African Solstice

Tea type
Fruit Herbal Blend
Ingredients
Blueberry, Elderberries, Mallow Flowers, Natural Flavours, Rooibos, Rose Hips, Rose Petals
Flavors
Berries, Vanilla, Nutty, Artificial, Blueberry, Fruity, Rooibos, Rose, Sweet, Tart, Spices, Berry, Cream, Creamy, Custard, Rosehips, Smooth
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Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 15 sec 4 g 13 oz / 372 ml

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  • “Definitely one of my favourite teas from TeaForte!! They’re an.. okay tea company. I LOVE their tea pyramids since they’re just so darn cute, but they do tend to run on the pricier side so I very...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Another from the GCTTB I’m really liking this one. Nice fruity, vanilla rooibos. The rooibos is not in your face, it’s sitting well in the background. This isn’t fake like the other Tea Forte I...” Read full tasting note
  • “I believe this came from Ellen. I apologize if I am wrong. When I first opened the little sample package, it was just rooibos. I was a bit disappointed but I went through and tried it anyway. It...” Read full tasting note
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  • “1.25 tablespoons for 248 ml Good balance of rooibos flavour and fruity sweetness. Flavour is slightly thin. Thank you to Ellyn for letting me try this!” Read full tasting note
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From Tea Forte

From the soul of South Africa, naturally caffeine-free, antioxidant-rich rooibos herb blended with the taste of berries, blossoms, and a wisp of sweet vanilla. A smooth and delicious cup.

Ingredients: rooibos, elderberries, rosehip, blueberries, mallow flowers, rose petals, natural flavoring (vanilla and berries)

Steeping Guidelines: Steep for at least 5 minutes in boiling water. Unlike tea, rooibos never grows bitter from steeping. Steep as long as you like.

Caffeine: Naturally caffeine-free

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39 Tasting Notes

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9 tasting notes

I love this herbal tea, the initial perfume coming out of the holed lid of Solstice teapot by Tea Forté ALWAYS reminds me of Crème brûlée / Crema Catalana so I am already in the right mood before starting sipping it. Then this strong vanilla perfume diminishes and even the taste reveals the other ingredients. I like to have my teas plain as much as possible, but I love to add some milk or a little bit of sugar to this one.
No need to remove the leaves from the pot, the infusion doesn’t get bitter.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Isabel

Just had another pot of it and loved it as usual, this time I got so excited by the colour: drink it in a white cup … it seems the sunset-time sun has fallen into it!

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39 tasting notes

Ohmygosh, how have I not had this tea before? My amazing sister Kyra (she has a steepster too, idk how to link people here) gave me a little tea sampler and this was part of it. Holycrap this is the best tea ever! It’s sweet and delightfully delicious. It almost has a hint of mint but I can’t tell. it’s so good. I can’t even get over it. I’m making myself another cup.

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33 tasting notes

This tea smells good. All I taste is rooibos with a slight aftertaste of berries. All together pretty bland.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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7 tasting notes

New to better quality teas and gave this one a try. Still trying to decipher my preferences. The vanilla aroma is overwhelming, has a chemical quality to it, and in my opinion it makes a sickening mix with the berry notes in this tea. I do appreciate that lack of bitterness with a rooibos tea even with a long steep, but this blend is just not my thing.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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76 tasting notes

This is a berry-flavored rooibos with a nice flavor, though I’m having trouble placing the flavor of berry. It might be strawberry…or a blend. Unfortunately, I taste a hint of cough syrup in the cup :( I find all Tea Forte blends a little on the strong side, so maybe that’s it.

Preparation
4 min, 0 sec

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75
8 tasting notes

nice tea for relaxing after being super productive

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154 tasting notes

Steeped 6min. 1 Tsp raw sugar. Hot.
Berry front. Vanilla finish. Very mellow, pleasant and smooth.
Non medicinal which is awesome considering that berry flavor teas usually taste medicinal to me.
I have a cup set from tea forte that holds 4 ounces instead of 6 and the explanation on the package said that there dessert teas specifically would brew in the smaller cups better to enhance the flavor. I’m strating to think that all of the teas from tea forte would brew strong pleasant cups in less water.
I’ll give that a shot with the next cup.

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231 tasting notes

The benefit of drinking something blindly is you don’t know what you’re supposed to expect. Based on the name of the tea, I figured it would be a rooibos based tea and examining the pyramid, my assumption was confirmed. I guess there are supposed to be berries in this but I don’t see any in the pyramid. I only smell rooibos but the flavor is vanilla. There is a light berry taste as well. I find it to be a good balance and probably one of the better rooibos blends I’ve had. I’m reminded of a creamy hard candy I had in the 90’s, whose name is escaping me. I think they were put out by LifeSavers candies. Might have to Google that later.

Flavors: Berries, Vanilla

gmathis

Creme Savers! I’ve had some orange/cream teas that resembled one of the flavors.

Cameron B.

I used to love the strawberry ones! :D

Jen vB

Creme Savers! Yes! And I just learned they brought them back.

AJRimmer

I have a Creme Savers bag in my desk at work! Or possibly they’re a generic brand.

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I’m down to the “I really don’t know how I’m gonna feel about this” pyramids from my Tea Forte sampler, and I hesitated to give African Solstice a go, particularly when I saw that rosehips were a key player. I was braced for a mugful of tartness, but this is surprisingly sweet. My taste buds can’t detect anything but a general “unspecified fruit” flavor, kind of like that one single good chew of Fruit Stripe gum before it goes tasteless. Same with the roses—a nice team player in this rooibos-based blend, but they don’t stand out.

None of that sounded very complimentary, did it? It’s a really nice evening cup, especially out of my new favorite hissing mug (just the favorite one that hisses, not my very favorite). Go ahead. Say I’m nuts. I think this little ceramic mug, which had been stashed in storage for ages, was from a donation center when we were trying to cobble together a kitchen after our tornado. Brown with little curlicue hearts on it. I don’t know if it’s the porous texture of the ceramic, or the shape (it tapers inward the tiniest bit at the lip) or the slight flaw in the inner glazing … but whatever it is, it hisses when it’s full of a warm cuppa. Shhh. There. Hear it?

AJRimmer

Ha I have a Boba Fett helmet and shoulders-shaped mug from the 90s, and whenever I drink from it, the tea trapped in the shoulder region makes such a loud glugging noise as it hits the air. My family always jokes around asking Boba what he just said. So I enjoy my noisy mug too!

gmathis

Ah, affirmation! Thank you!

derk

I have a hissing clay teapot that I adore. Relaxing sound.

gmathis

It isn’t just me! Y’all don’t know how happy this makes me.

Mateusz

I have a set of 3 tiny ceramic tea cups. My favorite and the one I always use is the one that hisses. It adds character.

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74 tasting notes

Sipdown #2! Glad to finish this one off. I loved this blend as part of a sampler I got waaaay back in college, so I got a tin of it a little while later. Definitely got a worse batch of it as this time it felt way too fruity, artificial, and kinda thin. The sample on the other hand was creamier, earthier, and rich with that vanilla rooibos flavor I’m usually so in love with.

Flavors: Artificial, Blueberry, Fruity, Rooibos, Rose, Sweet, Tart

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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