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So much backlogging to do. >.< Curse poverty and multiple medical disasters.
This was a somewhat ironic Winter Solstice present. Usually my solstice celbrating friends stick to green teas for solstice tea gifts (the whole “green/go away winter” thing, I suppose) but this is delectible enough to override my rooibos aversion. And anything tropical has a welcome place in my cupboard while I need snowshoes to reach my mailbox. (-_-;)
This is a bright, fruity bend that’s amazingly sweet from the pinappple. I could swear the main ingredients were guava and papaya and there was no rooibos at all (a plus for me) but it says the contrary. I guess that’s an interaction of the pinapple and marigold? Hmm… Anyway, this is my favorite dessert tea right now. Perfect for late night sugar cravings without a genuine contribution to diabetes.

Some how my sore throat has morphed into a cold. In 90 degree weather. Go figure…
In lieu of chocolate I can only have this. It occurs to me that it would probably be best to stock a decaffeinated chocolate tea, but this is the best one I’ve tried so far. It tastes like liquid dark chocolate with a hint of floral levity. Miss Sweet has the right idea adding a couple rosebuds for extra rose flavor. And vitamin C, of course. =)

This was a nice end to a surprisingly cold summer day. 64 F on the last day of June? Balderdash!
It really does taste like honeysuckle-in hay, that is. I couldn’t help but think of early autumn and the first afternoon chills when I drank this. It has a sweet, thick smoothness that put me to sleep despite its spark of caffeine. I might pick this up in fall if I can’t find a better organic loose white to stash.

I was really excited to try this tea as I’ve been wanting to try Indian green teas. And a tea that bills itself as sustainable and a perfect pairing with chocolate? Who could resist?
The dry smell is like seaweed, cut grass and swamplands. It intesifed while steeping. I brewed it in my green teapot (Green forest-friendly tea in a green teapot? Why not?) so the red-brown color was a nice suprise while pouring. Even better, the tin’s instructions were fairly close to the times/temperatures I find satifactory.
The taste is musty and vegetal with tones of what I think is oak, a bit of a malty Assam, like the tin says. It very much reminds of Florida everglades. I’ve gotten five good infusions from this tea before it slides away from strong and musty to vaguely herbacious, but still drinkable. I can only hope they harvest this every year for a while.

I purchased this because it was on sale for $2 and now I see why it was. The matcha and lotus listed in this blend are undetectable and the main components of green tea and goji are weak and flat, resulting in that “bagged tea” taste. I’ve been needing a cheap health-on-the-go tea, I suppose, so money wasn’t totally wasted. And it does smell amazing. Oddly, I can smell matcha, lotus, and the other missing flavors. I guess the flavor gremlins stole them mid-brew…

Yep. I got a bad one the first time.
However.
The “fresh” one was still weak and a bit bitter. But for less that a dollar, I guess I can’t complain, especially since forgeting to bring good tea to work is my own fault…

This was the best rooibos I’ve had in a while. I love the real vanilla taste in this like others have said. Every time I have a tea with vanilla is seems to suffocate any other ingredients or taste odd. Even with bad brewing conditions the flavors melded well and highlighted the tea insted of trying to convince us it wasn’t as bad as it seemed.