Tisane Information:
Leaf Type: Rooibos
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Taster’s Review:
I received this Spicy Orange Rooibos Blend from Tea of Life as part of the African Rooibos Tea Collection Gift Set. It includes 12 tea sachets with four different varieties (3 of each variety): the Spicy Orange that I’m trying today, as well as Original Spice, Passion Fruit Mango and unflavored Rooibos. I’ll review the other flavors at another time. But for this evening, I was in the mood for an orange spiced tisane … and this seemed to fit the bill.
This has a really lovely orange and spice flavor. The orange tastes sweet and a little tangy, and the spices are warm. This isn’t a spicy tisane, it’s gentle and warm.
The sweetness of the rooibos comes through too, it’s almost a honey-esque note that reminds me more of honeybush than rooibos, and since I tend to prefer honeybush over rooibos, I’m not complaining one bit about that. The sometimes sour wood taste of rooibos isn’t there, and I’m not complaining about that either. I taste a light nutty tone in the background, and that, along with the aforementioned honey note, is all that I taste from the rooibos.
Mostly what I taste here is the orange and spice. It’s a treat to sip on a chilly evening like tonight!
Organic White Tea Blackberry from Tea of Life
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White
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Tea Ingredients:
Organic White Tea and Organic Blackberry Pieces with Blackberry Flavor.
Taster’s Review:
I am usually someone who turns my nose up at bagged tea. That’s because I find that the bagged tea is usually inferior to loose leaf. However, I must say that the teas that I’ve been tasting from Tea of Life have been really impressive. And these are sacheted teas!
And the latest tea that I’ve tasted from Tea of Life is this Organic White Tea Blackberry. This is really, REALLY good. The blackberry flavor is really well defined and doesn’t taste artificial. It tastes like I ate a fresh blackberry – bursting with juicy flavor! – every time I take a sip. Sweet, true to the fruit flavor. Delicious!
And the sweet, delicate, somewhat earthy quality of the white tea marries nicely with the abundant blackberry flavor. They are balanced well – with enough blackberry flavor so that there’s no doubt what I’m tasting, but, not so much that it tastes like blackberry punch and not tea. I can taste the white tea here.
I received this tea sachet as part of the Organic Teas Natural Tea Pyramids gift package. The description of this tea gift package in the Tea of Life brochure says this:
A beautifully packed gift of tea. Contains 4 different Organic teas in biodegradable pyramid tea bags which are individually packed in pyramid shape boxes.
This is a really fun tea gift! The tea sachets are packaged very elegantly in slender pyramids, and there are four different teas (a black tea, a green tea, this white tea, and a rooibos blend) – something like this would be ideal for someone who is new to exploring tea, or would also be great for travel.
A really yummy tea!
English Breakfast Tea from Tea of Life
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
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Tea Description:
A Fine Black Tea from the World renown Dimbula Tea Growing District of the Central Ceylon. Enjoy this wonderful tea to a healthier life overall.
Taster’s Review:
The first thing I notice about this English Breakfast Tea from Tea of Life isn’t the tea itself but the packaging. As I’ve said before, I’m a sucker for eye-catching packaging, and these “Pop Art” tins from Tea of Life are gorgeous! This particular tin has an Indian Floral style print on it. Beautiful!
And this is a really nice English Breakfast tea. It has a hearty, robust flavor that would take to the additions of milk and honey well, if you care to add them, or if you want something with a little more edge to it, take it straight!
It is a full-flavored tea with hints of malty tones. The sip starts off with a sweet note, followed by some earthy tones that evoke thoughts of leather. About mid-sip there is a hint of citrus that comes through, and this citrus-y note offers a slight “tang” in the aftertaste. It’s an enjoyable tea.
There is a moderate amount of astringency to this tea, but there is no bitterness – although, I’d take care not to oversteep it. Because it’s a bagged tea, I recommend steeping it for not longer than 2 1/2 minutes. But, even though this is a bagged tea, it’s very tasty, and while I’m not usually crazy for a bagged tea, this one impresses me.
This is my first tea that I’ve tasted from this company, but it won’t be the last. The cool artwork on the tin drew me in to this tea … but the flavor will keep me coming back.