Youthberry / Wild Orange Blossom Blend

Got this tea as a gift. The fruity sweetness of it is about to the edge for me but it’s not bad. I should try it iced, I may enjoy that more. To me it tastes almost juice like. Not bad. I’ll finish what I was gifted for sure but probably won’t buy it again. I really don’t taste any of the floral elements it claims, just the fruit. It would be much better if the fruity flavor was toned down a bit so the others could come out.

This was my gateway tea into the world of loose leaf tea. Very good, fruity tea, where you can really taste the white tea, citrus, and red berry/hibiscus. I like this one a lot.

Fantastic low caf iced tea (1 tsp Youthberry, which has very little white tea in it + 2 tsp orange blossom)

It steeps bright pink and resteeps a few times coldbrewed. Distinctly orange, bitter orange zest, hibiscus, lemon, tropical fruits, something a little bit floral, raspberries/berries. Just all around tasty, especially iced.

Way too much flowers. Tasted like drinking a flower garden.

Ventured into Teavana last night for the first time in over a year. I’ve heard wonderful things about both their Youthberry and Wild Orange Blossom blends, so naturally when I saw pre-scooped bags of both teas mixed together at the front of the store, I had to have one. The two teas I most wanted to try in one convenient bag, AND less time spent having to talk to the obnoxiously perky, aggressively knowledgeable, and pushy salespeople? Sign me up!!

I. Regret. Nothing. This is a perfect tea. It’s a mark of a quality blend when it encompasses pretty much everything I dislike in the tea world (fruity and hibby) and I’m still madly in love with it.

The dry leaf smells VERY strong. I can smell it across the room, and the bag is completely closed and clipped shut. Once opened and viewed, the dry leaf is beautiful. The Teavana signature generous chunks of orange peel, apple, mango, pineapple, whole currants, and whole leaves of white tea all look very graceful together. The mixture is also dusted with something called “fruit powder,” which I’m sure is a flavor preservative/ enhancer.

I’m not ignoring the fact that Teavana is a problematic company.

I steeped this at 175 degree Fahrenheit for two minutes, like the label told me to. The liquor is a bright, true pink. The perfume is heavenly… Sweet, tropical, exciting, energizing.

Upon sipping, I taste the orange and mango mostly, with a note of genuine fresh pineapple in the aftertaste. It’s like sipping a very healthy fruit smoothie. I get what other people are saying on here about the fruit punch factor— it is very punch-like in both mouthfeel and flavor. I didn’t get much in the way of berries this time around, but there’s so much going on in that dry leaf that I’m sure I’ll get different dominant notes each time I scoop some out.

10/10, would recommend! Love it.

This is too weak for my bad taste buds. I’m going to let it cool down a bit and see if more flavours come out. It’s too bad.. the dry leafs smell delicious but the taste is pretty bland.

First of all, I really dislike that you have to get at least four oz of a blend due to the 2 oz. per tea minimum. Second, the sampler at Teavana is a lie. Well, that may be a bit dramatic but I’m pretty sure they douse that stuff in sugar. In reality, the tea alone has a sickly atificial sweetness that needs natural sweetness to offset it. It was way too tart, and it really just tasted like hot fruit juice. I might have given it a higher rating, but this tea’s price was way too high for its quality. Don’t let its pretty dry leaves get you.

Full review here:
http://fullysteeped.blogspot.com/2012/12/teavana-youthberry-wild-orange-tea.html

Exchanged to get this after a nasty run-in with the Imperial Acai Blueberry. I think I needed more tea, or a longer steep, or less ice. The flavor isn’t very apparent, not the way it is in the store. Next time, I’ll cold steep in the fridge overnight, no ice needed.

I still have this sample from two??? years ago that I never got around to trying until now. I was going to try measuring it out into a one cup portion, but the fruit chunks were huge and it’s already got rock sugar mixed in, so I just followed the instructions and dumped the whole package into my gravity steeper.

It’s very sweet (like, on par with their in-store samples kind of sweet), and has a kind of bubble gum-y fruit punch taste. It’s bright pink, which I think is cute, and sweet enough that the hibiscus doesn’t bother me. It’s supposed to be a white tea/herbal infusion blend, but I couldn’t taste any of the white tea at all.

I wouldn’t ever buy this myself, but I didn’t mind drinking it. My brother hates all my teas, but he liked this…probably because it’s closer in taste to something from a juice box than it is to tea.

This is my all-time favorite tea blend! Maharaja/Samurai Chai has nothing on this! I honestly didn’t steep it for myself until a month ago. I had gotten at least 20 iced cups from my local store, but then I decided to get a couple ounces and try my hand at making it at home. Making it with an even more particular preference resulted in it being 20x better than in store! Don’t get me wrong, I still like it in store, but once I run out I’ll probably get more of this tea and even a cup to go!