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Blackberry Fruit Tea Blend from Monterey Bay Spice Company

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76/100

Blackberry Fruit Tea Blend

Black Fruit Blend by Monterey Bay Spice Company

With a striking contrast of components, Blackberry Fruit tea couples leaves and tea in such a way that each compliments the other! Laced with blackberry leaf, this blend plays on the understated and mild sweetness of berries, while carrying the weight of a strong brew on the back of a substantial black tea. At once heady and gentle, Blackberry Fruit tea is a superb tea with a little something extra!

Ingredients: Black tea, blackberry leaves, and natural fruit flavor.

Contains Caffeine

2 Tasting Notes

Dinosara
75

When I made my groupon order from this company, I ordered a sample of nearly every fruit-flavored black tea they offered. So far I haven’t been very impressed with the low-quality black tea base they use, but I am getting pickier and pickier. I don’t think I’ve ever had a blackberry flavored tea, but I do love to eat blackberries… they are one of my favorite berries. This tea doesn’t smell great, though. When I smelled the dry tea I thought maybe it was just some cross-contamination from other teas in the box, but the steeped tea smells like it too. It’s hard to place or describe, but suffice to say it’s not good.

The taste is… odd. It’s not bad, let’s start with that. The tea is very slightly bitter (curse that low-quality black tea base), and the flavor is I guess blackberryish. I guess. It’s just not what I was expecting. Now I want to go get some blackberries and make sure I’m not going crazy.

SimplyJenW
77

Tea of the afternoon……

I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I was expecting something similar to Adagio Blackberry, but I have to say I like this one more. This black tea base is nothing spectacular, but it is pleasant enough. I don’t feel like it it is something I would rush out an buy, but it is enjoyable. The blackberry seems less tart than Adagio’s. Thank you to Dinosara for the sample!

Steeped by the normal method….