Peaches & Ginger

After a long, quiet morning filling in for the regular barista, I got home and decided to finish off the last of my Peaches & Ginger tagalong. When I steep this one at work, I taste a little more of the ginger, but making it in my apartment I find that the ginger is just a murky pair of socks in the shoes the peach walks in on – a smooth, sweet undercurrent echoing distant stories of spice is all I detect, but the peach comes through juicy and aromatic. In all likelihood, a little extra steeping time wouldn’t go amiss for this one. Good body and extremely fruity in spite of everything – I’d even go as far as to say the same for the tea.

Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge – July Tea #2 -A peach tea
 
So many fruit teas on the prompts this month that it will be easy for me just to look at my “penultimate sipdown” email draft list and just pick those… low hanging fruits of sipdowns from that list (pun intended).  Here’s one!   This cute tagalong tin is finally finished.  Sadly even such a small amount of tea (only a few teabags in that tagalong tin) has already lost so much flavor.   I have hardly tasted peach or ginger these last couple of steeps. The black tea seems muddled and generic tasting. Ah well, it’s gone now. It looks like I never wrote a note for this when it was fresher. It was better then. Thanks for sharing, Skysamurai!
2022 sipdowns:  79

I really thought I would like this tea, so I bought a lot of it. Oops. It is proving to be not to my taste for reasons I can’t quite figure out. The scent is very floral and full of peach blossoms, and the ginger is definitely present in the aftertaste. There is nothing wrong with this tea. And yet…nope, not doing it for me. I’ll drink my way through what I have of it – it’s not objectionable – but it’s definitely not going to be a tea I grab for when I want comfort-tea or pleasure-tea; this is what I’m going to drink when I go, “I need a cup of something warm and decaf and I don’t care what it tastes like.” (I got the decaf version. That shouldn’t be part of it, but it might be.)

Possibly I’ll decant a bunch of mine into smaller tins and give them to friends who also like peach and ginger. It’s possible it will work for them in ways it does not work for me. Oh well – can’t win them all.

As promised, a black tea flavored with peaches and ginger. It’s sweet, fruity and summery from the peach with the zing of ginger. The ginger is really only a flavor – it has no spiciness at all. Only the aroma of ginger. So if you don’t like spicy teas, you might still like this.

The peach flavor is the strongest flavor while the ginger is more in the background. I would say a 75/25 split. I would probably have expected a more spicy ginger flavor.

Both flavors are pretty mild so you can actually taste plenty of tea flavor underneath. I think this is the most lightly flavored black tea I have had from H&S so far. The black tea in this is pretty mild – around medium-bodied – and has no bitterness or astringency. It seems more watery than their other black China teas, but that might just be my mind that is playing tricks on me, since it is the same base tea as in their other flavored blacks.

It’s a very nice tea and I will happily drink more of it, but there are some other fruity flavored teas from Harney & Sons that I enjoy more (Apricot, Black Currant, Paris, Earl Grey Supreme, Fruits D’Alsace). Those are all slightly better than this. But this is still excellent.

Dry leaves, appearance:
Black Chinese tea leaves with pieces of candied ginger and pieces of dried peach.

Dry leaves, aroma:
Juicy peach in the forefront with a hint of ginger.

Liquor:
Medium to dark brown.

Packaging:
4 oz. loose tea tin.

This is divine hot with honey & milk. The honey enhances the peach flavor exquisitely.

I’m usually pleased with Harney & Sons products, but this tea doesn’t do it for me. This could very well be a personal preference, however I found the flavors in the tea to be too strong and a bit overpowering, regardless of steep time. This is a cup of tea for many, but not my cup of tea.

This is my go-to for iced tea in the colder weather months. Wonderful iced, also lovely hot. Not overly fruity, not heavy-handed on the ginger. Nicely balanced as is, but I like to blend it with a little bit of vanilla tea to really round out the flavors. This one I always tend to keep in my pantry as it’s one of my favorites.

Had high hopes for this one, because I love peachy ginger tea, but I am getting no peach and barely any ginger. I checked the other reviews, and while no one’s particularly raving about it, they don’t seem to have this peachless gingerless problem, so I don’t know if I just got a bad batch or what.

This has been a lovely tea to turn to since the spring months started. Sweet, summery peach. I’ll admit I’ve only had it hot once since I opened the tin, but you know, this is Atlanta. Summer started two weeks ago. You need ice.

Not only does the dry leaf smell like it’s infused with peach candy, it has little nibs of dried peach mixed in. Even better, there are actual chunks of candied ginger. I’m tempted to pick them out and eat them, but I will restrain myself.

The peach flavor comes strongly through the mildly astringent black tea base. It reminds me of the syrupy water canned peaches come in. Not in a bad way, mind you. I was the weird kid that actually liked those in the school cafeteria. Sadly, the ginger is hardly noticeable. I might not have known it was there if I hadn’t made the tea myself. Otherwise, this is a delicious tea. Very fruity and refreshing, also great with a slice of lemon.

I wonder how this would taste steeped with ground ginger…?

Ok so I’m rating this tea iced. I haven’t tried it hot. It’s August. It’s hot. I wanted a cool glass of tea. I’m Southern. It’s a requirement.

Anyway, sipping on this cold n ice. It’s awesome. Doesn’t need sweetener. It’s like a beautiful iced tea would serve at a brunch. It isn’t artificial tasting or overly sweet at all. I don’t even know that I would call it sweet….I just know I like it straight. There’s enough natural sweetness. And def get ginger. It’s pretty awesome

It’s kinda kicking all my other ginger peach tea’s butts right now