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Sylvari's Awakening from Custom-Adagio Teas

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Sylvari's Awakening

Chai Fruit Green White Blend by Custom-Adagio Teas

Vibrant green tea leaves blend with the flavors of budding, tart fruit and opening flowers. Awaken to the world with this brisk tea, bringing you out from your dreams to reality. Remember – all things have a right to grow.

Based on the game Guild Wars 2, which is owned by Arenanet and not me. Artwork is also owned by Arenanet.

ingredients:
pomegranate green, white monkey, green chai

3 Tasting Notes

Tamm
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Tamm 3 tasting notes

So this is the tea I purchased with my recent $10 Adagio credit! I’ve been watching my husband play GW2 and so I was pretty excited to see how someone had interpreted the characters. This tea is a bit up and down with me.
On the up side: it is super flavorful, smells great, and I really like this particular chai. It can really take a beating and does well at higher temperatures and steeping lengths. I think that there is a distinct orange note as well in this chai.
The downside: It’s mostly just chai. Even though the tea has two other teas in it (plain white and pomegranate) it really doesn’t deliver. The picture used for the tea blend is a bit misleading on Adagio’s site because it shows a lot of pomegranate. I was expecting that to balance out the chai, but it really just isn’t there. If someone had asked me what was in this tea I couldn’t have picked it out.
Overall I think that if you really liked chai tea I’d suggest simply purchasing a 3oz bag of this stuff plain rather than the blend because I don’t think the ratios are quite right on it. It would also cost $4 less! Luckily, I didn’t have to pay for this one. All in all I like it though so it will still receive a mixed rating.
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I think that this should be an example of why I think that the blend ratios should be public. I don’t really understand why the creators care to keep them secret as anyone could make the same blend anyways…I think that knowing exactly how much of what would get me to buy more blends just due to the fact that I know exactly what kind of teas I do and do not enjoy. Why risk getting something with too much of something you don’t like?
This has been a rant. :p

This one is just okay for me. It has some chai notes, the green tea really gets buried and it is a bit potpourri like. I’m sad the pomegranate taste is not there because it would bring a really interesting element to this one. I’d suggest this to people who would like to try a green chai.

Wow. O.O I just got finished watching Torchwood’s “Children of Earth.” There are things that are ok and that is not ok! T_T
I’m having tea now to try and recoup a bit!
This tea is so good! It is very citrusy, mainly orange. The orange flavor in this reminds me so much of wassil. I bet if these could be added to their apple chai it would be even better! I really love that the spices are not too dominant in the flavor and it actually takes quite the beating and can do 2 good cups.

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