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Plantation Mint from Bigelow

Steepster Score 45 Ratings Rate This Tea

67/100

Plantation Mint

Black Herbal Blend by Bigelow

For three generations, the Bigelow family has specialized in creating a variety of deliciously different teas. In Plantation Mint, we use only the finest mountain-grown tea blended with natural spearmint. We hope you enjoy it.

44 Tasting Notes

Brittany Sedor
98
Matu
82

This tea is awesome! I normally don’t like spearmint flavored anything, but this tea’s spearmint flavoring is smooth, cool and delicious. Mixed with black tea it’s just to die for :)

cartomancer
68

I like this a lot. Affordable and nice flavor.

Jolt
63

This is a nice, smooth mint blend with a medium-strength black tea as its base. I like it, but since I like to sweeten my tea and I have often had this in situations where I was actually denied access to sugar (due to obese assholes who were on a diet that they imposed on everyone that failed anyways), it has left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, if only by negative association. I know it’s pretty good, but I think I’ll wait and try it again, when things are better and I’m less likely to have to deal with jerks so frequently.

Teachick22
100

Yet another one of my favorite teas, this is one that’s good anytime, even in an instance where you have a sore throat. Even though I do like peppermint, this is my favorite :) This is another one that I usually steep for four minutes and fourty five seconds

Summer Dandelion Bat Collins
99

this is my go-to tea after having mint tea at a Mediterranean restaurant. its best sweetened with honey, but if you go cold with a large amount of it (like I normally do) i sweeten it with organic sugar.

Amber
62

Refreshing, nice to clean the palate or as a pick-me-up if you’re feeling hot or tired.

Solidaritea
50

I probably shouldn’t like this tea: it’s flavored, it’s bagged, and it’s title evokes nostalgia for a slaveowner sipping tea on his porch in the antebellum south. But somehow the spearmint works. It lifts this tea above most bagged varieties. It’s quite sweet too; and comforting. Perhaps in much that same way that many Americans are comforted by slave-era stereotypes of black people.

Callieknit
84

Very good. Sugar not needed.

someserpent
84

I like to steep this with a Dilmah Hibiscus and Rosehip tea and drink it sweet and iced—Moroccan Iced Tea. ^_~ On its own, it’s a fair mint tea, but it’s a black tea with spearmint, so the flavour is nice, but not terribly strong.

Paper_and_Water
60

This is okay. If I can’t find another mint tea, I’ll drink it, but I’m not too fond of the mix of mint flavors.

Mel
65
Mel

This tea is good for being cheap! I always drank it iced. It’s not a mild mint, it’s right in front! I prefer mint blends now, but it’s still a good, simple tea.

James Deville
70

Saw this at work and decided to try it. Not too bad. Lots of mint, not much black. Enjoyable, but not an everyday drink.

Charise
67

Spearmint is a very nice change from peppermint. This tea gets extra points for the mint.

BBGrrl
14

I don’t like mint tea. We keep it in the house for the boy.

tglassburner
69

Tea was there so I decided to try it. Not a horrible bagged tea. It was in the break room.

Seth Trautman

Um…this tea is okay, but it always reminds me of being sick. Its a little too much spearmint and not enough other flavors.

Jack Gallagher

This tea weirds me out a little bit for political reasons. I suppose a plantation is just a place with plants, but I cannot help but associate it with America’s unhappy history in the slave trade. But the tea’s fine.