Blood Orange

This aromatic tea begins to tickle the olfactory senses as soon as you open the tin. As the water approaches its boiling point, excitement builds as you prepare your tea pot.

The tea has an overall tart taste – but in a good way. In some way, it resembles the frosting of a cake. While a delicious accent to full-bodied whole, frosting alone is hardly appealing. At some level, I believe this is what is going on with Blood Orange. It is without doubt a charming and delicious tea but it fails to deliver a holistic tea experience.

I ordered a 8 oz for my sister who is an avid fan of Orange flavors. The tea is a dark pink with a strong perfume of deep Orange. I admit that I liked the aroma of the tea better than the taste. If I could devise a way to turn the tea into a potpourri, I could make a fortune.

The tea itself is sour and lacking in what I would call complete character. Spiced with sugar, it’s perfect for kids. I liked it too, but it needed something to carry it to the finish line… A dark spice like Cinnamon would work, I think… Bottom line is, if you’re crazy about sugaring up your tea and love Orange, the tea is ideal.

So I went rogue and ordered a sample of basically every fruit tisane that Adagio makes (along with a couple of white teas), so that I could try all of them cold brewed and see if there are any I love. So far I’ve just tried some of their iced tea pouches, and there were a couple that were tasty enough, so I thought I’d give some of the loose leaf varieties a try.

This is just okay. It’s the sort of tart orange flavor that makes me think of Vitamin C chewables, or Emergen-C drink power. I do like the hibiscus with it, though overall it obviously becomes very sour. I could see adding a touch of sweetener to this one to balance the flavors a bit.

Not a keeper for me, but I won’t mind sipping through one pitcher of it.

This is a very potent tea. The orange is more or a vitamin C orange with lots of tang and floral from the hibiscus. It actually reminds me a lot of Teavanas old orange blossom blend. I’ve had it in blends and added more water after the brew and it tasted less harsh. Overall good, but I can see why someone wouldn’t like it.

Has a barely citrus flavor. Tea steeped light pink, very thin color. Drinkable, but mostly tastes like warm orange-y water. Didn’t want to steep very long initially d/t other fruit teas becoming bitter – steeped 3 minutes.

Tried again and steeped tea 5 minutes. Tea smells like orange medicine. Taste is a stronger citrus flavor, good and drinkable. Tried 10.2018

Very sweet, tangy and citrusy- just what it promises! The nose smells wonderful and rich, and very fresh. The tea turns out a beautiful shade of ruby and is very impressive- I’d recommend a glass teacup to show it off garnished with an orange wedge or something for decoration. It’s not my flavor but my fiance loves it!

While I do enjoy the orange and spices, the hibiscus could be lessened for sure. The sour/acidic notes could be reduced to make this a much more drinkable tea.

Received as an iced tea pouch sample with September 2016 subscription. Not amazing, but good. Pretty intense citrus flavor, could brew it less strong than the instructions.

I got this a taster from Adagio. It was very tart and required sweeter. I used some blackberry honey which mixed nicely and made it taste even better.

I’ve made this as a hot tea and a cold brew. Definitely more of a cold brew but still nothing exciting.

There was something of a woody medicinal taste like you sometimes get in a rooibos but this didn’t mention rooibos in the ingredients so it may be just me.

I was looking for more of a regular orange-y flavor but this seems to have an excess of hibiscus which is not a favorite of mine.