Youthberry Wild Orange Blossom Tea Blend

Where I live there aren’t very many stores that sell loose-leaf tea, so when I stumbled across Teavana in a local mall I couldn’t resist taking a look…and a taste. They had this blend as a sample (with sugar) and I bought it along some other things too. As others have commented…they do quite a hard sell there but since I don’t have a lot of choices I just go in expecting to smile and say “no thanks” a lot.

But I digress…when I had this at home without the sugar it seemed really tart with a lot of citrus “pucker”. So then I added in some of the German rock sugar (which they also succeeded in selling to me) and that seemed to mellow out the tartness a bit. I’ve had it almost every night for about 3 weeks now and I’ve actually gone back to having it without the sugar.

Overall I think it’s a nice herbal-type tea to enjoy in the evening…doesn’t keep me up at night and makes me feel like I’m having a treat. Don’t think I will get it again though – there are so many other flavors to try!

How sad. This was included free with my Teavana order. And it’s the best of the bunch of six teas. But it still isn’t that great. First of all, the package said to steep the entire one ounce of tea in two cups! That is ridiculous. I filled up my infuser, so it was probably a teaspoon and a half. This is an AMAZING list of ingredients, but there still wasn’t much flavor (but again, I was supposed to use the entire one ounce package.) The color of the tea is a medium pink. The flavor is mostly an orange (probably from the two orange slices) but also a mild fruit punch taste. The flavor was okay, definitely more than the other white tea with fruit, Scarlet Cloud. There was really no white tea leaves at all. The rock sugar made the tea less tart. I appreciate the free sample of this okay tea, but it’s really disappointing when the free tea in an order is the best one.

Wow, holy crap that was fantastic. It’s more like a concoction of fruit/juice than a tea, and there is so much stuff (goji berries, apples, oranges etc) that it’s not really tea. I think I saw some random small leaves of white tea, somewhere in there. But it does taste fantastic. It’s a very powerful fruit smell and it’s really just awesome. I bet this would rock as an iced tea too. Tried this from a friend but I think I need to buy my own, it’s a great combo. And mostly herbal given the amount of fruit in it, so I’d say the caffeine count would be pretty low.

Ooooh, I must say this blend is something! They send it free when you order via website, so I got 1 oz of it and I wish I’ve gotten more! I find it delicious and very fruity. The rock sugar adds something, even if I’m not the add-sugar-in-my-tea person. Maybe I would’ve taken a bit less of the rock sugar in it, but it’s still very good. I added a bit more tea in my tea ball than the suggested recipe and it was perfect.

I received this as a free sample with my order. It is kind of light in flavor, but you can defiantly taste the citrus. I really like this one.

This is the first loose leaf tea I ever bought for myself, and I still love it.

I went into Teavana because I wanted to get into white teas. (I’ve been drinking green tea for nearly 10 years and it was about time for a change). The lady in the front of the store had a sample of this blend. My first impression of it was, “sweet” but not too bad. When I put in my order, they also pushed for their German Rock sugar… which I declined.

I tried this tea hot and cold. To be honest, I enjoy this tea cold without adding the extra sugar. Taking it ‘as is’ is already sweet enough for me. The smell is bright, overwhelmingly fruity – more citrusy, with little hints of floral notes. The color is pinkish and looks really pretty when I’m steeping the tea in my “Claire Teapot”.

So I have mixed feelings about Teavana – I like that they are bringing looseleaf tea to the masses, I hate the crazy hard sell and massive sales. That said, this is a fun concoction – it doesn’t taste much like tea, per se, but it’s fruity and I love hibiscus, so there you go. I often mix it with a white tea I like to up the actual tea quotient, and it blends nicely.

This my favorite flavorful tea. These two teas blended together make something sweet to the mouth. It really is one of those teas that taste nice hot or cold. It is quite expensive (Youthberry) but I guzzle this stuff frequently as it sets the pace for my day.

This is definitely one I enjoy hot, but I haven’t tried it chilled yet. If you’re a fan of fruity herbals, this is definitely one for you, especially if you’ve had either of the two teas before.

Doing this iced.
Steep time: 4 Tbsp. initially for 3 ½ – 4 hours, followed by an additional 1 ½ Tbsp. to continue to steep overnight.
Scent: Floral and citrusy, with additional fruity tones- acai, berries, pineapple; rose scent, slight tint of hibiscus and orange.

Doing this as a first taste, the night before, after about seven to eight hours steeping.

Not much flavor in the initial sips. Slightly tart flavor in the back of the throat. Continued drinking produces a delightful mix of berry and citrus flavors; with an as yet unidentifiable undertone- it is fruity though. The flavors are light still, just barely there, yet still intense. Sweet and tangy, with a hint of floral tones at the end of sip, and in the aftertaste. Slightly bitter at the back of the throat and in the aftertaste. Probably the hibiscus. I like it though, sweet, yet with that nice tart ending. Will have to get used to the end taste. On the second try, I will add a little sugar (natural raw); see if that intensifies the sweetness enough to balance out the tartness. Slight reanalysis: slightly sweet and floral tones at the end might be the acai and the rose petals. Will have to see with the second tasting.

First rating, about 60-65 out of 100

This tea looks great and smells even better. However, it is very bland compared to its smell. The tea is very good, just not as strong as I expected it to be. I just added some rock sugar to it and it was fine. It did mix very well with the White Youthberry tea, which I enjoyed even more.

AMAZING!

YUM!! One of my favorites!

Still haven’t gotten the brew time perfect — My tea came out today as a light pink, and tasted more like hot water than tea itself. My favorite part of this tea remains that the leaves smell amazing.

Preperations: just tea, no sugar (rock or otherwise) and no milk.

I apparently suck as a tea aficionado because my rating for this tea is significantly higher. I brewed it for iced tea, as it’s a THOUSAND in Texas right now. It is super refreshing, and everyone in the house enjoyed it. We brewed it in our Teavana iced tea pitcher and it made a perfect drink that was gone in just over 24 hours.

so good love this tea

I was surprised Teavana was giving this out as a free sample when I first tried it. In fact, I knew as soon as I smelled it that I was going to go through it rather fast haha. I actually considered buying something small on the site when they had free shipping just so I could get more! There was just the right amount of a floral note (I had tried a peony tea in the past and it was just way too much), and the youthberry was really satisfying. I’ll definitely be getting more.

really don’t think there is any tea in here. Tastes like warm fruit punch. I think it might be better iced but I don’t care for it.

On opening the package, I could smell a lot of the citrus, which was nice. I noticed that there was hibiscus in it, so I was prepared to take the infuser out a couple minutes into the brewing. There really weren’t many tea leaves, which kind of disappointed me. On tasting it, I got hints of fruits other than hibiscus and grapefruit, but not much. It’s a little better at two minutes of steeping time and a little sugar. I might buy some more of this; if only to chill it and drink it iced; it’s quite nice that way