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Vanilla Cream Fruit Tea (BF68) from Upton Tea Imports

Steepster Score 3 Ratings Rate This Tea

68/100

Vanilla Cream Fruit Tea (BF68)

Fruit Herbal Blend by Upton Tea Imports

A caffeine-free fruit tea with hibiscus flowers, apple bits, rose hips, genuine Bourbon vanilla and flavoring.

3 Tasting Notes

mlc
72
mlc

Let’s first be clear about one thing: the dry tea smells awful. The last ingredients here are “genuine bourbon vanilla” and “artificial flavor,” and at least one of those is dissolved in some kind of unpleasant solvent. Seriously, I imagine that there are teenagers huffing this stuff somewhere in a (presumably vain) attempt to get high.

When it’s actually brewed, though, things are much more pleasant. The vanilla flavor actually mostly fades away, leaving a reasonable (if unexceptional) fruit tea, nice for chilly autumn/winter evenings.

wnd57
45

The Hibiscus leaves makes this tea tart. Once sweetened it’s ok.

kuanyin
56

This is OK, but barely. I use it to blend with other teas, but I will not buy it again. The real vanilla is drowned out by the fake vanilla.