Tea of Life

This one wasn’t too bad. It’s black and it’s got a rather nice fruity flavoring to it. It was not perfect though.

This was neither under- nor overwhelming. It’s a very generic fruit flavored black tea that I’ve seen done far better and far worse.

Good pick-me-up in the morning.

I made this tea quite strong since that was what I was in the mood for today and surprisingly, the mint flavor stood up well and wasn’t overpowered by the black tea.

Bagged
Aroma when Dry: heavy floral lavender, hints of sweet melon
After water is first poured: delicate floral, hints of sweetness
At end of steep: Lavender melon scented water
Tea liquor:
At beginning of steep:
At end of steep: clear
Staple? Type yes, prefer loose leaf, will look further for restock
Preferred time of day: evening, as needed medicinally
Taste:
At first?: very light lavender, closing on a fresh melon note
As it cools?: floral notes open, but do not really change in intensity
Additives used (milk, honey, sugar etc)? No
Lingers? Yes, very light buttery melon notes

I cold-brewed this tea again. This is now in my top 5 cold brew teas! So delicious, refreshing, and light. I love the slightly sweet berry taste to it. It isn’t tart either. mMmm.

This is delicious cold! I cold brewed 3 tea bags. This is so refreshing and fruity! Yummy!

Backlog: This is a surprisingly good tea! I had this in my travel mug on my way to work. I was expecting hibiscus, but it was just a pure white tea with pomegranate flavoring. It tastes like berries and cream. Delicious!

I am so surprised! For some reason, I thought it would have hibiscus and bleed red. There was no hint of that at all. It was a purely white tea with some flavorings! Delicious! Nice and light with the hint of fruitiness from the pomegranate.

A couple years ago I got this tea as a gift, I had a few cups then lost the tin and recently rediscovered it. The tea is still good, wrapped in its foil. The lavender does not taste as strongly as it might have fresh but it is still a good tea.

Perfect mint flavour. I actually love steeping a bag of this tea into hot chocolate for a great mix!

Found a bunch of tins of this for cheap at Home Goods, of all places. I have to admit, I only got this for the tin (same with its Wild Blueberry sister, as proven when I had to give all of it away because it has barley in it and I’m gluten-free). It appears to be discontinued — or at least, aside from the tin sitting on my desk at work, I cannot find proof it exists anywhere, including the company website.

That’s disappointing, because it’s really good. Like another tea I drank recently, it smells like orange soda when you open the tin. The scent is really, really strong — like burn your nose if you get too close strong — but still good.

Flavor-wise, it’s pretty tasty despite having hibiscus (I think; like I said, the tin’s at work, but there’s something that tastes an awful lot like hibiscus in it). It’s nice and sweet, but sort of tangy and citrusy at the same time. Somehow it makes you feel like it’s waking you up a little even though there’s no caffeine. It’s great in my cup toward the end of the night shift.

I’ve seen this tea in the store before but I always gave a it pass thinking that it was just another fruit tea that used a bunch of hibiscus to replicate the tart fruit flavours of the pomegranate. It wasn’t until I got a few bags of this tea in a swap that I was proven wrong. Firstly when I added the water there was no tell-tale bleed of red – the tea stayed a soft, pale-golden hue the entire time it steeped.

The flavour is lightly sweet and fruity – I wouldn’t say it’s quite real pomegrante, but it’s a heck of a lot closer than the hibiscus blends usually are. It’s still quite a natural-tasting tea, delicate and subtle. It would be lovely iced, I think.

Still as tasty on the second steeping as it was on the first!