Pomegranate Raspberry Green

I am drinking this iced, and it’s decent. It was a bit tart, so I added sugar. There isn’t much pomegranate action, but the raspberry is present and very nice. I don’t know if I would buy a whole box of this tea, but if someone offered me a glass I wouldn’t pass it by.

The dry teabag has a deep, rich fruited honey scent – almost a powdered honey smell. It smells really good! The tea smells exactly the same while steeping – maybe with a touch more fruit. The scent reminds me of a fruity dessert mead…mmmmm.

Without sweetener, the tea is lightly fruity and tastes somewhat honey like – I can make out the green tea, but it’s pretty faint.I would never know this had chamomile in it if I hadn’t read the bag. The hibiscus works well with the pomegranate flavor, and it isn’t too tart. Of course I had to add a little honey to it – it brought out the fruit flavor, but the honey flavor also became more pronounced. They could have just as easily called this “fruit mead flavored tea”!

I’m surprised the reviews on this are as ho-hum as they are – I probably would have rated this about 5 points lower without sweetener, but it’s quite good with a few drops of honey. I’m also a hibiscus fiend though, so keep that in mind when I tealog herbal teas… :)

My 40 day fast is up and had my “first” cup of tea this afternoon! Too bad this tea was the first I had. I like the sour aspect of this tea, and it isn’t overwhelming, but it should be a little sweeter. More raspberry than pomegranate. I detect the orange zest but am not certain about chamomile.
Unfortunately I have like 19 more bags of this stuff. Maybe the rest will be better cold. Or a reduced version with some cane sugar for an ice cream syrup or something…

This is not my favorite tea. Like previous reviewers, I find the chamomile distracting and the green tea flavor underwhelming. I’m completely missing the matcha, which I expected to be similar to Stash’s Ginger Peach Green with matcha. Not so. The tartness is not overwhelming; I usually gag on very acidic teas, but this one I can sip. I like it better iced and when I forget that it’s supposed to be green tea.

I’m finding it hard to put a finger on what I like about this tea, but I like it. Definitely fruity and a little sour, but the matcha gives it a bit more body (I think – I haven’t tried matcha on its own yet). A shorter steep and water just below boiling seems to work well.

Finished my box of this yesterday. I’d been making it two bags at a time in 16 oz water the last few times and ended up with a single bag left. That single bag cup was an improvement. It must have been the best ratio of water to bag I’d tried yet. The green tea was discernible in the taste. Unfortunately, the tartness was still too present, and the raspberry too missing, to make me change my mind about it.

I logged this tea MONTHS ago. Wasn’t great but wasn’t the worst I have had either. As I am trying this for the 2nd time today I still can’t say I like it. I even understeeped. Smells great but it’s not a good hot cuppa. Maybe it’s one of those that is supposed to be iced. I won’t be buying this one again, sorry.

I grabbed the wrong teabag this morning so I didn’t intend to drink this. One thing I can say in its favour is that it’s very hard to scald this green tea since I used boiling water (I thought it was a black tea) and steeped it for quite awhile. Or it could just be the sourness of the hibiscus is disguising any bitterness

Single bag from a tea box. I taste tart fruit combined with a slightly harsh green tea. It’s decent cold, but it doesn’t have the depth of high quality green teas. The fruit isn’t super distinct or delicious either, just sort of sour. This isn’t a special blend, but it’s okay.

This was one of three free samples included with an order, but the first two I have tried are a dud.

I was really hopeful for this one as it contains mostly green tea plus a touch of matcha. But….HIBBY. WHHHHYYYYYYYYY? sob

When the hot water hit the bag, it didn’t instantly turn red, which gave me hope temporarily.
But then the pinkening began.

Ah well. This was at least muted hibby and smelled like strawberry candy more than anything else. I didn’t add sugar and I did manage to drink it as a hot beverage, and I did not violently hate it, but I don’t think I would buy any unless I wanted to make really sweet iced tea with it. It is pretty tart, but not too much so.