Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Buy: Monterey Bay Spice Company
Product Description:
Exotic tastes and colors create a tea that is delightful to brew and delicious to drink! Pineapple Papaya Green uses Chinese Sencha as its base, a green tea with slender leaves that produces a yellow cup and a naturally sweet flavor. The Sencha is followed by pineapple pieces and blue malva flowers, which deliver soothing and healing vitamins and enzymes. Delight in this sensational tea with health benefits to boot!
Ingredients- Sencha green tea, pineapple pieces, blue malva flowers, and fruit flavor.
Contains Caffeine
Tasters Review:
Dry Loose Leaf Scent is very nice – it’s mostly Papaya & Flowers where as the Wet Loose Leaf Scent smells more like Green Tea, Papaya, and Pineapple. After infusion is complete – the Liquid Aroma is VERY slight mixture of all of the above.
The Color has a typical medium Green Tea look to it.
This has a Sweeter Green Tea Taste with hints of Pineapple and Papaya…more Pineapple than Papaya. The floral notes sneak in towards the end of the sip and throughout the aftertaste. I have really enjoyed the cups I have had of this flavored green tea!
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!
Sencha Passion from Drink T
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Drink T
Company Description:
Here’s an intriguing blend. Our Sencha Passion takes the fresh grassy and highly aromatic character of this fine Chinese green tea, blending it with tropical papaya and lemon grass. The result is a tangy, fruity beverage with a wonderfully unique character.
Taster’s Review:
I know I say this a lot – but this tea is really good!
The green tea base is smooth. There is a rich, soft texture to the tea that seems to glide over the palate like velvet. It feels very luxurious.
The papaya is sweet and gives this tea a very tropical tone, while the lemongrass offers just enough tart flavor to cut through the sweetness and adds a unique depth to the cup.
This is definitely one of my favorites from Drink T!