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Full review’s now up: http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/1712/tea-review-tea-forte-forte-breakfast/ Having had this in a small quantity, I’ve decided now I’d like it by the pound :)
My new acronym for Assam is A Specially Strong Awakening Morning tea. This one fits perfectly. Further review and introspection (gladly!) forthcoming for www.itsallabouttheleaf.com, but suffice it to say that as an Assam fan, this one moves toward the top of my list.
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag
Water: hot spigot
Steep Time: a little over 2 minutes (and then I went to have a discussion in another cube, not sure how long)
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: cinnamon, natural barky
Steeped Tea Smell: natural cinnamon, sweet
Flavor: black tea and natural cinnamon
Body: Full
Aftertaste: barky, sweet
Liquor: translucent dark red-brown
Delicious, reminds me of Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice.
It came as part of the Tea Forte “Holiday Spice” set of 20 silken infusers black and herbal teas. I purchased it specifically for the Winter Chai. The set listed on the website includes 20 pyramid infusers with Five infusers each of: Winter Chai, Sweet Orange Spice, Ginger and Vienna Cinnamon. Apparently this box does not have Sweet Orange Spice and instead has Winter Spice.
Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/11/tea-forte-teabag-black-tea-vienna.html
Preparation
Review’s up at www.itsallabouttheleaf.com. Starts something like this:
Many lemon-mint based herbal blends are pretty nondescript. It can be difficult to tell where one ingredient ends and the other begins. On the other hand, the ingredient line-up for Chamomile Citron is like a bunch of feisty schoolkids competing for your attention.
Finally had the opportunity to sit down and write a thoughtful and positive review on this one for www.itsallabouttheleaf.com. Then as hubby wandered by, I stuck the cup under his nose and asked, “What do you smell?”
“Bug spray.”
Rest assured…it’s better than that!
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 silken infuser pyramid
Water: 12? ounces hot spigot water (140°F ?)
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes (walking to my desk + steep.it)
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: cinnamon, clove
Steeped Tea Smell: cinnamon, clove, mulling spice
Flavor: mild black tea with cinnamon
Body: Light
Aftertaste: cinnamon, spice
Liquor: translucent light orange-brown
Much milder than I expected. This would not be a morning cup of wake-me-up tea.
Mellow, spicy, and makes me think of mulled apple cider. I am enjoying the cup, but not sure I would seek this itself.
Post-Steep Additives: honey stick, sweeter, and spicier
It came as part of the Tea Forte “Holiday Spice” set of 20 silken infusers black and herbal teas. I purchased it specifically for the Winter Chai. The set listed on the website includes 20 pyramid infusers with Five infusers each of: Winter Chai, Sweet Orange Spice, Ginger and Vienna Cinnamon. Apparently this box does not have Sweet Orange Spice and instead has Winter Spice.
Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/10/tea-forte-teabag-black-tea-winter-spice.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 infuser
Water: 2oz skyy vodka, 2oz ginger ale
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes
Served: Cold
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: lavender, citrus, chemical
Steeped Tea Smell: lavender
Flavor: vodka, ginger ale, lavender
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: citrus
Liquor: translucent pink
After 3 minutes the flavor was weak, so put the infuser back in, while I ate dinner, then it was much stronger.
This is from the Tea Forte cocktails collection.
I like it, I don’t love it, but that may have to do with the vodka?
Very pleasant aroma.
Images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/10/tea-forte-teabag-white-tea-lavender.html
Preparation
So very interesting. In a good way.
I was already purchasing the holiday spice set for the winter chai, and had seen these coctail infusers before, and decided to give them a try, i’m really excited to try the chai!
I can see why. I may have to check these out myself.
This smells like orange and spice and it is very nice! As for the taste…it’s more spice than orange…or should I say…at the beginning of the sip it’s spicy and the end of the sip is sweet orange. I like the ending of the sip better. I also like this tea cooled down and/or iced better…seems to make it more sweet. The more I sip this as it gets colder I like it more, yes, indeed!
I am revisiting this Earl Grey. This particular cup comes from the organics collection, and it is a bagged tea – but not the pyramid sachet for which Tea Forté is probably best known. This one was in their newer eco-bags which are unbleached, conventional style tea bags, but instead of the staple on the top of the bag, it is knotted.
Interestingly enough, I am finding this even better than my previous experiences with the Earl Grey from Tea Forté, and I’m not sure if that has anything to do with the way it is bagged, or if it has something more to do with the fact that these eco-teabags are sealed in a foil pouch versus the origami-ish, folded pyramid paper. I suspect it is the latter, because of the freshness factor.
Anyway, this is a delicious bagged Earl Grey: bold, rich and flavorful. A good level of bergamot. Enjoying this immensely.
Starting my day with Earl Grey! I really like Tea Forté’s Earl Grey, it has a very brisk and invigorating flavor. The orange with the bergamot softens the sharpness of the bergamot just a little, while enhancing it’s citrus qualities.
Delicious!
Preparation
I was just starting to consider which tea with which I’d like to start my day, when the doorbell rang… it was UPS delivering my package from Tea Forté! This is part of the winter collection from Tea Forte.
After reading the tasting notes on here about this tea, I’m a bit taken back, because I really am enjoying this.
It is really quite tasty. The flavor is sweet yet it has just enough heat from the spice to it to keep it from being too sweet. The black tea base is mild enough to not overpower the delicious orange, cinnamon and clove flavors, but it is still smooth and provides a nice backdrop to the flavors.
Preparation
Retrying this one. Better than I remember…giving it a few more points. Aroma is more Hazelnut Truffle like than I remember it too! There seems to be more chocolate in it, too…as well as nutty-goodness! Less of the other ingredients that seemed to interrupt the overall flavor before. Perhaps they improved this one???
This smells mostly like Hazelnut. I can taste a lot of the hazelnut too! I think the coconut is more in the aftertaste and the chocolate hints are very VERY slight. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this one until after about 3 sips. It’s pretty good but would LOVE more chocolate. Pretty good tho!
I received the new Holiday Offerings from Tea Forte today and this was the first one I tried.
It smells mostly of peach which I like. Once steeped…still smells like peach. I can smell a hint of cinnamon. Taste-wise I can taste quite a bit of cinnamon, actually. I can also taste the peach. I think the cinnamon and the peach are almost equal in strength…maybe 60/40 in favor of the peach. Personally I would like more peach and less Cinnamon. I think the vanilla is lost in these two flavors but I’m not really heartbroken about that. I was taken back by my first sip thinking the spice was too much…but it grew on me a little bit as the liquid cooled a room temp for 2 or 3 minutes. This isn’t too shabby but the cinnamon is a little strong that I had hoped. Overall tho I will give it about a 75 – but not much more.
Such a fruity currant aroma, but got nilch flavor in the taste. It tasted like a sweet black tea with such a teasing scent of currants. I was really hoping for a great currant flavor in this too!
Preparation
KTeas used to have a great Currant Flavored Tea!!!!
Cool thanks, I will check this one out. I’ve got a large stash of Adagio’s currant, but after that is through, I will give it a shot.
This is the first of three samples I received that I am trying from Tea Forte.
I love Tea Forte’s packaging for their bagged teas. They are in a nylon/mesh bag, with a bendable leaf that sprouts out of the top of the bag (which allows you to hook it over your cup while steeping).
The leaves look to be a good size within the teabag, and they have room to unfurl once the water hits them. I steeped this cup in 170F water for two and a half minutes. The wet leaves have a hint of sweetness to them, but I’m not getting much else in the aroma.
Green Tango steeps up a bright marigold with a greenish tinge. Getting the slightest sweetness to the taste with a bit of hay on the aftertaste. This is a very subtle tea. The cup finished quickly, but nothing memorable in drinking this. I’m not sure if I’d purchase this tea, but I certainly wouldn’t refuse a cup from a friend.
Preparation
Did you receive the samples from the company or did someone send it to you? If it was the former, mind sharing with us how? :)
I wish it was from the company directly. It was from a box of miscellaneous samples from a tea review blog “its all about the leaf” that I’m finally getting around to reviewing teas from. I’m a procrastinator :(
Ah, I see, thanks for letting me know. :)
I can’t really get past the black pepper in this…It’s like at the beginning of the sip it’s intent is to be a sweet yet spicy chai but then the idea gets thrown out the window into being all about the black pepper. It’s extremely dark in color and it’s a little artificial tasting in every other way but the black pepper. It’s weird – I can finish the cup but I can’t say as I like it much.
Nice review at It’s All About the Leaf!!! :)
Thank you kindly, ma’am … I’ve been really enjoying the ones fellow Steepsters have posted there. (In the interest of trying to be a fairly interesting, if unprofessional, reviewer, I try to spend a little more care on those than my usual ungrammatical stream-of-consciousness ramblings over here :)