Wild Strawberry

Good bright fruity herbal tea. Had a nice light aroma of strawberries with overtones of lemon; not as much strawberry flavor as I would have liked, instead having a stronger lemon finish. Good with honey.

When I received my new package of samples from Adagio, the AC was out at my place, so I decided to begin with this tea, cold-brewed and heavily sugared. The resultant beverage was a pretty pink tisane that smelled like strawberry gummies. It was sweet and light, with a good strong strawberry flavor (though I would have preferred it to be a little stronger). It was a bit too heavy on the apple for my taste, but over all, it made for a tasty and refreshing iced tea—a nice escape from the heat of an apartment without air conditioning in Florida!

I’m not a big tisane fan, but I’ve been looking for a late-night tea that will work for me before I go to bed. My stomach is really sensitive to tea at night largely because of the meds I’m on. Even so, I thought I’d buy a sample and brew it up.

It’s actually a pretty good tisane. Lots of strawberry flavor and the apple adds quite a bit of body to it. I added natural cane sugar because I tend to think of tisanes as weak, but this works pretty well. Better than most. I may have to buy it for the evenings.

ashmanra’s Sipdown Challenge – “A cold brew tea”

Picked up several iced tea pouches from Adagio, most of them fruit tisanes. This is the first one I’m trying! The directions said to use one pouch per quart of water, but that seemed like a ridiculously small amount of leaf to me, so I used two. Cold steeped overnight in my 1L Takeya pitcher.

I think two bags was the right call, it’s not overly strong and I feel like it would’ve been watery with just one. The general flavor is sort of strawberry Jell-O mixed with hibiscus and a bit of apple. It’s not amazing or special, but it does make a refreshing cold brew. I’m tempted to add just a touch of sweetener to it, as the sweet-tart balance is just a tad too far to the tart side of things IMO. Maybe I’ll try that with my next glass! Honey seems like it would be suitable…

Steeping recommendation of 5-10 minutes. Steeped for 6-7 minutes. Almost a strawberry taste. Reminiscent of playdoh – not quite but something similar. Tried 11.2018.

Ok, just a quickie update.

I had a genius idea today. At least I thought it was genius.

This tea, in my experience, was rather tart and unpleasant. So I figured why not add some almond milk and make a strawberries & cream sort of drink.

So, this time, steeped tea 7 minutes, and made into my traditional 2 splendas/almond milk latte style. The result? BRILLIANT! It’s like drinking a strawberry milkshake, only thinner. The color of the soup is a bit off when you do it this way, it sort of makes a milky off-purple. But the taste is amazeballs. I think I will do this every time now. I may actually reorder this tea just to make into this style latte. This is delicious.

I remembered loving this tea years ago (apparently I rated it 100, but never left a review) so I picked up 3 oz in my recent order. The first time, I accidentally steeped my pitcher of it for 45 minutes, so I expected sour sadness, but I’m relieved to say that it’s delicious! Nice strawberry flavor that’s great cold. It’s not super authentic, and honestly not that special, but I do enjoy it. I do a second cold steep with each batch to really squeeze my money’s worth out of it. My 3 oz has made about five large pitchers. I’ve found that the flavor probably isn’t special enough to order again, but I haven’t minded my many cups of this at all.

This is another tea my coworker asked for to give as a graduation gift (actually, she asked for my Raspberry Limeade, but my stash was way too low on that to gift it so I had to look for a replacement and decided on this). After giving out the 15g for her samplers what was left was enough to do an iced tea quart, so… another sipdown! Eh, fruit teas go fast, especially when only having an ounce to begin with.

This one also came from Snake River Tea in Boise, but was quite obviously sourced from Adagio from the name and ingredient list (they also only carry it during the warmer months out here in Idaho, so they market it specifically during iced tea weather). Since I made it iced myself, I can see why, because it is a rather tasty fruit tea with a strong strawberry flavor. There was a lot of hibiscus and rose hips in the base, but honestly, the flavor has come out pretty sweet and with more strawberry flavor than I was expecting, and I have a strong strawberry aftertaste left in my mouth, as well. The flavoring gives this a pretty strong strawberry flavor so it doesn’t taste quite as fruit punchy as I’m used to with iced hibiscus, and the apple does a lot to add natural sweetness. I personally don’t need sweetener as I like hibiscus teas and find the slight tanginess very pleasant, but for those that like their strawberry on the very sweet side, a little sweetener will probably do you fine.

I do think I like this one better than the last iced tea I had with a strong strawberry note, which was T2’s Riotous Rose, as that tea had a noticable currant flavor that came in just under the strawberry and I kept finding myself wishing the strawberry was more dominant… and this tea is just that — a nice, dominant strawberry flavor, with a slightly tangy fruit tea base.

Wild strawberry is absolutely awesome iced in the summer as an overnight mason-jar brew. It’s just like blended berries, but without the seeds. I love the flavor.

Jesus Christ, I hope you like your tisanes fruity.

This tisane is very tart and very fruity. I don’t mind fruity herbals now and then, but I do not particularly like this one.