Grapefruit Granita

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Apple, Artificial Flavouring, Beet Root, Blackberry Leaves, Ginger, Green Tea, Marigold Flowers
Flavors
Ginger, Grapefruit, Spices, Sour, Apple, Bitter, Sweet, Tart, Cream, Pleasantly Sour, Bitter Melon, Citrus Zest
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Caffeine
Low
Certification
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Edit tea info Last updated by Perry Papadopoulos
Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 5 min, 45 sec 14 oz / 422 ml

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Looking for a little sophistication with your summer refreshment? Nothin’ a little granita can’t handle. Inspired by the famous semi-frozen Italian dessert, this blend makes for one classy iced tea. It’s got a delicate base of green tea, plus a burst of juicy grapefruit for a welcome kick of bitter citrus. Fresh, lively and invigorating, this tea might just taste even better than the real thing. Serve it with a splash of club soda at your next patio party and get ready to feel some serious chills…

Ingredients: Ginger, green tea, sweet blackberry leaves, apple, apple pom ace (apple pomace, citric acid), beetroot, grapefruit peel, marigold flowers, artificial grapefruit and cream flavouring.

Price per 50g: $9.98

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

26 Tasting Notes

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16 tasting notes

Probably my #3 favourite tea. I like that it’s a green tea, and for people that want green tea benefits without committing to the original taste this is a good, fruity, refreshing way to go!

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 5 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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82 tasting notes

Am I the only one who’s really into this tea? Today was my first time trying it hot, and it was definitely not what I was expecting. This tea had been sitting in my cupboard untouched since it came out because I was so apprehensive about ginger being the first ingredient, but lo and behold, I can hardly taste the ginger! The ginger taste that I do get is very fresh and sweet, pairing well with the tartness of the grapefruit. I don’t taste any green tea at all, but the tea is somewhat astringent. While I likely won’t be reaching for this one very often, I’m glad that it’s not the overwhelming disappointment I was expecting.

Flavors: Cream, Ginger, Grapefruit

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 4 min, 15 sec
Roswell Strange

Have you tried the new grapefruit tea yet? Personally I prefer the new one to this one, but if you liked this you’ll probably like the new one too! It’s called Grapefruit Squeeze :)

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1104 tasting notes

I had this iced and loved it. Heavy on the grapefruit which gives it an overall pleasantly sour taste which I found very refreshing. The grapefruit overpowers everything else which is fine by me because I love grapefruit. I can detect a nice hint of ginger in the mix which gives it a little depth of flavour. I really enjoyed it!

Flavors: Ginger, Grapefruit, Pleasantly Sour

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2955 tasting notes

Eww, this tastes like grapefruit. There’s a reason I don’t like grapefruits, and I see they’ve transferred its acrid bitterness to this blend. Tried an in-store sample; I will not be doing that again.

Flavors: Bitter, Bitter Melon, Citrus Zest, Grapefruit

Preparation
Iced
Crowkettle

Oh, geez. Sometimes it’s possible to be disappointed by flavouring accuracy (been there). I love how the flavour list makes it look like “bitter, bitter melon” just in case there wasn’t enough emphasis.

Arby

So bitter. It could have been drinkable, but no. They went and made it accurate to its name. Don’t think know that every single tea they release must cater to my tastes and not the rest of their customer base? lol

TheOolongDrunk

If you don’t like grapefruit, then why try a tea with the name ‘grapefruit’ in it?!

Arby

They offered it, I thought it might be citrusy. I don’t dislike grapefruit flavour so much as the bitter/acrid flavour that the fruit has. I’m in search of iced teas, so I’ll try anything fruity (even if I don’t think I\ll like it). Next year/in the future when I go looking for teas to buy for iced tea season, I can review my notes and I’ll know I didn’t like this one.

MrQuackers

Grape fruit juice is either sublime or it is horrible. If you take just the fruit, without any skin or rind, and you add sugar to it, it’s delicious. However once you add in the white pith under the peel or the stuff seperating the segments then you get a lot of bitterness.

MrQuackers

Just for comparison, I had freshly squeezed orange juice yesterday. In this case, the essential oils add to the taste of the orange juice (premium orange juice brands use these to keep their stored product fresh.)

Crowkettle

As someone who actually loves grapefruit but also lives with people who hate it, I find your documented unintended exposure extremely helpful. :)

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85
3 tasting notes

Well, it seems that I am the only one who loves this tea. But I love everything ginger or grapefruit to start with, so I thought is was a brilliant idea to mix these flavours together. I had this cold brew overnight and it’s the most refreshing beverage I have ever had. I drank it ‘’western style’’ without any sweetener or milk. Of course, it’s tart (on the bitter side), due to the grapefruit peel and I can really feel a creamy side to it. I also get a lot of ginger, wich is a plus in my opinion. I can aslo taste the apples a bit, but mostly I get a mix of ginger and grapefruit. The smell is to die for. I understand that it’s not appealing to everyone but I will personnaly enjoy my 100 grams.

Flavors: Apple, Bitter, Ginger, Grapefruit, Tart

Preparation
Iced

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127 tasting notes

I’m so confused by this tea. It’s too tart to drink in most forms. I tried it hot, I tried it iced, and then I had to add a generous helping of rock sugar to my iced tea after that. I cold brewed my recycled tea leaves in a bottle, and at least the resulting lightly-flavoured water wasn’t terrible. However, the only positive things I have to say are that the tea leaves turned my drink a very pretty pink, and the aroma – both before and after brewing – was wonderful.

Flavors: Grapefruit

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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59 tasting notes

I just crawled out of bed to be for work at 4am. I had cold brewed this over night and grabbed it on my way out the door.
Holy heck – this is being dumped. The flavour is a sharp ginger and grapefruit but more like the bitter rind than the actual fruit. There’s something else in there that I can’t put my finger on. It tastes sickly in my mouth and not at all refreshing. My stomach already feels off from getting up so early, otherwise I’d test another swig to try to figure it out.

Oh well – I’m shivering from lack of sleep so I think I’d do better with a cup of hot earl grey anyway.

Flavors: Bitter, Ginger, Grapefruit

Preparation
8 min or more 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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561 tasting notes

This was my third and last sample that I tried iced. I must say that I don’t like this tea. It tastes bitter to me but I do kind of get a grapefruit flavor from it.

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316 tasting notes

So I got a pitcher pack to try this one more time before giving up completely, and I tried it out in my new iced tea pitcher press. I had to add a lot of agave – and that stuffs expensive! But still, I don’t like this really at all. I’m tolerating it, because I don’t want to waste the tea, but it’s still very bitter and sour to me. Just like grapefruit. Which I don’t like either. Its slightly more tolerable with the agave but I just don’t like this tea in general.

Flavors: Bitter, Grapefruit, Sour

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 45 sec

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15575 tasting notes

Final of the new Summer Teas…

Drank this one iced, and I’ll say it right now – of the four new teas this one was overwhelmingly my least favourite. I just did. not. like. it.

As soon as I saw the ingredients for this one I had some concerns about it though. The key flavours are grapefruit, ginger, and cream on a green tea base – and while I don’t hate ginger and grapefruit as a pairing on principle I do think that it’s very important for something to sweeten them up because otherwise I don’t think they work well together. Everything just tastes very harsh and bitter, otherwise imo.

That’s exactly what happened with this one; it’s not so much that the green tea itself tasted bitter/burned but there was absolutely NO sweetness coming from the grapefruit. That absence of brightness/sweetness left a really harsh, pithy bitter taste in your mouth that kind of made me feel like I was chewing on grapefruit rinds. Gross! Also, the ginger is really, really strong and intense. Way too heavy handed, in my personal opinion. The final nail in the coffin is that the finish has a really pronounced, hibiscus tartness to it.

This one is just a really hard pass, for me.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Michelle

I don’t even like grapefruit so I’m not sure about this one…

Evol Ving Ness

Too bad. It sounded promising.

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