Honeydew White Tea

Well I’m back in NY for the moment. Ran some errands today and ended up at the grocery store that carries this line of teas, and this time I chose the honeydew instead of the honeysuckle. I wasn’t expecting it to be sweetened because the honeysuckle one wasn’t, so at first I was caught off guard and I didn’t think it tasted very good. Then after I adjusted form my expectations, I enjoyed it a lot more. It’s not super sweet, and it really does taste like a ripe honeydew melon. There is a little bit of tea taste in the background there, but not a lot. I think I would like it better if it were unsweetened because I have a feeling that the honeydew extract would lend itself to slight sweetness anyway, and it would be more refreshing.

Smells like nail polish remover (but then again so does Teavana’s Joie de Vivre) tastes pretty much like honeydew, smell is distracting though. I was only given a few sips of this by the husband, he says its a bit off.

Backlog: I bought some of this on a whim the last time I was in the grocery store and I had it last night with dinner. Meh… it was alright, I suppose, but I guess I’ve become too spoiled by the iced tea series from 52Teas and I found this to be too cloying. I finished the bottle but I don’t think I’d buy this one again.

I had this iced tea today while washing clothes. The supermarket had them discontinued at 50% off. This is a very good melon flavored iced white tea. It was bolder than I expected and very refreshing. Its a sweetened iced tea, but its not too sweet. I don’t do a lot of sugar so I always check for the sugar on the label.

I really enjoy this tea. It is sweet but not too sweet and has a very nice light and refreshing flavor. Just what you want in an iced tea.

I’ve been drinking this for several years. It used to be great, a perfect blance of mild sweetness and tea flavor, but the last few bottles I purchased smell like nail polish remover. It even has an aftertaste of what I imagine nail polish remover would taste like. Horrible. Not sure what happened to their quality control, but I’m done with it.

Surprisingly good! I don’t think I’d ever seen a honeydew flavored tea before this one. Not too overly sweet or melon-y, just enough. Not generally a big iced tea person, but I’d definitely get this again.

A very fresh-tasting cold drink with the sweet (but not too sweet) taste of honeydew melon.