Sweet Spice

Tea type
Fruit Tea
Ingredients
Apple, Cardamom, Cloves, Hibiscus, Orange Peel, Orange Pieces, Raisins, Rose Buds, Rose Hips
Flavors
Cloves, Fruity, Hibiscus, Orange
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “172/365 I chose this one today largely because of the name – sweet spice sounds like something that might be good for a cold. Turns out it has an unusual selection of ingredients, though – they’re...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This tea is very nice hot, nice and fruity. Great for a cold, because you don’t add milk. The spices are subtle, but very tasty. The hibiscus flavour is quite obvious, it’s very good.” Read full tasting note
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Description:
What is happiness made of? Seems like the same kind of stuff as this delicious tisane. Sugar in the form of more-ish meringue, spice in the scents of cardamom and cloves, and delicate rose, raisins and flavours of orange are all things nice!

Brew:
1 teaspoon per 200mls. Brew 3 – 5 minutes in water at 100 degrees Celsius.

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172/365

I chose this one today largely because of the name – sweet spice sounds like something that might be good for a cold. Turns out it has an unusual selection of ingredients, though – they’re not things I would have thought to put together. It’s an interesting one in terms of appearance, too – and, for a fruit blend, pretty impressive. It has literally huge whole rose buds, dried quarters of sliced orange, whole raisins, cloves, hibiscus petals, and mini meringues! Very pretty to look at.

It’s a slightly odd flavour, but perhaps that’s not entirely unexpected. It’s sweet, from the meringues, tart and a little sour from the hibiscus, with a background floral from the rose. There’s a splash of orange, which tastes more like fizzy vitamin C tablets than actual orange, and then a fairly significant kick of spice. The earthiness of clove is there, but I’m sure there’s also some chilli, and possibly cayenne. I can smell it.

It kind of works, but it’s a bit crazy. In some ways, it tastes like a Christmas tea, and I’m pretty sure the clove is responsible for that. The spice works well with the sweet-ish background, largely because the hibiscus helps to mediate between the two extremes of flavour. That tart sourness in the mid-sip really seems to help bring the two together, and it’s a rare day I say anything complementary about hibi. Mostly, though, I feel like this suffers from an excess of ingredients. There are things I can’t see the point of, and that just distract from what on the whole is a pleasant, if unusual, flavour. Raisins, for example. I also have my doubts about the rose.

I’d probably not buy this one again, just because I can’t see myself drinking it regularly. It’s a little confused for my liking, but it’s certainly been an experience! I think I can see what T2 were trying to achieve with this one, but I just don’t think they quite made it.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp

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This tea is very nice hot, nice and fruity. Great for a cold, because you don’t add milk.
The spices are subtle, but very tasty.
The hibiscus flavour is quite obvious, it’s very good.

Flavors: Cloves, Fruity, Hibiscus, Orange

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 5 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML

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