Naturavita

2024 sipdown no. 16

Thank you from Martin for this one! I didn’t make any notes, but I recall this being a really lovely fruit tea, quite enjoyable and really nice especially considering it was a bagged tea.

These fruit teas from Naturavita are really great and I would love to both I’ve tried for my cupboard.

TTB tea! Now this is a nice fruit tea! It tastes fresh and appley. I’m really enjoying this cold! It’s like drinking apple juice!

I don’t know what else to say but that this is one of the best fruit tisanes I have ever had.

Hibiscus makes me reach for sugar and I don’t really even bother with hibiscus except iced and very sweet. I thought tart just really wasn’t my bag.

This is tart without puckering and really full flavored, and is the most palatable tisane of this type I can ever remember tasting. I have absolutely no need of sugar with this. This is delicious.

(Ashman said it is delicious with lemon biscotti! I made a cup for him as well.)

Thank you, Martin!

2023 sipdown no. 108

This smells like apple cider! Making (and enjoying) apple cider is a big thing at home (perhaps also along the east cost of the US?), so the scent of this really reminds me of home ❤. Even now that we’re in western Canada, we pick the apples from Lexa’s family’s yard and make apple cider.

Onto the tea! There is an incredible natural sweetness here that is also reminiscent of cider. There is of course the apple and I would say the pear is also quite nice here (though falls more into the background compared to the apple). There are whispers of tartness that make me think of plums as well. This tea is really quite lovely and I wouldn’t mind having this one around — especially given how easy it is in teabag form. Thank you Martin for invoking memories of home when you shared this tea!

This tea is definitely fully fruity. And it made to the TTB, so I am looking forward to more tasting notes! As full-ness of fruity notes I mean it is definitely not water, rather it tastes almost like drinking some kind of juice, very mouthcoating and keeps a long fruity aftertaste.

When we have pleasantly sour flavor, we should add pleasantly tart because this is what this tea seems to be about. It’s quite tart, but afterall, chokeberry and black currant are tart fruits, but the majority of fruits is an apple, and it seems that ripe red apples were used, it is tamed and some fruity sweetness prevail more than tart. The black currant is noticeable in flavour as well and probably the most in the aftertaste. Chokeberries are adding that tart note instead of hibiscus, which is in too, but not in the first place. Definitely worth the money.

It seems I caught some sickness. Sore throat all day and when I swallow anything, it’s like a saw in my throat. Yuck.

So, I opened my box of herbals and I have been checking the teas. Many of them are having relaxing properities which is something I don’t need right now (though work is stressful as well); but then I found this one. Ginger tea is helpful while having those symptoms (at least it’s said so, here), and lemon certainly won’t hurt either.

It doesn’t color the brew much, but certainly the ginger kicks in aroma as well as in the taste; and the lemon isn’t luckily too sour and it is making rather a citrusy background for the ginger.

I have no idea where I got this tea bag (it was only one), but honestly I think it’s one of free samples I got from my CGFoods order.

It has finally cooled off this evening! To celebrate, I’m having Pear Apple Plum gifted by Martin.

It smells exactly like red apples/apple juice foremost, mixed with the strongest pear aroma I’ve encountered in a tea and a deep jammy-tart berry/blueberry/vaguely plummy/hibiscus base. It tastes mostly of tart-verging-sour hibiscus.

A thought. IMO, tartness is a bright something experienced on the tongue, short-lived. Sourness is a sharper, more gripping feel that pinches somewhere in the back of the mouth/lower jaw/salivary glands.

Normally with flavored teas, it drives me nuts that I can’t taste the flavor, only smell it. Here, I can find some of it hiding in the hibiscus before it pops out again as I swallow.

This was a pleasant tea I’d recommend to people with a love of strong orchard fruit notes. For me this was a too cloyingly apple and in general intense with that jammy-tart profile but very well done, especially the pear flavoring!

Orange Cinnamon Turmeric + other stuff like hibiscus, ginger, rosehips and apple

Tart, juicy orange flavor with just enough orange peel taste and blackberry leaf sweetness to make this feel damn near fresh orange juice. Fresh, not Tropicana. Fresh. Warm, sweet, gentle cinnamon. Turmeric — notsomuch, maybe an earthy base tone. This would be better had on a winter Saturday morning to brighten the soul but here we are on a late summer evening. Very drinkable, chuggable even.

Thank you, Martin!

Side note: tea plants have rebounded quickly from the aphid infestation.

A sipdown! (M: 6, Y: 6)
A sad sipdown! I gave others so many, that I just drank single bag of this lovely tea. This time was red apple a bit more prominent in the flavour, but that long aftertaste I notice is definitely, fresh, buttery pear.

Why I have bought the small box only?
I think I put it into TTB

All three fruits I know well. We have them as fruit trees on our garden. And slowly, they start to bloom in these days. It seems that spring finally reached us as well.

I don’t know exactly, why I have chose this in my CGFoods order, maybe it was cheap, maybe I just wanted new wrappers to my tea bag wrapper collection… maybe I was actually interested in flavour.

Anyway, taste wise it is a very good blend. It is full of pears, the soft, buttery ones and tasted genuine and quite complex. Add red apples… and their sweetness. They aren’t much present in other ways. The last… plums. Sadly, I haven’t noticed them much this time. Maybe a little in aftertaste. Maybe they need a little shorter steeping than I did. Because last time they were a little bit more prominent. Maybe all tea bags aren’t same.

But in conclusion? I am super happy with this tea and its flavours. They are kind of real, genuine and most importantly, they do not taste artificial. And it is not tart and no heart-burn. And it is not oversweet too.

A free tea bag with my order from CGFoods — sorry, but I need to drink those teas quickly, right? Haha. Thank you Petra from CGFoods for including it in.

Anyway, it is 8 p.m. here and I really wanted some tea, but I have wished for som low-none caffeine one. I went through one box, second box… and then I saw this one. I thought it is quite uncommon flavour profile. Well, there are 15 teas with this flavour here on Steepster, considering only English name. With this one, at least 16. Uncommon for me for sure, because no pomegranate trees over here.

Anyway, I have steeped it for long (they suggest 10 minutes, but I think I took it off somewhere between 5 and 10)

Took a sniff and… raspberry? That sounds weird. Second sniff… it is actually Nar, so called pomegranate in English. Maybe the aroma just needed to settle down a bit, maybe my nose was playing with me, because it has got deep raspberry color, maybe hibiscus. And then, even some cranberry aroma peeks in.

In terms of flavors it is somehow expected fruity combo. Partially it tastes like red wine, then the pomergranate hits and in the end cranberry tartness. It isn’t watery at all and instead it is rather nicely “robust”.

It’s fine. Intended flavours are well done, it’s not watery and it’s not too tart.

So yeah. I bought lots of tea again. And moreover, all in tea bags! Shame on me, as a tea enthusiaist. But my tea bag wrapper collection needs some love and fellow tea bag (for short) collector had a discount thanks to her blog entry. I could bought some loose-leaf. But maybe next time! Thank you CGFoods for fast delivery and a few free tea bags in!

Anyway, I have deciced for this one as first because turmeric in, I said just two days ago I am not that fan of it. But it sounded interesting in combination with cinnamon and orange.

The orange was fresh, fruity and pulpy, as I do like it. The cinnamon was sweet-like and not bitter at all and complements the orange well. Sadly, the turmeric is not present in flavour at all.

Luckily, I haven’t noticed much of hibiscus — not even in colour of the tea. In color it was rather yellow grapefruit like and cloudy.

They suggest 10 minutes steep and I did long steep… however no idea how long. But it was enjoyable cup for sure. However, the turmeric is missed.