Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black/Floral
Where to Buy: AstroloTea
Tea Description:
An energetic dance of flavors to initiate the courageous and enterprising new beginnings of the Ram.
Every sign rules a different part of the body, Aries rules the head and the face. The Aries blend, a light and subtle flavor with tones of fruit and flowers, helps promote mental clarity, new beginnings, and fresh perspective.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
First thought when I saw this tea was YES! Chrysanthemums!
Over the summer, I discovered these delicious floral teas with Chrysanthemum in it. Wow. My taste buds squealed in delight!
This tea is a unique blend of floral, spices, black tea, and a few herbals sprinkled in for good measure. This tea looks amazing. The dry leaf mixture had such a nice sweet slightly savory/floral aroma. Really nice. I couldn’t wait to brew this up. I poured the entire sample I bought into my tea pot, added the water and let it steep for 4 minutes.
While this tea was steeping, I swear I was drooling. This tea smelled just so good!
Finally it was time to try it. Took my first sip and yes, there is the good stuff. This tea really gives me the “wow” factor I look for. There is a unique sweet taste with hints of floral notes and a slightly savory sage finish. The tea base is nice and gives the tea a nice background depth. There are also notes of lemon here and there. Such a silky like smooth tea. So rich and full of flavor! I can’t get enough!
What is fantastic is that when you order this tea, you can order it caffeinated or not. Of course I choose caffeinated. I need something to get me thru the 2pm hour! I was also able to steep this tea about 4 times before noticing a lack of flavor.
If you aren’t familiar with AstroloTea, take a moment and check out the site. The owner is amazing and has such a great variety of teas for everybody!
By the way, if anybody is following my epic adventure to sipdown my teas. . .This makes #9! Woohoo!
White Sage and Wild Mint Tea from Juniper Ridge
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Herbal
Where to Buy: Juniper Ridge
Tea Description:
Our Sage and Mint tea has the rich, earthy, minty flavor that made it a favorite tea for many of the Native American tribes and early settlers of the Southwest. Made from all-natural ingredients wildharvested in the bright, sunbaked, giant-boulder desert country of California.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
This is a very unique tea. I picked this up from one of my fellow SororiTea Sisters- thelastdodo a while ago. It is such a interesting sounding tea I just had to try it.
So I steeped this up per the instructions on the bag, 195F-3-5 minutes and threw in a few tea bags. I let it steep and then dumped in some ice for an iced tea. Took a sip. . .Wow, this is oddly refreshing!
When I opened the bag, I noticed that there was a sweet savory smell to the tea. There are only two ingredients to this one. . . sage and mint. Both flavors stand out strong and mingle together in an intriguing way. You pick up the savory aspects from the sage and the sweetness from the mint. Very nice and like I said, refreshing. This would be great if you are camping outdoors or just enjoying nature. Makes me want to plan a spur of the moment trip!
Can’t say this is a favorite or one that I will grab again and again. But I can say I am enjoying this. I know of a few tea friends that would probably enjoy this more than myself so I will share this with them.