Cranberry Peach Black

WHOA. Okay…so…Cofftea was the first to point out that I’m high on caffeine today! Usually it’s SoccerMom…lol…LOVE IT!

Oddly enough, for once, it IS kicking in…usually it doesn’t have an affect on me. But then again WALKING ON SUNSHINE is playing on the radio and it’s beautiful out today so that probably has SOMETHING to do with it too…WOW! RAMBLE MUCH!?

LOL

So…on to the review…

I opened my sample of this and, again, the whiff of the flavored tea HIT me! Intense flavors! Cranberry and Peach! You can clearly see the ingredients of this flavored black. The slivers of peach are HUGE and the Cranberry is certainly there…smaller but more frequent throughout the loose leaf blend.

It’s lighter in color for a black…barely what I would classify as a medium brown once infused. It smells like Black Tea, Cranberry and Peach, and a bit floral, even.

I think it smells (after infusion) more peach than Cranberry but when it comes to the taste – I think it tastes more cranberry than peach….but both still present. This is tasty! I’m confident it will be yummy iced too…one of these days I will put it to the test! But for now I’m drinking it hot! :) Nom.

If you like flavored blacks, and more importantly, if you like cranberries and peach…give this a whirl!!!

This tea has evoked multiple reactions from people walking by my office, mainly “that smells really fruity!” and “is that peaches??”

The leaf on this one looks more similar to the quality of that in the Snowflake tea rather than the Earl Grey Cream, that is, smaller pieces like a typical flavored tea you might come across. It is one of those teas that smells very familiar but I can’t quite place. Like, don’t I have a tea just like this already? But I can’t think of one that I do. Maybe it’s the peach flavoring is reminding me of peach teas like Harney’s Midsummers Peach. I typically don’t drink many peach teas so it’s not a big list of possibilities.

The flavoring on this one is juicy and tasty; mostly peachy but definitely with some tart cranberry notes as well. What sucks here is the black tea base… not only is it uninteresting, it also borders on bitter and distasteful. That sounds worse than I mean it too… it’s not like I’m going to pour the cup out, and it’s not really that bad, but it certainly puts a damper on the whole experience. I haven’t been able to find this blend on Monterey Bay Spice Company’s website (though I recognize some MBSC blends on GTC’s website), but it certainly tastes like a MBSC black base, which really aren’t that good. Fortunately, like other MBSC blends, I have a feeling that this will make a tasty cold brew.

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me a sampling of this tea!

This is good. The cranberry flavor is there, tart but not verging on sour, because the lovely peach flavor comes through and cuts through the tartness just enough. I am not getting the cinnamon flavor that the description suggests, perhaps that is an error?

The black tea base is a little more astringent that I’d like it to be, but other than that, this is quite good.