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Backlogging from last night.
I picked up a handful of teas from Teavana yesterday, and this was one I’ve kinda had my eye on for a while, I figured I’d get it since I tend to have issues sleeping most nights and I don’t currently have any other chamomile teas.
So yeah, last night, I was just beat…. I spent most of the day running around places, spent a couple hours at a park throwing a baseball around with a friend just trying to get ourselves ready for summer softball leagues… So I thought this would be a great tea to end the night with to help me get to bed.
The tea itself has a nice smell to it. There is a sweet citrus-y aroma to it either form the orange blossoms or the citrus peels. There are small undertones of lemongrass scents in this as well. I can’t really smell the chamomile all too well though. Once steeped this tea has pretty much the same scents as it does unsteeped.
I typically don’t mind the tartness of hibiscus or rosehips, even when they are in a tea together, I sometimes even enjoy the tartness of the two. But since I was looking for a nice soothing tea to go to bed with, I wasn’t really wanting a tartness to the tea, so I was almost afraid of trying this one.
But MAN, this tea was actually really good and wasn’t tart at all! It definitely does have a very soothing quality to the tea, I could definitely taste the chamomile a lot better than I could when it came to the smell of it. I was able to taste almost every ingredient in this, except for the hibiscus and rosehips, which is pretty interesting.
Needless to say, I passed out shortly after having this tea. I don’t know if it was because of the relaxing qualities of this tea and the chamomile, if it was because I was already feeling dead tired from being out and about for the day, or a combination of the two. But this tea definitely hit the spot right before bed. Definitely a good nighttime tea choice.
Preparation
I hit the 3pm slump, and had a quick brew of this to perk me right up. It’s been in the back of my tea cabinet for ages, but I was looking for a maté, and I knew this was there.
(Note to self; get more matés. Suggestions?)
It’s just as good as I remember it; smooth, chocolatey, and not too “tea-like” once I added some cream. More like coffee without the jitters. Mmm.
Preparation
You asked for suggestions on Mates BTW I love mate’s in the morning before my first cup of black tea too!
I love these- Teavana Rooibos Chai blended with Matevana
Teavana My Morning Mate
Tea’s Etc. Coconut Custard Rooibos which is awesome alone and
since you love coconut (some people say I’m a pusher of this one)
but this one mixed with the first in the list from Teavana is
reminiscent of a mounds candy bar.
Please let me know if you try any of these I would love to read the reviews.
Oops correction I just realized I mixed 52Teas Chocomate (which I’m not crazy about by itself) with the coconut custard and that’s what tasted sorta like a mounds bar.
Totally agree with Meghann M’s review. It is surprisingly more tart than I expected and the cup looks beautiful it could be mistaken for a cup of cranberry juice (I am drinking it in a glass cup). The nose to it smells of what I think to be kiwi I’ve never had just plain kiwi so I can’t be sure of that. I can’t wait to try this one with a little sugar and iced! Yea and Thanks, Silvermage2000 for another wonderful sample!
Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 2 zarafina c
Tool: Zarafina white-loose-medium
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: Sweet, fruity, berry
Steeped Tea Smell: Smells like leaves and fruit, papya maybe, sweet
Flavor: sweet, berry, tart, bitter
Body: Light
Aftertaste: bitter
Liquor: Translucent orange
I think this is being discontinued as I got it on 50% off sale, no return stamped from Teavana.
I saw such positive reviews on Steepster I decided to try it.
I think I should have chosen mild not medium.
Post-Steep Additives: German rock sugar, sweeter but still bitter.
Resteep: same as the first.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-white-tea-garden.html
Agreed, I think mild would probably of have been a better choice. I can’t seem to get that acai blueberry one right. It’s always so tarty…
i think the reason i never love greens and whites is they are so finicky – it’s hard to make them right, but when you do they rock
Confirmed that it is discontinued. I wrote to Teavana to ask.
They said that Emerald Bamboo Forest is “quite similar” — which is interesting considering it doesn’t contain any berries.
i HATE when they “re-work” a recipe and say it’s similar, it never it! well that and mom is still bitter over the loss of mrs. earl grey but we might have that fixed soon
A good Oolong, It had a bit to strong of a floral note for my taste, But I would definitely recommend it to someone who like a subtle sweet taste, I did see that others who had bought it thought it was supposed to have raspberries in the tea but what I was told was that the tea trees grew in what was once a raspberry field and that is were the taste comes from.
Preparation
My package of teas from my trade with Lori came yesterday and I was determined to try this one. The smell in the package was a creamy lemon, like a lemon tart, and the steeped liquor was the same as well as being the color of lemon meringue. The taste was definitely lemon and cream with a faint note of something fruity in the background…perhaps from the rooibos.
This tea is so naturally sweet I could probably get used to drinking it without sugar which, for me, is saying quite a lot. I probably wouldn’t drink this often but it would be a great occasional afternoon tea on a rainy day in the summer.
Preparation
Haven’t had this in quite a long time. Needed something green and sweet after dinner tonight, and this did the trick. Steeped 4 tsp in 175ish water for 2 minutes and poured over ice. Iced this has quite the vegetal/hay flavor I like to avoid, maybe a few fresh lemon slices would make it go down faster…but I have no lemons. I can taste the lightly sweet cherry but the grassy green overpowers it. Not bad, just not great. I won’t change the rating as I remember liking this a bit more hot.
Thank you AmazonV for passing this tea along to me! I was so excited to try it I had to brew a cup first thing.
This tea has such a sweet cherry aroma. I brewed according to Teavana’s directions: 1 minute @175 and used 1 heaping teaspoon for 8 oz. The liquor is very light, barely any color to it at all, but it smells like sweet cherry blossoms and ripe cherries. The taste is delicate on the tongue. A light tea flavor with a bit of cherry and a very pleasant sweet cherry aftertaste. I’m quite enjoying this tea. So far I think it’s the best green flavored tea I’ve tried, in that I can taste the tea, and the flavoring!
Preparation
12 ounce hot spigot water
in Kati http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/04/kati-review.html
5-7 min
5 min on http://steep.it/5%20minutes + walking back from hot water spigot
3 heaping tsp
nice dark color
nutty smell, nutty earthy taste
yum!
