Peach Apple Crisp

In the sample bag this smells like a cobbler—heaven! There’s fruit, spices, maybe even some bake-y notes. Surprisingly, it’s a totally different tea when steeped. I tried this hot and cold brewed, and both times it was very very fruity. The peach and apple are quite natural tasting, but strong, to the point where the black base is kind of hanging out in the background. There are some nice malty notes and I think they picked some pretty strong teas to go with these flavors, which is good otherwise they’d be lost entirely.

There are no cinnamon or bake-y flavors at all in the brew, so it’s definitely not the tea I was expecting. Iced, though, it’s really lovely, fruity and bright. Great with a slice of lemon while watching summer storms! Sometimes a tea doesn’t meet your expectations but surprises you in other ways, which this one definitely did.

I just posted a review of this on my blog http://theeverdayteablog.blogspot.com/ I had planned to save it back for later but it pleasantly surprised me so I went ahead and published.

Short version – not the overwhelming fruit and flowers I was expecting. It is lightly flavored and bonus I can taste the tea base. I did not notice the hibiscus and could only catch rooibos in the cup aroma while breathing in as I sipped – Just not at the same time ;)

Well done!

This is another sample I’m trying today from the Persimmon Tree…

I liked this, it’s a black blend of nilgiri and assam, there’s a bit of red rooibos in here as well but I can’t taste it. The peach and apple flavor is very mild and I was somewhat surprised by that, I was expecting it to be stronger. I think perhaps this needs a resteep at a lower temp? It’s nice right now but I am not totally impressed. Will update this if my impressions change…

Not only am I shocked to be the first to log THIS tea from this Company but I am shocked that I am the first to log ANY tea from this company here on steepster! I am really SHOCKED that this company hasn’t been listed at all yet here in our lovely community!

So…I’m drinking this now and it’s the very first tea I am trying from this company and I must say I am impressed!

The first song that came to mind was PEACHES by The Presidents of the United States of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvcohzJvviQ

Anyhow…on to this lovely little number!

DRY this smells like various black teas, peaches, apples, flowers, spices, and a little hibiscusy. FULL of aroma!

Post infusion…smells mostly of peaches, apples, flowers, and cinnamon. Different than pre-infusion but still very nice and very aromatic!

I would say it infuses to a nice medium golden brown color.

The taste is absolutely delightful!

I can taste individually the peach, the apple, the cinnamon, and the flowers…but they all jive well together! And the more I sip on this the more I like it! I’m drinking this HOT but assume it would be tremendous cold, too! WOW! This one is great! YUMMERS!

It turns out that smooth and malty black tea, along with some sour hibiscus and citrus rind, makes a decently convincing cobbler. Apple is a distinctive flavour here for me. It tastes lightly spiced too. It comes off as a bit tart but it’s not bad, especially when some of the astringency tones down a bit as it cools. Thanks for giving me the chance to try this, Jackie T!

This is alright, I enjoyed it but I don’t think I would buy more.

I’m drinking it iced, and there’s just a slightly off taste to it, which comes off to me as apple. It could be the peach, I don’t know, maybe it’s a combination of the two and the floral aspect? Because I don’t get much floral notes and there’s definitely some petals in here.

It’s an interesting base for a flavored tea, I wish more people used Assam for flavored black bases because it just makes it a bit more interesting.

Unlike other notes on here, I do get cinnamon. That’s why I made this iced, I did not expect to taste any given it seemed it was hard to find, but it is indeed present. And actually it’s not bad at all. It definitely comes across as a baked dessert, although yes, the baked good notes could be stronger. I suppose the assam helps with this too.

The other positive is that the apple does taste like apple rather than just providing a sweet, tart fruit flavor. The peach is actually what I feel like it’s lacking.

I do love how The Persimmon Tree uses hibiscus. You can’t really taste it, but it does taste like it’s boosting other flavors.

Purchased some samples from Persimmon Tree and this was the first one I tried.
I was pleased with the aroma in dry form and could really smell the hibiscus coming through and it had a very pleasing almost cobbler like aroma. I am not one for floral teas but the hibiscus was somehow just right in this one.
Brewed it was very fruity but not sweet. I think I would have preferred it a bit sweeter however I did not feel a need to add sweetener either.
Maybe I was too tired still, or too lazy, but I enjoyed it just fine without any sugars.
Something about how fresh it tasted – like peaches from the orchard was just fine with me this morning. I will have to have another cup but I really did not get the cinnamon in it.
It was a tiny bit astringent.

I received a sample of this from someone. I don’t remember who because it just got mixed in with all of the other samples D: So thank you to whoever sent me this!!
The aroma is nice. I’ll admit I kind of like the rooibos and black tea together. The rooibos gives it that baked kind of flavor. To me all of the flavors kind of blend together. Not really impressed with this tea.. I just like it. It’s an ok tea.

The black tea base is strong and malty. Very nice. One of the stronger black tea bases I’ve experienced when it comes to flavored black teas. It is very solid.

The peach and apple are well-balanced and the cinnamon is a light touch, this isn’t overly flavored or too spicy. It is just a very well conceived dessert tea with the emphasis placed squarely upon the tea.

I like it!

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me a bit of this tea to try.

Thank-you AlphaKitty for this nice little surprise. I must be on a Rooibos kick today. This has a nice flavoring that does not taste artificial. I think the black tea really helps balance this tea with the fruit flavors. I think the peach and apple may be a strange combination but maybe its just me.

Trying this even though my mouth is contaminated with too spicy freezer pizza. I can smell cinnamon and apple in the brewed tea and that’s making me a bit reluctant to take a sip. I am not a fan of cinnamon at all.

And it definitely tastes of far too much cinnamon for my tastebuds. I’m quite impressed with the apple flavour though. It actually tastes like apple rather than just ‘sourish fruit’ taste. I just wish it weren’t paired with cinnamon, though I know it’s fairly common to do that in baked goods. The peach flavour really only lends itself to tasting some over the top fruity flavour which is not doing this tea any favours either. Don’t like. Glad I only had the one sample.

This is a really nice tea though not quite what I expected when I brewed it. I’d really like to try it cold to see how the flavours change. For this morning, this is a great tea. I’m on the verge of getting sick, or at least my throat appears to be telling me that. I have gradually been figuring out that I’m not a fan of rooibos but in this tea the rooibos is so light that I don’t mind it.

Thanks JackieT for adding this to the swap box. Maybe I’m not in the mood for flavored black teas today. I seem to be striking out. This isn’t bad, it’s just ok. I get some apple, I get some peach, not really any cinnamon, and certainly no cobbler/crisp. I think I was looking for more sweet ooey gooey, bakery goodness and I just didn’t get that. I got more crisp apple, peach.

I have been waiting for these cute little samples from The Persimmon Tree to arrive all week! Well they came today and I decided to try the Peach Apple Crisp first. I really like this a lot. It is very smooth tasting to me. I can’t definitively say I can taste the peach or apple but the combination is nice. It could be a tiny bit “peachier” for my liking but I think I will try it iced next to see if it tastes fruitier that way. This company has $1.00 -$1.25 samples so it is a great way for me ( as a new tea tester/drinker) to try lots of different teas without buying a whole bag of something I don’t like…. Like red rooibos or honey bush …. But that is a different story.

Has not super thrilled about this hot, but decided to dump it over some ice and add some sugar and it makes a really nice iced peachy tea! Glad I decided to do that. I love iced peach tea!

Going to refrain from giving a rating on this, because the tea wasn’t bad at all, it just wasn’t at all what I expected. Peach Apple Crisp just sounds like it would be more of an almost fall/holiday flavor type tea. The Persimmon Tree website claims that it has “gala apple and cinnamon with a crisp floral finish” flavor note, but I could not taste one fleck of cinnamon or much apple either. If anything the rose makes this taste more along the lines of a slightly fruity flavored rose black tea mix.