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Anlina drank Pink Grapefruit by Secret Garden Tea Company

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I am both leery about grapefruit tisanes, and enthusiastic to try them all. I love grapefruit but it’s easy to do it wrong, and just have it end up tasting like a cup of sour water. So I tried this with both a bit of excitement and trepidation.

The dry leaf is chunky and smells of grapefruit and oranges. It has that really intense, distinctive grapefruit smell that’s a bit bitter, a bit sweet and a lot tart. So far so good.

I used a heaping teaspoon for 8oz of boiling water and let it steep for 5 minutes. It came out a little weak, so back it went to steep for a few more. I didn’t time it the second time around, but it probably got about 8 min of steeping total.

With a nice long steep, this doesn’t disappoint. I think it’s got a bit more sweetness and a wee bit less back of the mouth kick than Tea Story’s Pink Grapefruit (which is one of my all time favourite tisanes), and this one has orange notes on the nose which are different, but they are very similar and this measures up very well.

I suspect this would be awesome iced. It’s very fresh and juicy, and as it cools the grapefruit gets a bit more intense, with that slight tongue numbing/tingling that comes from fresh grapefruit.

Thank you to Tiffany at Secret Garden for the sample!

Flavors: Bitter, Citrus, Grapefruit, Orange, Sweet, Tangy, Tart

Preparation

Boiling 8 min or more 1 tsp 7 OZ / 207 ML

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mmm thanks for the reviews on these! I really want to get an order in with them soon-ish

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mmm thanks for the reviews on these! I really want to get an order in with them soon-ish

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

Location

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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