243 Tasting Notes
Little splinters of Rooibos tea make up the dry tea blend; you can see small flecks of dried strawberry, but it is mostly rooibos tea. The dried leaves smell strongly like strawberry with a note of tea. The aroma of the brewed tea (hot, with no additives) smells strongly like strawberry with some citrus and peach aromas. The flavor is mild; rooibos with some strawberry and peach flavors. I brewed for a full six minutes which might have made the tropical fruits a little tart. However, I would call the tea mild, there is no overwhelming sweetness or tartness. Longer infusion time would probably make the tea more tart and adding sugar would make the tea more sweet.
Overall, I do not think this tea actually needs anything. It is pretty good in that it is mild with hints of tropical fruit flavors. I can see how this would make a nice blend with a green or a jasmine tea, but I think the tea was fine on it’s own.
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I almost feel as though I wasted much of my weekend as I received two tea orders (one more should be here tomorrow) and tried nothing new. In an attempt to rectify this, here is the Tazo Passion.
I was looking for a decaf because it is so late.The description of the herbal tea sounded good, like it would be fruity. The smell of the bag is faintly fruity with a hint of cinnamon. The brewed tea is dark red, and smells strongly of citrus and hibiscus. The flavor is very tart (I brewed hot with no additives), but not unenjoyable. Unfortunately, I think the tartness from the citrus and tropical fruit juice is overpowering almost all other flavors, I hardly taste anything else. Maybe I oversteeped it? I think the tea probably needs to be brewed with some more earthy tones, maybe a vanilla, to help round out the flavor and make it more palatable.
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I enjoy ginger, as long as it is not the pickled ginger you get with sushi, blegh, but fresh ginger, I enjoy very much. This smells like artificial ginger, very aromatic and sweet for no good reason. The smell is strong in the bag, for this reason I did an unreasonably fast steep (about a minute counting pouring the water into my cup). The aroma is even stronger in the brewed cup, which was what I feared. The flavor is green with a soothing burst of ginger as an aftertaste. Unfortunately, the aroma made the tea quite unenjoyable.
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Don’t have a lot of details this was made for me at work, thanks @nknotte7801, so I know it was hot with no additives. The tea had a pomegranate note to its fragrance, the tea itself was astringent though, not terrible considering pomegranates are not sweet, but not great.
Today being the cold and long day that it was, I was starting to get comfortable under some blankets watching TV while starting to fall asleep. It being barely 8pm, I decided that couldn’t happen. I brewed up some of my dirty chocolate chai with a slight twist: bring water to boil in a pot, add 1/2 tsp rock sugar, dissolve, add 2 tsps chocolate chai, let boil 3 minutes, lower temperature, add 1 tsp instant coffee (I know, I apologize, but desperate times call for desperate coffee), let cook one minute, add milk to taste, let warm through (about 20 seconds), strain and enjoy.
Blasphemous? Possibly. Delicious? Definitely. Best of all, I am wide awake and warm to the bone. Enjoy!
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Freakin love this! Not blasphemous at all! But even better things are coming for you in the chai department- you ain’t drank nothin’ yet! TEAhe;)
i am so excited for that chocolate chai, i feel i can deplete this stash now, haha :)
I think this one is good for a regular chai, not feeling the chocolate so much though.
I picked up the chocolate chai sample recently but I haven’t tried it yet…this is a good reminder to make a point to do that! Maybe tomorrow…
the chocolate in the adagio chocolate chai is VERY mild, there is only a slight chocolatey/malty aftertaste of chocolate, i would call it more chai with a little chocolate, but that’s probably too long of a name.
This is some sort of telepathy given the conversation I was having with Cofftea a few hours ago.
I will be adding some chocolate to my chai tonight to see what happens. Oh and its about 100 degrees F hotter here
chocolate and chai are universally wonderful, so everyone who has had them together always talks about them :). and it’s that hot out, wow, enjoy the chai, i probably couldn’t enjoy it as much if it was so hot…
Cinoi, when it’s hot steep the chai in 1/3 cup water, cool, and freeze. Once frozen, add 2/3 cup milk to a blender w/ the chai ice, and blend. Top w/ whipped cream? You can also add ice cream, but if you do I suggest making the chai ice 2x strength or the ice cream will dilute the chai flavor:)
@cofftea—That sounds wonderful!
@cofftea, definitely going to have to try this, should I aim to use plain chai or will the chocolate chai work?
Oh definitely use Mayan Chocolate Chai- it has me spoiled. That’s the only black based chai I’ll be drinking from now on:)
I get very excited by black and green tea mixes, this one was not the best I’ve had, but not bad either. The aroma of the bag is enticing, fragrant cucumber with a note of green, blended with the clean scent of cucumbers and peaches. The flavor of the tea is mostly green, I can taste a hint of black tea, but no cucumber or peach whatsoever.
Had hot with no additives and iced with no additives. I think adding sugar or honey would help to bring out the dulled cucumber and peach notes, but I will have to brew more and see.
