Opus Rouge Rooibos

Tea type
Fruit Rooibos Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Berries, Grapes, Perfume, Sweet, Tart, Blueberry, Red Wine, Floral, Flowers
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Alex
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 5 min, 30 sec 6 oz / 177 ml

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  • “Made this one as a cold brew mixed with Teavana’s Peach Tranquility. Brewed for about 12 hours. I thought I would mix this one because I am not the hugest fan of it on its own, and the opus rouge...” Read full tasting note
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  • “So for anybody who was not already aware: yes, I did get the job at Teavana. Handily, it would seem – the manager practically begged me to stay interested when she called me for an interview, and...” Read full tasting note
  • “Bubblegum tea! lol I had just a bit leftover from the 2oz of this I purchased recently. I really didn’t enjoy it as much as I could remember. But it is still massively fruity and has a punch of...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I bought this on a whim at the boxing day sale. It smells extremely grapey on first smell, and tastes quite grapey as well. I don’t get the hints of vanilla, I do get quite a tart taste from it,...” Read full tasting note
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From Teavana

Inspired by the world’s best rich red wines, this most luxurious green rooibos blend is a symphony of sweet and fruity. The blush of red grapes, blackberry, cranberry and black currant blend beautifully, creating a scarlet red hue. Creamy madagascar vanilla, sweet orange and hibiscus flowers finish off heady, rich flights of fancy. SUPERFRUIT ENHANCED

Sweet and crisp grape, blackberry and cranberry flavor with a smooth vanilla finish.

Ingredients: Grapes, hibiscus flowers, green rooibos, grape slices, citrus peels, plum pieces (plum, rice flour), black currants, blackberries, natural and artificial flavoring, red currants, morello cherries, stevia leaves, vanilla pieces

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I picked this one up as Teavana are phasing it out and it’s 30% off, and I was also trying to get up to 500g to get the additional 10% off. Holy shit! They got me good! I’ve never bought that much tea in once place, and considering I was kind of weary of Teavana due to less than glowing reviews and the fact that all of their tea has way to much fruit and junk in it for me. I was actually shocked to see exactly how much non-tea ingredients they put in their teas, I wanted to try the spice of life oolong but I could barely see any oolong in it, you’d be lucky to get 2 leaves in a teaspoon.
They still somehow managed to con me into buying 500g, which doesn’t get you a lot there because of how weighed down their teas are. 150g of that was for a friend and she got the slender strawberry pu’erh which smelled amazing and I can’t wait to try.
I bought 7 different teas for myself and this was the 4th I’ve tried. I’ve only been impressed with one of them, the raspberry riot lemon mate, which was still only ‘good’, not amazing.
This tea has a good flavour. This is the first grape based tea I’ve had and I quite like it. The flavour is quite robust and covers up the rooibos so it tastes more like a herbal. There is one thing I can’t quite get past though. I know I over steeped this but I don’t think that contributed to it, maybe I just got a bad batch, but there is an overwhelming smell of sweaty gym socks! You can’t smell it in the dry leaf, only once it’s brewed, and you can smell it every time you take a sip. It doesn’t taste like gym socks at all, but it might as well. I am going to try this again at a lower brewing temp and less time and see if that gets rid of it.
I wonder if anyone else has found this….

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I recieved 2oz of this tea for free yesterday when I took my glass tumbler back into Teavana because of the recall. They swapped my old tumbler with a 14oz stainless steel tumbler plus the tea. I assumed it would be a less popular tea since they would be willing to give it away for free with the recall so I wasn’t too excited to try it out.

Instead of making my morning coffee this morning, I made this Opus Rouge instead and I must say, I was very surprised with the overall taste! I knew I wanted to make enough to drink a cup this morning (hot) and then put the rest in a pitcher for iced tea later. It tastes great both ways in my opinion! The iced is more enjoyable with the warm weather, though.

I boiled 3 cups of water and immediately steeped around 5 tsps in my Blue Infusion Tea Pitcher for 5 mins. I poured myself a delicious hot cup of tea in my new tumbler and put the rest in the fridge to pour over ice later. So good! I will be buying more!

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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A friend of mine picked up a few samples to try from Teavana when she went up north a few days ago. I really wish I had Teavana or David’s near me. Or maybe not, I’d probably spend too much money!

This is a beautiful dark red color, but worries me about the sour factor. I’m not against hibiscus but too many teas lately seem to rely too heavily on it really. Now that fall is pretty much here, I guess we’ll be seeing more spices. Yay! (Pumpkin Chai anyone??)

Wow. This is already sugared somehow, it seems many of Teavana’s tea are. I usually try to drink mine unsugared just because I like to drink a lot of tea and prefer not to ingest a ton of sugar through my drinks. Other than tea, I’m mainly a water person. Anyways…

There is a sour factor, but it’s pretty much nearly offset by whatever sugar is in the tea. It’s a little… “one note” for a tea. I was expecting a little more depth in the flavors. I bet this would be really good iced, I might try that once I finish my DT rose congou green that’s iced.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec

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When I first tried this at Teavana, they gave me a cup of hot, delicious, fruity, full-tasting tea that hinged on red wine. Without second thought, I ordered 2 ounces ASAP. As soon as the package entered my house, it was opened and the tea was steeped, producing a luscious red color. I ordered some rock sugar along with it, so I put about a teaspoon in the steeper along with it.

Lemme tell ya, it was good, but I was bit disappointed. The guy in Teavana must have put at least twice the suggested amount in there. So I brewed another cup, this time adding a little more tea and sugar, and it tasted a lot better. I’d suggest around 3 and a half teaspoons of tea and maybe a little over a teaspoon of sugar. The tea is full of fruit flavor, and I get a lot of grape and pomegranate, which masks the tea itself. I have yet to find the vanilla flavor that’s advertised. Yet still, this remains at the top of my list, and is like to stay there a while longer.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 15 sec

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I want to like this, but I don’t. Everything about it is cloying – the sweetness, the perfumey aspect, even the tart. I was having a really hard time identifying the flavours in this, beyond just berry, but yes, grape. It’s all just overwhelming and kind of sickly to me.

I can see how others might like this, but it’s definitely not for me.

Flavors: Berries, Grapes, Perfume, Sweet, Tart

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 6 OZ / 177 ML

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Red wine? At first I was like that’s ridiculous but then as I let it sit on my tongue a little longer I experienced that strange tartness you get from red wine… so maybe it’s not so ridiculous. However, the incredibly sweet undertones are too much for me. I also find the smell to be rather odd.

Flavors: Blueberry, Red Wine

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37 tasting notes

A red wine-inspired tea! This blend is a little more tart than I usually go for, but I really like it! Since it is on the tart side, I prefer it lightly sweetened. I also really enjoy it iced. Before Teavana was in Canada, I visited a store in New York and this is one the first 4 teas I ever bought and tried from Teavana. I was so excited to bring it back to Canada and show it off to my friends. It didn’t disappoint. It has a very full flavour and I can even get my husband (the non-tea drinker) to enjoy it in place of juice.

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Appearance: Deep red.. nearly purple hue
Aroma: Grape, Currant, Cherry, very fruity
Taste: Sweet grape juice, slightly tart cherry and grape notes. Some flowery flavors. A bit on the sweet side.

Flavors: Flowers, Grapes

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 6 min, 0 sec

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This is a rich-flavored, almost thick fruity tea. What I like about it is the wine-like body and the strong flavor of grapes (grapes are the first ingredient). Tartness is added by the use of Hibiscus flowers as the second ingredient; but it works. Most Teavana teas have far too much Hibiscus but this one has a nice balance. Very rich berry flavors. I think they could’ve left out the Stevia leaves, the tea would be sweet enough.

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2 tasting notes

This tastes like grape juice!

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more

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