55 Tasting Notes
Slurp. I’m not a tisane drinker by any means. I’m no great fan of rooibos. I like my real tea. Thus, I’d never tried honeybush, and I was pretty sure I never wanted to. Then I read all the great reviews about this, so I decided to give it a try. I’d like to have a caffeine-free option available. So, I brewed it up, and wow! It really does smell like a pina colada. It tastes like one too. I can’t really figure out what the base honeybush flavor is, but whatever it is, it was overshadowed by the pina colada-iness, which is just fine by me. Now, if this flavor could be added to a black tea, I’d be in total tea heaven.
This is an interesting tea- it smells mostly like cinnamon, but tastes mostly like licorice. That’s fine with me, I enjoy licorice teas. This one almost tastes a bit like rootbeer, but it’s not sweet at all. This isn’t a tea I would want to drink everyday, but it fills a niche.
I generally enjoy minty, candy cane flavored black teas, and this one might just be my favorite of the bunch. There’s something about the flavor that’s just a bit different from other candy cane teas, and I’ve yet to figure out a way to adequately describe it. It’s not that it’s sweeter, it’s not that it’s mintier. This tea does have hunks of actual candy canes in it, so I suspect it’s something the candy canes themselves are imparting. Whatever it is, it makes this tea a favorite with me.
Preparation
This tea was a bit like sensory overload for me. Generally that’s not a good thing with tea, but with this blend, somehow it was a good thing. I’ll start with the smell, which is amazing. Whenever I open this I get wafts of apple orchards on a fall day. The taste is also spectacular- not nearly as sweet or as flavored as one might initially expect based on the scent. Overall a very nice tea- light and fruity.
This tea has a perfectly acceptable flavor- it’s nothing spectacular, but if you’re looking for green tea in a bag that tastes okay, this will get the job done. I’m not really sure I understand the point of mixing in the white tea- I find that the flavor of the white tea is completely overpowered by the green, so this just tastes like green tea to me. That’s fine, and I like it well enough, but I don’t really get any flavor notes resembling white tea.
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This is one of the few flavored black teas by Adagio that I just do not like at all. This tea has a strong, strong, strong vanilla flavor. It’s so strong that it tastes fake and sweet to me- all I can taste is vanilla, no tea. I have to classify this tea as undrinkable, because I simply cannot stand the fake vanilla flavor.
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Decaffinated teas usually reflect that in their taste- it’s to this tea’s credit that it doesn’t taste quite as decaffinated as some others. Yes, I can still taste that it’s decaffinated, but not as much as most others. That said, this green tea has lotus scenting, and is pretty darn well done for a teabag. The lotus notes aren’t too strong, so I can still taste the green tea, as well as a soft lotus flavor. If Tazo made this in a full-throttle version I’d definitely buy it. In it’s current form, it’s drinkable, which is far more than I say about most decaf teas.
Preparation
I love the idea of this tea, but it’s just too sweet for me. There’s LOTS of cinnamon in this tea, and cinnamon can take on a sort of sweet tinge, which it has in this blend. I desperately wanted to like it because it sounds so good, but it didn’t work for me.