Peach Bellini Blush (formerly Joie de Vivre)

Mmmmmmm. So good. Mmmmmmm. I feel like I should be sitting out on a patio somewhere.

The smell of the dry and brewed tea is very much peach bellini.

The taste reminds me of peach bellini but it not exactly like it. It is like sweet candied peach. Like fuzzy peach candies but with no sour. Or like Tim Horton’s “peach drink” No need to add any sweetener to this one.

I drank this in the store in the Staten Island Mall. I haven’t been there since they first opened. It is staffed by teens who don’t really know customer service…

I had this iced. It was not overly sweet like many peach teas I’ve tried. In fact it was really tart, which I was surprised by because peaches and figs are pretty sugary. (I have a fig tree in my back yard and can make myself sick on figs because I love them so much.) I guess it was the candied lemons that made it that way? I didn’t taste vanilla at all in this. I enjoyed this, but I don’t think I’d go out of my way again to get it.

I am struggling to find a balance when I steep this tea; too short and the flavor is weak, too long and the sharpness of lemon takes over the rest of the fruits. The fact that the tea is nearly colorless doesn’t help – it’s hard to gauge steepage when the water doesn’t turn yellow or green or amber!

Anyway, this is one of those teas that smells better than it tastes. Not that it tastes bad…it reminds me of those cans of fruit cocktail you can buy at the grocery store. A little zesty, a little sweet. Not terribly exciting, though.

Ponder life’s great enjoyments. Think love. Think beauty. Think wonder. Think Teavana’s boldly-named Joie de Vivre? It takes quite a bit of hubris to declare your tea the joy of life and do it in the language of love, no-less.

On this windy and cold, brutal winter night, I sit hoping this Teavana blend will radiate some light on my evening. This fruity tea brews to a very mild yellow color. The peach-like smell has me recalling a warm mid-summer day. A glowing day that feels so, so distant. My excitement builds as I take the first sip. Bring me joy!

Upon tasting, I am quickly brought back to a harsher reality. This light and smooth blend has an interesting peachy-grape taste with a fairly-strong lemony aftertaste. It’s a tea that at first grabs attention due to the intersection of some unique flavors. But after the initial element of discovery, this tea becomes rather uninspired. Where is the joy? While not terrible, it hardly lives up to it’s haughty name. This is a tea that would likely be better served iced, while sitting poolside, with a nice colorful straw poking out. As I peer out of my window into the total eternal darkness known as winter, I’m left feeling dispirited.

This tastes like Teavana’s Peach Tranquility but it’s more expensive. Sweet not too tart, not too strong. It doesn’t need sweetener.

Love love love this iced and blended with opus rouge!! 1.5 tsp of German rock sugar! perfection!

I actually enjoy this tea! Awhile back, while browsing for a new tea to try, the sales clerk suggested that I try the Joie de Vivre tea. He brewed it with just a tiny pinch of sugar and served it hot. It was delicious! I don’t think it smells very good…but I rather enjoy the taste. With notes of peach and grape, and a few others that I can’t identify, I do enjoy drinking this tea before bed. I’ve had it iced as well and it tasted just as smooth. While it was enjoyable, not sure I would buy it again after my 2 oz are gone.

I think I may be one of the few people who really love this tea. I add a little bit of sugar and it tastes just like one of my mom’s sugar cookies. I find it truly delightful and like to mix it with the honeybush vanilla as an iced tea.