Blood Orange

Tea type
Fruit Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Artificial, Citrus, Hibiscus, Medicinal, Orange, Sour, Tart, Chalk, Floral, Tangy, Citrusy, Citrus Fruits, Citrus Zest, Drying, Cinnamon, Dried Fruit, Fruity, Spices, Blood Orange, Rosehips, Cranberry, Wood, Orange Zest
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 6 min, 15 sec 23 g 12 oz / 359 ml

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  • “I’m pretty sure that my brain checked out today as it took me at least six times to type ‘orange’ correctly to find this tea. Anyway, this was a sipdown. I didn’t find this too orange-y no matter...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Finished up my sample of this last night but was too comfy in bed reading to get up to write about it. The orange, such that it is, is tasty, but this last experience confirms that it isn’t enough...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This “tea” kind of makes me angry. So this will be a sad review. Apologies, in advance! It’s not juicy, yummy, tangy blood orange at all. It’s dusty, chalky, vaguely orange-flavored, chewable...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Received this in sample form from Adagio. Didn’t love it the first time I tried it – that was hot, steeped 9+ minutes because I forgot about it… This, I’ve iced with a bit of sugar and added a...” Read full tasting note
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From Adagio Teas

The blood orange is a culinary favorite, with its deep vibrant color and sweet, tangy flavor. A perfect ingredient for a refreshing herbal blend! Our Blood Orange tea pairs blood orange peels with hibiscus flowers and rose hips for a naturally sweet, caffeine-free flavor. Rich, hearty and tangy, with a good balance of orange peel dryness and fruit juiciness.

Ingredients: Orange, Rose Hips, Hibiscus & Natural Orange Flavor

About Adagio Teas View company

Adagio Teas has become one of the most popular destinations for tea online. Its products are available online at www.adagio.com and in many gourmet and health food stores.

84 Tasting Notes

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1220 tasting notes

I love blood oranges. I love tea. Teavana’s Tarocco Ruby Orange is one of their only teas that doesn’t disappoint me. I prefer that one to this one, hands down, in an herbal blood orange tea battle.

This just tastes sour. Nothing else. It smells so good, but it just doesn’t deliver. Oh and when it was first brewed it REALLY smelled like cereal, which creeped me out. I might give it another try and steep it a minute or so longer, or maybe use a bit more. I used a half tablespoon, knowing that Adagio recommends just one, which to me is not enough for a big chunky herbal.

My friend has not led me astray in all the other teas she gave me to try, so I hope I can work something out with this one, especially since it’s my favorite citrus fruit involved!

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec
KeenTeaThyme

I too don’t care for this one on its own. But blended with lemon or something (like my Vampire Lemonade!) it’s much, much better.

momo

I’ve mixed the tarocco orange one with some kind of lemony tea before (strawberry lemonade I think) and that was good, especially iced. It’s hard to drink something straight tart like that on its own most of the time, but for some reason I can manage it with the other one, probably because the orange is more prevalent and not just TART TART TART.

momo

(btw I bookmarked the Vampire Lemonade for future interest!)

KeenTeaThyme

PM me if you want a free sample. I always have this one hand. My husband, Mom, and sister-in-law require this whenever I see them. :)

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176 tasting notes

Now this one I really forgot I had. It was unopened in the back of my cupboard. It was one of my first loose teas… it came with the Adagio IngenuiTEA herbal sampler gift set that was my introduction to the world of loose leaf tea. I bought another packet for iced tea for the summer… and promptly forgot about it.

I’m not a big fan of hot fruity teas, but I was in the mood for something different tonight. It tastes like… warm orange juice. Which isn’t great. This rating is mostly for the iced version.

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 0 sec

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431 tasting notes

I clearly see all of the ingredients and they are colorful. And look like dried fruit. This kind of smells like orange. I steeped for a couple of minutes or so. I’t brewed up to a light orange color. I will be experimenting with times. But this tastes like orange with a bite. And I think It’s good.

TeaEqualsBliss

I have pondered ordering this. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be too tart or too fruity. If one usually don’t like tart/fruity herbals…is this the better of the bunch or more mellow or the sourpuss type that one would or should or tend to stay away from? Just Curious

silvermage2000

Well I hear that raspberry patch and the summer strawberry in the adagio herbal section are not too sour. On this blood orange I used a short steeping time so I’t was not extremely tart. Thanks for replying to my post.

TeaEqualsBliss

Thanks for the suggestions/feedback – they help!!!! :)

LENA

it was pretty tart when I steeped it…but then again, I did it for the full amount of time.

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2891 tasting notes

Was a really ruby red after the full 7 recommended mins, but too tart for my personal preferences…little grenadine and a sugar cube took the edge off. I can see this iced with ginger ale come summer.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 7 min, 0 sec

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187 tasting notes

I had this tea as part of the ThinkGeek’s/Adagio’s Tea Sampler… Awful. At best it was bitter, you can however save your investment and make it as iced tea. Most tea that has too much of one flavor can be ‘saved’ and then enjoyed as iced tea, perhaps because we cant taste cold things as well.

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Backlogging.

I got this a few years ago, in the tea of the month thing hubs got for me one Christmas. I liked it the first couple times I made it, but then I kind of forgot it in the cupboard. By the time I rediscovered it, I think it was too old – I didn’t like it after that. I always drank it iced.

So this last weekend, I dumped it all in a pan and simmered it on the stove for awhile to scent the house. It smelled awesome :D

Preparation
Boiling

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I got this tea as a bonus extra in a swap from KittyLovesTea. I’m so glad she put it in, because it’s probably not one I would have ordered myself, but it was really rather lovely.

The colour was very striking, a really deep red colour. It was sweet without being sickly, and the aroma was lovely. I polished off the pot pretty quickly.

2nd steep of ten minutes, the colour had faded to a pinky colour now, but it still had a very pleasant aroma and enough taste to make it a worthwhile drink.

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 0 sec
KittyLovesTea

Glad to see you liked it. :)

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2 tasting notes

I LOVE this tea, hot or iced – I make it double strength, and then dilute to taste – I will buy this again and again!

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more
Starfevre

Do you use sweetener? I find the hibiscus too tart/sour if I don’t.

merko

yes – I use Sugar, or Sweet & Low, or Splenda, or what ever I have!

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81 tasting notes

Another arrived this its Blood Orange on to take the pulpit or the chopping block…honestly its quite on the chopping block:( I really expected a much fuller and vibrant flavor, the tartness of fruits, smell of citrus and roses that can rival Teavana’s herbal blends. Its quite to mute, near to a gummy vitamins than kid’s aspirin , I can notice a chalkiness yet still be able to drink quite well provided it has cooled a little. Despite its shortcomings, I can say with a bit of ingenuity like an addition of a little fruit juice or some sugar can make this blend quite drinkable. I say enjoy this tea but certainly it needs a bit of work to rough out the edges!

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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44 tasting notes

I finished my sample from Adagio today and I can’t say I’ll be getting more. It’s not bad- just rather unremarkable. I prefer other fruit tisanes to this one. I can’t review how it tastes warm because I only did iced, but I purposely avoided it hot. It definitely has this orange kool-aid, high c orange, or other sugary artificial orange drink aspect going on. Warm orange kool-aid just doesn’t appeal to me, so I opted for all iced.

It works rather well iced- very refreshing and citrus-y with a little bit of tartness from hibiscus (you know, the thing that just has to show up everywhere!). I blended this one a couple of times with honeybush vanilla from Adagio and it worked quite well to create a liquid creamsicle like flavor.

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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