Peach Apple Crisp

Has not super thrilled about this hot, but decided to dump it over some ice and add some sugar and it makes a really nice iced peachy tea! Glad I decided to do that. I love iced peach tea!

I have to assume that the sample I have is of this tea, as there are no others with the same name. Sadly, not really enthralled with this one. Either it has lost a bunch of flavour, or wasn’t great to begin with. I did oversteep, so it was astringent, but I really couldn’t pick out much flavour. I have a few more cups’ worth to check if I can get anything out of a properly-steeped cup, but I don’t have high hopes.

This tea is about what i expected… pretty good. I have given up on some of the expectations I have when it says words like ‘Crisp" or “cobbler”. The flavor is good solid black tea with the fruitiness of peach and apple. I didn’t sense hibiscus which is good since I don’t enjoy hibiscus very much. The fruit flavors could have been a bit stronger but it remains a pleasant tea.

This is another swap sample that got buried and was just re-discovered this week. I find this to be a very unique tea concept…I don’t think I’ve ever had a tea with both apple and peach flavorings in it and I’ve also never had a black/rooibos blend. It smelled really sweet and fruity while it was steeping and I started to get excited. Unfortunately, the flavor just doesn’t live up. If they had left out the rooibos, I think this could have been great. It has really nice apple and peach flavor with just a touch of warm cinnamon. But the wash of woody rooibos in the aftertaste is completely ruining the experience for me.

Tasting a tea I took from the Lewis & Clark teabox. This looks like a decent enough black tea but the flavor is a bit odd. It tastes like a sweet barbeque lapsang souchong… I’m not sure if it’s from the black tea itself or the TINY bit of rooibos in the blend. Not actually smoky but the flavor is unexpected! Only a hint of fruity flavor for a second. No cinnamon. It has that cardboard black tea base flavor. This is too bad as the blend sounds like a nice idea but it doesn’t result in anything I’d want to drink again. Nothing works here. And I like smoky teas too.
Steep #1 // few min after boiling // 4 min

From the Lewis and Clark TTB.

This has a nice, pleasant apple-y aroma. I can taste both the black and rooibos easily and mostly just the apple flavor, which could be stronger. I don’t get much peach or cinnamon, though, and these could be much stronger as well.

Lewis & Clarke TTB

I’ve not been a huge fan of The Persimmon Tree’s teas in the past, but I popped open a sample of this one and it smells quite tasty, so I thought I’d give it a try! The dry leaf is mostly black tea with some red rooibos and rose petals mixed in for dramatic effect. It smells somewhat tart and quite apple-y in an apple juice kind of way. There are no instructions, so I did a 3 minute steep at 200 degrees.

Once the tea is brewed, I still smell quite a bit of apple with maybe a little peach in there? I can also smell a bit of cinnamon and something resembling butter. This tea tastes… odd. It’s almost smoky, and I don’t really get any fruit from it. There’s a baby hint of apple near the end, and a touch of cinnamon, but otherwise this is nowhere near any kind of fruit crisp… :(

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One of the biggest problems with being Gluten free is lack of certain favorite desserts from my childhood, my mom used to make the most delicious apple or peach crisps for me. Peach Apple Crisp by The Persimmon Tree Tea Company is a blend of Biodynamic Black Loose-Leaf Tea, Organic Nilgiri Loose-Leaf Tea, Organic Assam Loose-Leaf Tea, Organic Orange Peel, Fair Trade Organic Rooibos, Roses, Organic Hibiscus, Safflower, and Natural Flavors, a sizable list of ingredients! The aroma smells pretty varied, there are notes of roses, delicate peaches and apples, a touch of citrus, a bit of woody rooibis, a tiny bit of tart hibiscus, and lastly a sweet malty and caramel finish. It does not really smell like a crisp, but it does smell sweet and fruity, so I enjoy sniffing it.

The brewed leaves are delightfully sweet, there are notes of apples and peaches (real fruit, not candy or fake fruit, always a big plus!) there is also a rich caramel and malt aroma with a tiny bit of rose at the finish. The liquid without it’s leaves is richly malty with accompanying notes of caramel, wood, and fresh peaches and apples. The fruit smells more like cooked fruit than fresh fruit, giving it a bit of a crisp feel.

Tasting the tea, it starts off with a blend of malt, caramel, and woody notes, this gives it a bit of an oatmeal themed crisp crust. This transitions to fairly mild apple and peach with a hint of citrus and an aftertaste of roses. If I close my eyes and imagine I can almost taste the crisp, but with about half as much sugar (which can really easily be fixed with a bit of sweetener) this is one of those teas that is really good at capturing the idea of a crisp without tasting exactly like one. I like it, the tea is a good dessert tea without being overly sweet so it could be a substitute for a dessert or a companion to a sweet dish.

For blog and photos: http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-persimmon-tree-tea-company-peach.html

YUM! That’s how I’d describe this tea – whether you drink this tea hot or cold the fruity floral flavors are light and refreshing. One of my favorite teas! Read the full review here: http://www.abbisiler.com/tea/peach-apple-crisp-persimmon-tree-tea

Tea # 8 from the tea box. Was not expecting rose petals! It’s a good tea but I’m not tasting any apples or… crisp. The roses over power them too much. I’m giving it a lower score because of this. Maybe if they renamed it rose apple crisp and upped the amount of apples I would reconsider a higher score.