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I’ve finished up another package of this lovely tea… truly a tragedy. This may be one of Teavana’s infamous fruit blends with a bit of tea added, but they do it right.

The fruit combination is excellent and gets major props for including kiwi, which is one of my favorites and severely underrated. You can’t really distinguish between each fruit, but they create something new that’s better than each would be individually.

However, this is from the taste a straightforward fruit punch-y tisane. The jasmine pearls adds a perfect floral touch without taking over the flavor, and I assume the green rooibos helps as well (although I’ve never had straight green rooibos so I can’t say for sure). This is a tea that needs to be sweetened to bring out the full potential, but when it is, it’s a perfect medley of some of my favorite flavors.

This is a tea that doesn’t stand well alone. With sugar, there’s a perfect cookie smell and a pretty accurate (although very much simplified) taste, but without it, it’s just a too-bitter chocolate tea. I could see this being a nice little Christmas surprise, but if you missed it, I’m sure you can find something better.

This reminds me of a blend I threw together myself! Great minds think alike?

Mate and mint are just a really excellent combination, and the vanilla adds a nice little touch. Personally, I’d rather have a stronger mint flavor but this would be an idea choice for someone who wanted only a touch of mint.

I wish I loved this one as much as everyone else, I truly do! It’s not a bad tea, but the cinnamon I’m getting is more reminiscent of red hots than cinnamon rolls, and that really throws everything off for me. I enjoyed the hint of frosting taste, though!

Hmm… I can clearly smell and taste what’s supposed to be the flavor of buttery pastry, but it just keeps reminding me of yogurt. I think it’s a personal association more than an error of 52teas’ part, but nonetheless I can’t get the idea that I’m drinking yogurt-flavored tea out of my head.

I like this tea, but I wish it had about twice as much fruit flavor. That’s what I expect from this kind of tea, and I think it would cover up the yogurt-y weirdness as well. It’s a good attempt, don’t get me wrong, and I appreciate that it’s a different approach to dessert teas than I’m used to tasting, but it could be a lot better.

That said, I’m glad I got to sample this! I’m definitely curious about 52teas’ other pastry-esque dessert blends, because I’m sure some of them are wonderful.