English Rose Tea

Interesting tea. I only really liked it when it was sweetened. But I didn’t get enough rose with all the fruit. The rose flavor only really popped out occasionally, and one time, popped out as a soapy flavor. Which I didn’t really enjoy.

Overall, not a bad tea, but not one I’ll reach for again.

Now, on to another Angrboda tea… :)

The last of my three England teas. A perfect example of how my choice of tea is easily influenced. I’m not particularly interested in rose teas and I only have a little experience with them, but I was in England. It’s called English Rose. How could I not buy it? Seriously?

The dry leaves smell surprisingly fruity and sweet. Like there’s some kind of berry in it. It prompted me to take a closer look at the box. It is indeed a Ceylon and Keemun blend with rose petals in it, but it also has flavouring by something called ‘jackfruit’. I’ve never heard of that before. Turns out it’s the fruit from a tree of the mulberry family and it’s native to southern and southeast Asia.

Excuse me, but that doesn’t strike me as very English sounding. I’m just saying!

Anyway, that would account for the fruity sweet aroma. It’s present after brewing as well, but not as cloyingly sweet. It reminds me a little of an average tropical fruit flavoured black, which makes me wonder how often it’s actually used in tea flavouring. It would definitely count as a tropical fruit.

Hm. Not the best tea I’ve ever had, I have to say. It does have a good deal of rose on the back-end of the sip, but the stuff in between is just tropically flavoured black. Wikipedia tells me that jackfruit is supposed to taste sort of like a tart banana (how odd!), but I find neither tartness nor bananananess in this.

It’s drinkable. It’s even a kind of interesting flavour. But I wouldn’t buy it again. I think I’ll need a little experimentation with leaf dosage on this one.

My aunt was in Durham for July to work on her degree. Luckily, she brought me back some tea! I am fairly certain this is the tea I have, though mine is a 50 count of teabags rather than loose. I was thrown off at first by the talk of mangos and tropical fruits because I expected a black tea with rose (and nothing else) but the smell was very enticing. My grandmother thought it smelled terrible, but she mostly likes to mock my teas.

Last night, the beau and I decided to try it out. We sat around drinking tea with candles lit. Sounds romantic, right? Well, let me add that we were playing Magic. You know, the card game. Yup, we’re cool. Anyway, the tea actually impressed me. The black tea was very mild and the “troical” flavour more forward but in general it was still on the milder side. Granted, we steeped it a little weak, but I really enjoyed it. It was wonderful to sit and sip mindlessly which is exactly what I need sometimes. Definitely reliable and quite tasty, but I wouldn’t call it English Rose. I don’t know much about Rose teas but I didn’t identify any rose flavour.

I rediscovered this tea in the back of my cupboard and although I don’t remember it being fantastic, I thought I would try it again.

The song I have paired this with…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHNHiADRxo

This tea smells very fruity but I can’t smell much rose. The taste is pleasant, but I still don’t get much rose. The box lists mango as one of the flavourings – in my opinion, there is too much mango.

However, although it doesn’t taste much like rose, it is certainly a tasty tea. Not a go-to tea, but one I might reach for if I wanted something a bit different.

I got this tea from my wife for our 4th anniversary, along with the teapot and teacup that started me on this adventure in the massive world of tea.

It’s a nice drink, but it is very easy to over steep it and it becomes quite bitter pretty quickly. I do love the smell, but the taste doesn’t quite live up to it. Still, an enjoyable occasional cup.

Let’s face it, it’s not good.

The rose flavour doesn’t stand out all that much, the taste is indeterminately fruity more than anything else, and the fruit flavour overpowers the tea. And every now and then, a really odd, artificial taste that I can’t place comes through. I’ve drank this four or five times, but now it just sits at the back of the cupboard because I really don’t like it at all.

I like this tea a lot. It does have a very summer smell out of the packet, although the rose isn’t as distinguishable from the fruit as some might hope from the tea’s name. This probably explains some of other reviewers feelings.

I have found the taste varies a lot depending on steep time. The longer you steep the more the rose influence is lost to the black tea. Because of this I usually taste a spoonful along the way to get the right time to finish steeping.

I drink this tea on my own at home, and therefore I only make enough for one cup. I’ve found the taste of rose and fruit can vary a lot depending on what you get on the spoons you put in, so if I can’t see much rose going in I will add a bit more to try and keep each mug balanced.

I find the taste has the correct balance of floral and sweet tones rose, and it’s a great way to pick the mood up over a very wet winter.

This is sort of a dud, I expected something different – more rose, more flavoured. As it is, it smells very nice, though not rose, a lychee like smell instead, not at all english! Pretty dried rose petals scattered round. It has some flavour, but it is a bit meh as a tea.

Bland.

English Rose tea by WHITTARD is nice to drink
At night before bed. You can use a Tea ball or
Big Tea spoon to put you leaves in or you
Can use the bags also from WHITTARD.

Glad someone before me already came right out to say this is a dud. I tried it in tea-bag & loose form. Both were extremely vile & pukey. There’s NO ROSE to me. Even as a fruit tea, it doesn’t q work. Would give this minus ratings if I could.

The smell reminds me of summer. I do like also the taste, it’s not too flavoured black tea.

The best English Rose teas I’ve had so far haven’t actually been English, and this one continues the trend. Even though it says “a hint of tropical fruit” has been added, there’s a hint of fruit, but there’s also just a hint of rose. Neither flavour is particularly bold or characteristic (if anything, the fruit might come out just a little more) as I’d usually expect from a rose tea. Brewing longer doesn’t make a difference either.

Well, it’s so-so, but it’s nothing interesting.

Emm..Actually I have this tea on my shelf over 3 years long and just forgot to drink it until last Sunday when I cleaned my stuff on it. Although it has been over the fresh time to drink it, it still has a fruity fragrance when I open the package. I used two-cup teapot to steep it with the boiling water. It has a milky sweet of the taste but the tea taste itself is not obvious any more.