135 Tasting Notes
My husband found an envelope of this tucked away in the back of a cabinet. There was enough left for one cup of tea. This used to be my favorite of the Teavana black teas; I have moved on since that time. Now the black tea tastes a bit substandard (I now drink a lot of Rishi pu-erh) and the bergamot is light. Of course, this is a FINAL sip-down and the tea is old, even though it was in a zipper pouch. It’s really too bad Starbucks killed those stores.
Flavors: Bergamot, Dust
Wonderful aroma and a solidly good flavor when steeped. Yes, you definitely can smell and taste the saffron! This tea is not too expensive so I was pleasantly surprised. Better than another much more expensive saffron-green that hypes that it is from a small business and helps people in Afghanistan. This tea is just solidly what it says it is.
Flavors: Saffron
Love this tea! Drank 2 cups every morning until I ran out. The advertising is that the flavor has complex layers of cacao, raisin, and black cherry. It does! Finally a tea that tastes precisely as it should. This tea is rich and sophisticated, and if I can’t get another bag, I’ll cry.
Flavors: Cacao, Raisins
This is a good-tasting detox tea. I polished off the box over the last week as I have one of those killer Summer colds; there is no part of me that is not infected and does not ache! I honestly think this helped move the virus along. I normally take supplements including mushrooms so I was shocked at the severity of this virus…but the tea actually seemed to help. I was drinking one-two cups per day.
Flavors: Spearmint
I am drinking Earl Grey Cream from Spice and Tea Exchange right now. It’s pretty yummy! I miss the smell of Teavana, all the teaware to look at, and the milk oolong that was always sitting on the warmer near the front.
Thank you for letting me know! I wasn’t aware of that tea. I miss the beautiful stores, especially the one at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. The tea sold itself there. At other smallet stores, the staff was a bit pushy and I started ordering online.