to lie! This is one of those teas!
The INTENSE Aroma of Garden of Eden Tea from Praise Tea is what hits you as soon as you open the bag! It’s mostly mango scented but you can tell there are other smells IN there too! But that Mango really hit me! Good for me – I adore mango!
The taste is great! Although it tastes much different than it smells. ALL the fruit flavors blend together nicely and nothing really steps in front of the other flavors by too much.
For the 2nd infusion I could taste the peach more tho! Both infusions the black tea was bold and and flavors were wonderful!
Delicious!
Burgundy Blast from Simpson & Vail
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Herbal
Where to Buy: Simpson & Vail
Company Description:
This refreshing blend brews to a bright cherry red color with a sweet, tart taste. Comprised of hibiscus flowers, mango, papaya, lemongrass, safflower, mallow blossoms and acai and pomegranate flavors, this tea is fabulous both hot and iced.
Taster’s Review:
I’ll be honest, this tea scared me a little bit… a quick look at the ingredients made me think that this would be just a little too sour for my taste buds. So I put off trying it until now…
Yes, it IS a bit tart … BUT… it is also very tasty! It has enough sweet fruit flavor to it that it smooths out the tart edge just enough so that it’s agreeable.
The key, I think, is to not allow it to steep too long. I steeped it for just 5 minutes. This is enough time to extract flavor from the herbs and fruit without allowing the hibiscus to offset the delicate balance of this cup. Another important factor is that I served it iced. The chill allows the flavors to mellow out without dulling them too much. When it is hot, the flavor is much more potent.
But… let’s get on to how this tastes, because it is really quite tasty. I can taste mango and papaya, pomegranate and açaí. The lemongrass offers just a hint lemony taste, and it is just the right touch to the sweet-tart blend of fruits.
The hibiscus offers some body to this blend – but because I only steeped it for 5 minutes, it isn’t a thick, syrupy consistency. It is also not overwhelmingly sour. It offers just the right level of tart to create a very delicate balance between tart and sweet. 
Simpson & Vail has a very intriguing recipe for this tea – Burgundy Blast Fizzy Drink – which can be found here. It looks absolutely delicious!
I enjoyed this tea very much and it was just the right tea for today, because even though the calendar says it’s autumn, the weather is very summer-like. It was HOT today! Drinking this as an iced tea was very refreshing!
Island Blend from Design a Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Design a Tea
Company Description:
A Green tea blend called SENCHA FINE from Japan with all natural Vanilla & Mango flavoring. Think of swinging ever so gently on a canvas hammock, one leg draped off the side. A warm breeze blowing across the lagoon of an exotic island with the smell of mango in the air, as you sip away your worries…
Taster’s Review:
This is a very unusual tea – and I mean that in a very good way. Mango and vanilla are two flavors that I wouldn’t ordinarily think about putting together, but this combination of mango, vanilla and Japanese Sencha tea creates an almost seamless flavor that is not exactly vanilla or mango or green tea. It’s like a new flavor that I’ve not really encountered before today.
It’s really delicious!
The green tea offers a fresh and somewhat vegetative nature to the blend. I can also note a slight buttery essence to the tea, which I would attribute to the Sencha as well. The mango is sweet and fragrant – as is the vanilla. The vanilla also offers a creamy taste and texture to the cup, while the mango offers its distinctive fruit flavor to it.
These qualities mesh together so well that it’s difficult to distinguish one flavor from another. The result is a smooth, rich flavor that glides over the palate like a beautiful, elegant dance executed so well that it appears effortless.
This tea is really, truly YUM and I want more.
Cranberry Mango Green Tea from TeaGschwendner
Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Buy: TeaGschwendner
Product Description:
Green teas from China and Ceylon with cranberry and mango bits
Tasters Review:
I have to admit I am fairly new to TeaGschwendner Teas. If it wasn’t for my fellow tea buddies and swappers I probably wouldn’t have been able to try them. I have found that I like most of their teas that I have tried so far. Cranberry Mango Green Tea is currently towards the top of the list of being one of my favorites so far!
I cannot express how awesome this tea smells! If a smell could be iridescent this would be it! I could smell cranberries but then a little mango…oddly enough I was getting an overwhelming grapefruit type smell from across the room…not sure why because it’s cranberry and mango but I am NOT complaining in the slightest because this is one of the most awesome smelling green teas I have ever smelled n my life! It doesn’t even lose that much of the smell once infused!
It’s a light yellow/green in color and very pleasing to my palate. It’s refreshing and juicy and thirst quenching and fun! The Cranberry and Mango couldn’t be dancing a more perfect dance with each other.
I like green tea, and I like Cranberry and Mango. Apparently this flavored green has all of the components and I was lucky enough to try it!