Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Red Leaf Tea
Company Description:
Packed full of delicious tropical ingredients, Gold Rush Tea definitely tastes as good as it looks! Luscious bits of mango serve as mood enhancers while passion fruit helps revitalize your body! The colorful and aromatic brew is gently touched by delicate floral notes of cornflowers, blue mallow flowers, safflowers, and marigolds. The vigorous black tea provides soothing body and warmth to this delicious tea that is soo sweet to sip on.
Taster’s Review:
This is a pleasant tropical blend. The aroma is very fruity and smells delicious. The leaf cut is very small on this blend, much smaller than the photograph led me to believe – other than that, though, the tea looks very much like the photo. With the beautiful petals scattered throughout the blend, it is bright and colorful.
The black tea is front and center with this cup, especially when first sipping. As I continue to sip, the fruit flavors develop a little more. The black tea is delicious and brisk. It has a very smooth character and has no bitterness and some astringency. It isn’t an extraordinarily drying astringency, but it does leave the palate ready for the sweet fruit finish.
The mango and passion fruit in this blend unite almost seamlessly. The flavor is sweet and very tropical. No tartness, nothing unpleasant, no surprises. It is just delicious!
The flowers in the blend are there primarily for aesthetic purposes, as they do not pose a prominent flavor in this cup. I can taste very faint, generic floral tones that kind of come and go in each sip, but, they are barely noticeable when casually sipping.
This is a very appealing tropical blend that I’ve enjoyed very much. On a chilly afternoon like today, it transports me (mentally!) to a much warmer climate, complete with palm trees and sunny, sandy beaches!
And as I write this, I noticed that Red Leaf Tea is offering 10% off this blend – plus FREE shipping! Yay!
Black Tea Maracuja from Drink T
Tea Type: Black Tea
Where To Buy: Drink T
Product Description:
Maracuja is the traditional name of passion fruit. Our Black Tea Maracuja is a blend of finest quality black tea with passion fruit, calendula flowers and apricot pulp. This tantalizing blend renders an irresistible tropical aroma and flavor.
Bring water to boil (212)
Steep Time: 3 – 5 Minutes
Number of Infusions: 1
Sweetener: Optional
Cream: No
Caffeine: Strong
Tasters Review:
If you LOVE Apricots – I think it’s safe to say you will enjoy this! Lucky for me…I do! I have always LOVED Apricots!
The aroma 100 percent Apricot right out of the package! Once infused the Apricot and Passion Fruit meet in the middle. The taste is a very flavored black tea…mostly Apricot but I can pick up the Passion Fruit, too! I can’t taste too much a floral notes which is ‘fine by me’ and it’s a tropical fruity taste not really a fruity-floral taste like some tropical blends can be. It’s also not a tarty fruit taste or an artificial fruitiness which I am very grateful for!
I’m very happy with this tea. Probably one of the better Apricot Flavored teas I have ever had!
Oolong Flower of Asia Tea from ESP Emporium
Tea Type: Oolong
Where To Buy: ESP Emporium
Product 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.
Tasters Review:
I just have to say…Oolong Flower of Asia Tea from ESP Emporium smells awesome! Just like a mixture of Mango, Apple, Lemon, Passionfruit, Flowers.
I can taste the Oolong, Flowers, and fruity flavoring. Everything mixes well together. I’m drinking hot right now but I can see this ICED in my future!!!
I have to say that I was a little nervous with the Chamomile and Rose mentions in the product description but I am SO glad I open my mind when it comes to tea because if I didn’t I wouldn’t have found this Deeee-lish Oolong! This is truly wonderful!
Passion Fruit Black Tea from Design A Tea
Tea Type: Black Tea
Where To Buy: Design A Tea
Product Description:
Koslanda – Dimbulla blend from Sri Lanka with all natural flavoring
Tasters Review:
I’ve had so much fun sampling the teas I have had the opportunity to try from Design A Tea! Of course it doesn’t hurt that I am originally from Western New York and Design A Tea is based in Darien Center, NY.
Anyhow… I decided to post a review on their Passion Fruit Flavored Black Tea today.
Passion Fruit flavored products are gaining more and more popularity and TEA that is flavored with Passion Fruit is near the top of that list! I think this is GREAT NEWS!!! I have tried several Passion Fruit Flavored Teas and I must say this is probably one of my favorites!
This smells lovely…surely it’s Passion Fruit but you can still smell the Black Tea. It infuses fairly dark brown. The taste is juicy with hints of floral undertones to it. This is a VERY enjoyable cup and a nice flavored black.
Another great Design A Tea Experience!