Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: iHeartTeas
Product Description:
Fresh cut spearmint in a blend with sweet Chinese Sencha green tea infused with the essence of key lime and champagne.
Taster’s Review:
Recently, 52Teas announced their “Rescued from Retirement” program which enables other companies to bring back some of their blends. I was thrilled with the prospect of being able to try some of 52Teas blends that were released before I “discovered” the company. This Champagne Mojito is the perfect example. Released the week of April 5, 2009 – about seven months before my first order with 52Teas – this was a tea I probably would not have been able to try if it were not for the Rescued from Retirement program.
And I’m really glad I got to try it, because it is yummy. The green tea base is a Chinese Sencha that is sweet and a little creamy/buttery. It has a fresh taste but not very vegetative, and in the case with this particular tea, I think that is a good thing. I think that a more vegetative tasting green tea would interfere with the delicate taste of the champagne.
These ingredients compliment each other very well. I find that the crisp, clean taste of the spearmint brings out some of the sweeter notes of the lime, complimenting the sweet, delicate features of the champagne. The lime is zesty with just enough tart flavor to cut through some of the mintier tones of the spearmint. It doesn’t taste too minty, it doesn’t taste too tart, and it doesn’t taste too sweet. It is a very pleasing harmony of flavors. This is delicious served hot, but, it is even better when iced. It is incredibly refreshing and thirst-quenching.
Many thanks to Rachel from iHeartTeas for bringing this one out of retirement. This tea appears to be sold out at her Tea Trade store, but, she has many other excellent teas from 52Teas available.
Organic Sencha Mint from Eden Foods
Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Purchase: Eden Foods
Product Description:
A unique green tea with two classic herbal favorites. Premium organic Sencha tea from the historic tea area of Uji, Japan expertly blended with organically grown Egyptian spearmint and peppermint. A delightfully delicious combo of mildly sweet, cool minty flavors and the delicate smoothness of green tea. Refreshing, relaxing yet uplifting with 41 percent less caffeine than brewed coffee. Take time for tea, and enjoy the health benefit from antioxidant catechins in green tea, and volatile oils of mint.
Organic Sencha Green Tea Leaves (Camellia sinensis), Organic Peppermint Leaves, Organic Spearmint Leaves
Tasters Review:
I’ve said it before and I will say it again and again…I LOVE MINTY TEAS!
I’m often on the go and can’t always enjoy a cup of loose leaf especially a good minty one at that. Organic Sencha Mint from Eden Goods is the way to go while on the go! It’s in a bag but the flavor is tremendous! The sencha tastes more like a cucumber type tasting green than a buttery or grassier green tea taste. The mint is great! I can taste the spearmint a bit more than the peppermint. It’s quite powerful and very refreshing!
As I am a mint freak – tho – I do like this tea!
Peppermint Herbal Infusion from Hampstead Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Herbal Tisane
Where to Buy: Hampstead Tea
Product Description:
We’ve enhanced peppermint’s traditionally renowned digestive properties by pairing it with spearmint. Cool, refreshing and soothing.
Naturally caffeine free.
Ingredients: Fairtrade peppermint and spearmint leaves
Taster’s Review:
In the evening, I like to reduce my caffeine intake so that I’m not bouncing off the walls when I should be sleeping. That’s when I turn to refreshing herbal tisanes such as this Peppermint Herbal Infusion from Hampstead Tea.
This tisane is a blend of organic peppermint and organic spearmint. It tastes crisp and clean. It’s a pretty simple blend, and it tastes pretty much like I’d expect it to, it tastes minty! I also appreciate that this is completely organic and it’s fair trade too. I like that I can not only enjoy this tisane, but feel good about drinking it.
Even though it’s a simple pairing of two types of mint leaves, sometimes the simplest tisanes are the most pleasurable. I like this for its simplicity. It is tasty hot or iced … and it’s even tasty if I happen to forget my teacup on the kitchen counter, get busy doing something else, and then come back to a lukewarm cup. It still tastes great!
Sunset in Seattle Tea from Market Spice
Tea Type: Herba;
Where To Buy: Market Spice
Product Description:
One of our sweetest and most popular herbal teas, Sunset in Seattle is a blend utilizing a myriad of herbs that are soothing and mellow. Ingredients: Rosehips, Vanilla, Chamomile, Spearmint, Raspberry, Lemon Grass, Hyssop and herbs. Contains no sugar and is caffeine free.
Tasters Review:
Sunset in Seattle Tea from Market Spice looked much like the picture above thru the see-thru bag it came in but there was white powder heavily throughout the blend. For me not knowing too much about this tisane before trying it I was confused by the powder ingredient but quickly released it was the vanilla within the mix.
The vanilla ‘powder’ is powerful and very nice smelling. The overall aroma consists of Chamomile, Mint, and Vanilla. The color post-infusion is a cloudy gray-orange-yellow type color. The taste is minty but floral…Herbally yet smooth…lemony yet vanilla….this is odd but lovely. It’s interesting and surprising! I ended up REALLY liking this one! The aftertaste is minty yet sweet! Opposites completely attract in this case…and it makes me grin from ear to ear!
I especially liked the vanilla and minty notes!
Green Peace from Chad’s Chai & Tea Co.
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Chad’s Chai & Tea
Product Description:
The Moroccans liked to blend green tea with mint, and we couldn’t agree more wholeheartedly! Refreshing and calming, Green Peace is an inspired blend of extraordinary green tea and spearmint leaf. It can be enjoyed by itself or with food, and simply must be tried iced!
Taster’s Review:
I tried this before knowing anything about it except for its name. I could smell the mint, although it was not overwhelming. When I tasted it, I could taste the mint, but, it didn’t taste like a typical “Moroccan Mint” to me… it tasted like there was something a little different.
And there is! Where many mint green teas settle for either peppermint or spearmint, Chad’s Chai & Tea chose to use both mints to create a real depth of flavor. But even with two different types of mint, the mint flavor is not overwhelming here, and I am able to taste the Chinese green tea.
Although the website for Chad’s Chai & Tea does not specify what type of Chinese green tea is used for this blend, it looks like a gunpowder green tea. The tea has a light, creamy butter taste in the background which when combined with the minty flavors, comes across as a very creamy mint taste. Delicious!
This tea tastes invigorating, but there is a certain soothing property to it as well. I feel more relaxed as I continue to sip it.
With mint teas, sometimes they are just too MINTY… but, this one is just right. A nice balance between green tea and mint flavors, and I like the blending of the two types of mint. A very pleasant mint green tea!