Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea, Natural Almond Flavor, Natural Cranberry Flavor, Natural Vanilla Flavor
Flavors
Chocolate, Almond, Cranberry, Fruity, Cocoa, Creamy, Nuts, Caramel, Vanilla, Earth, Marzipan, Musty, Sweet, Tart, Wood, Cherry, Raspberry, Artificial, Candy, Smooth, Bergamot, Burnt Sugar, Berry, Berries
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Kosher
Edit tea info Last updated by Shae
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 28 oz / 835 ml

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From Harney & Sons

A flavorful blend of black tea, cranberry, and almond flavors, Boston tea was inspired by the famous bogs south of New England’s ‘city on a hill.’ Like other Back Bay pastimes, it’s acquired an ardent group of admirers.

Ingredients:
Black tea, natural cranberry flavor, natural vanilla flavor, almond flavor

Details: Our Founder ran the White Hart Inn in Salisbury, Connecticut for almost 25 years. And Holidays in the Fall were very busy. It was during that time that Mike fell in love with the tart taste of cranberries. And that is why he loves to make blends that incorporate cranberries.

Dry Leaves: China black tea are the base of this tea.

Liquor: This tea is a medium brown in the cup.

Aroma: This tea has hints of vanilla and almond and a more predominate aroma of cranberry.

Flavors: Like the aroma, this tea has multiple fruity and nutty flavors of almond, vanilla, and cranberry.

Caffeine Level: Caffeinated

Body: A medium body.

Brewing Time: 4 to 5 minutes

Brewing Temp: 212° Fº

https://www.harney.com/products/boston

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Since 1983 Harney & Sons has been the source for fine teas. We travel the globe to find the best teas and accept only the exceptional. We put our years of experience to work to bring you the best Single-Estate teas, and blends beyond compare.

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I don’t know what’s the deal with Harney&Sons but all of their flavored teas taste like it’s the same tea with tiny variations. No offense, they are pleasant, the flavorings are not overboard, the smell is nice…but this Boston blend is essentially Vanilla Comoro with some cranberry tartness! And oh, it is also reminiscent of Paris.

In short: this tea is vanilla, chocolate and muted cranberry on the solid but thoroughly generic black tea base. And, by the way, I don’t think that these components blend particularly well, i.e. it is not Paris nor Hot Cinnamon Spice by any means.

Don’t get me wrong, it is not a bad tea but I already tasted 90% of it before in other Harney teas and it is kind of disappointing. It ’s like a one-hit wonder band that keeps mercilessly milking their only hit by issuing endless remixes and unplugged versions. Me not happy.

Update: I tried it several times and it has grown on me. It is a flavorful blend and I learned to identify and appreciate its unique notes. So, I am back to up this tea’s score.

Flavors: Chocolate, Cranberry, Vanilla

ashmanra

I think this blend is supposed to almond and cranberry. There shouldnt be any chocolate in it unless they changed it.

Bluegreen

Oh, I know there is no actual chocoaltae in it. It’s just what it tastes like to me. T get the same chocolate notes from Vanilla Comoro also. It could come from the underlying tea base. It’s just I am not a big fan of chocolate so I really notice anything that is similar to it.

ashmanra

Gotcha!

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308 tasting notes

The 4-minute recommended steep time was too long. The almond and cranberry flavors were more detectable as the tea cooled. The black tea itself was quite robust and a bit astringent, but I’ll, perhaps prematurely, attribute that to the steeping time. I’ll give it another go with a shorter steep, more water, or a combination of both.

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I had really high hopes for the flavored black tea “Boston”, yet this was the only tea I couldn’t finish. Advertised as a nutty blend of almond, vanilla & cranberry, it fails to mention how floral-tasting this tea is. Very. I cannot for the life of me do floral teas. The longer I sipped, the worse/intense the floral taste became. It just lingered longer than anything should on my palate. I ended up giving the rest away. Pity. If floral is your thing, TRY THIS!

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I had this yesterday, and refrained from leaving a note because it tasted weird. I thought that maybe the genmaicha I’d had previously had tainted the gravity steeper and/or mug I was using. So I scrubbed both out and left them to dry.

Today, I used my strainer ball and a totally different mug on this mix. As a control. For science.

And the conclusion is: this is a totally weird mix that tastes nothing like cranberry, nuts, or basically anything resembling food.

It’s like the sugary byproduct of some kind of food manufacturing process. Like maybe if you went to a Fruit Roll-Up factory and licked the floor.

So I tried icing it. If you ice it, you can kind of taste the nuts. I guess. But it’s still not great.

I daresay it’s… not my cup of tea.

(cymbal smash)

Flavors: Artificial, Candy

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I was hemming and hawing about which tea to purchase tonight, and I made the right choice with the Boston blend. The aroma is wonderful and not too overpowering. It combines some of my favorite flavors/scents with vanilla, almond, and cranberry. I think I may have put in too much tea, but it still tasted wonderful! I couldn’t wait until tomorrow to taste it, so I hope it doesn’t keep me awake! I can’t wait to try more H&S blends!

Flavors: Almond, Cranberry, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 15 sec 3 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML

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Why have I neglected this tea? I bought 2oz a while back from the shop. I think I tried it once in a rush and wrote it off. This morning this tea is perfect. I get a slightly berry almondy flavor. The base seems to be similar or the same as all the flavored blacks. I will be honest I sometimes wished H&S had a slightly nicer base for their flavored blacks, maybe a smooth assam, but it is okay. Good cup this morning. I think I am declaring today H&S tea day. I have quite a few I have been craving recently.

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This was a gift from my Secret Santa. :) I really wanted to try this blend, as it is spoken of favorably by Steepster peeps. It also sounded very cozy for winter, and cranberry and almond sound like a winning combo. Unfortunately, I didn’t taste any almond in this tea, and that was even after adding a splash of almond milk! I did get some tart, slightly juicy cranberry flavor, but it was kind of faint. I can’t vouch for how old the tea is because it wasn’t sent to me in its original container, but overall, I don’t think it’s flavorful enough for me. Besides my love for their Viennese earl grey and Paris teas, I’m still not a Harney’s girl.

Sakura Sushi

Try it iced, if you drink iced tea at all. You still won’t get almond, but you should get a slight sweet, berry flavor. I found this really pleasant as an iced tea, not that interesting as a hot tea.

Nightshifter

Me too- I wasn’t getting what the blend was supposed to be when I tried it. I love Paris also, but I’ve never tried Viennese Earl Grey (which I will now need to remedy). If you haven’t tasted before, I enjoyed Earl Grey Supreme, too.

Tealizzy

Thanks for the tips!

boychik Love Viennese Earl Grey !
Tealizzy

@boychik – yay! :)

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I didn’t have particularly high expectations for this tea since it sounded like it would either be too tart or too plain. Generally speaking, I’m not a huge fan of cranberry-flavored things. I am happy to report that it was neither! Quite enjoyable both hold and cold. I see myself really enjoying this as an iced tea during summer and as a hot tea in fall/winter. Thanks, dort, for sending me a sample!

Flavors: Cranberry

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So…I think if I liked cranberries I’d really enjoy this tea. Because it’s not overly cranberry, and it’s not overly almond. It’s like half and half. Which I can appreciate. Usually it’s one or the other it seems, but it’s a well-rounded tea.
It’s strong and smooth, but I’m really not a fan of cranberries. So this one isn’t for me.
Glad I got to try it though. Thank you to Rosehips for this one!

Flavors: Almond, Cranberry, Smooth

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http://youtu.be/4ASJBXu8tNo?list=RD4ASJBXu8tNo

I never realized how much this song was about rebirth and transformation, but aren’t all soft rock songs? I’m not actively seeking to reinvent myself right now, but Boston by Augustana just seems to fit Harney & Sons’ Boston Blend.

Now, there’s one line in the song that is completely out of place. Let me transcribe a few lines for you:

I think I’ll start it over, where no one knows my name,
I’ll get out of California, I’m tired of the weather,
I think I’ll get a lover and fly him out to Spain…
Oh yeah and I think I’ll go to Boston,

Did you see it? It’s just barely audible, but apparently Augustana couldn’t find any adequate rhymes for name – except Spain. And how does everyone associate with the Spanish? Well, clearly lust and escape and sex and gigolos and the sexual revolution of the 1980s.

Unfortunately, the boys seem oblivious of their own city’s claim to fame on the erotica game: “Banned in Boston”. Indeed, the fabled city on a hill and critically acclaimed Protestant haven, Boston has tirelessly defended against the ever-increasing lewd and licentious dangers plaguing modern society. Much like our aforementioned guardian, Iggy Azalea, of sexual purity, Boston’s long-standing Watch and Ward Society censored the likes of the evil Upton Sinclair, Faulkner, HG Wells, and Ernest Hemingway. Thank gourd Harry Potter wasn’t around to plague the youth of Boston!

Thus, adding another page to our Caulfield-like repertoire, we see the boys of Augustana desire to return to a period of innocence since lost. See no evil.

Here’s a Creed song: http://youtu.be/iBBqjGd3fHQ

Flavors: Bergamot, Burnt Sugar, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 22 OZ / 650 ML

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