Grapefruit Green

Tea type
Fruit Green Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Bitter, Citrus, Grapefruit, Green, Herbaceous, Lavender, Lemon, Grass, Melon, Tart, Citrusy, Sweet, Sour, Fruity, Astringent, Seaweed, Smooth, Spinach, Citrus Zest, Dry Grass, Tangy, Umami
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Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 65 oz / 1930 ml

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  • “Finally got around to cold brewing this one to have with lunch, and boy was it delicious! Lots of juicy grapefruit, no bitterness or astringency from the green tea. Super happy to have this one to...” Read full tasting note
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  • “My friend who loves black tea and puerh came over for lunch today. I made Vegetarian Tower, which is whatever veggies you have on hand, steamed, stacked on toasted English muffins, with Brie...” Read full tasting note
  • “Hello again grapefruit green! Let’s try you with honey! So I have bronchitis. Yay! bleh. Explain why I’m still sick and me getting over this is taking awhile. However, happy that it’s not messing...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Another LiberTEAs Goodie!!! YAY! This Green Flavored actually seems to intensify the scent while and post infusing…rather than losing aroma like most teas seem to. YAY! I think it’s more of a...” Read full tasting note
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From Lupicia

GRAPEFRUIT GREEN is our popular green tea blend scented with refreshing grapefruits. This tea has a mature taste with pleasant subtle bitterness of the fruit.

The essential oils in this tea may stain certain materials. Please refrain from using plastic containers, for the tea leaves or brewed tea, to prevent discoloration.

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105 Tasting Notes

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20 tasting notes

The smell alone is worth the price of admission. This is a wonderful light tea, good for an afternoon pick me up or getting you going in the morning.

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4 tasting notes

Smells more fruit-like than regular green teas, and has less of an aftertaste.

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1839 tasting notes

The TTB has arrived! So big, so many teas… no chance to try them all!
Tea #15

I think I have found great grapefruit tea…
but hard to get, indeed. It’s nice that it is available in the US Lupicia site, but still hard to get this to Europe. Oh wait, it’s on French site. I shouldn’t see that.

This is strong in grapefruit aroma, but sometimes aroma is all what tea is about. Luckily not this tea! It has got lovely citrusy flavours, especially the grapefruit. But I can see lemon mentioned by some. Green tea base is not so strong, but lovely too, a little grassy IMO.

Welp, I need more of this.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec 10 OZ / 300 ML

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1704 tasting notes

Free sample from recent order. Really liking it, though it’s a straightforward and pithy grapefruit tea. More white grapefruit than a red one. Bitter, but refreshing.

Flavors: Bitter, Citrus, Grapefruit, Green

ashmanra

I liked this one, also a sample sachet for me but a while back. Wish they had sent this one today instead of Piccolo.

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2021 sipdown no. 126

I cold brewed for 24 hours and it’s sadly just not the same. I mistakenly thought the grapefruit would pop in a cold brew and I couldn’t have been more wrong. All I’m getting now is bitterness from the green tea and no real grapefruit at all.

Preparation
3 g 14 OZ / 414 ML
Cameron B.

I think this one is at least partially flavored with essential oil, I wonder if that’s why the flavor seemed weak in a cold brew.

Courtney

Ahh, yes. That makes sense!

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676 tasting notes

I absolutely love all things grapefruit and of course green tea, but had doubts about how the two would go together. That and too many bad citrus flavored teas in the past gave me some trepidation. However, Lupicia has once again done a marvelous job with this blend and I enjoyed it more than any other citrus tea I’ve had before.

The tea has a delicious citrusy smell out of the bag. A powerful yet very pure and natural grapefruit aroma accented by orange and Meyer lemon. I chose to cold brew it at first as the idea of hot grapefruit wasn’t terribly appealing. It starts off herbaceous with lemon verbena and basil notes before settling into a mellow grapefruit flavor followed by a bright burst of meyer lemon peel in the aftertaste. The grapefruit flavor isn’t puckery or juicy like the flesh of the fruit but more like grapefruit rind. This one is like a way better version of the Tazo Mint Green tea I used to drink back in the dark ages.

I’ve brewed this a couple of times now and noticed towards the end of my cup, the flavoring starts tasting like lavender which I’m not crazy about. I finally hot steeped it recently and was quite pleased with the taste. Light but pleasant grapefruit flavor and there’s less of the lavender I was getting with the cold brew.

Flavors: Citrus, Grapefruit, Herbaceous, Lavender, Lemon

Preparation
Iced 2 g 8 OZ / 236 ML
Cameron B.

Yum! I need to start trying some of my group order teas!

Mastress Alita

I don’t even like actual grapefruits, but I enjoyed this tea when I got a free teabag sampler in an order once.

Kawaii433

I really like this one. It’s my favorite Lupicia tea.

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1216 tasting notes

This is a single teabag I got from some past Lupicia order as a sample. Grapefruit isn’t really my thing, but I figured I may as well just steep up the cup and get it out of my cupboard. I cold brewed it, probably letting it steep for a few hours in 350ml of ice cold water in the fridge while I was doing some washing up and food prep stuff in the kitchen.

This actually isn’t as jarring to me as I was expecting… maybe cold brewing made the grapefruit come across less bitter/acidic than I usually find it? (Or I wonder if the flavor is simply growing on me! I normally love tart/sour flavors, but have just never liked that one particular one for whatever reason…) This is actually pretty refreshing. It does taste like grapefruit, and I am getting a bit of a citrusy tang, but it isn’t overwhelmingly sour. The base tea is coming across very light (but it probably is quite old at this point); there is a subtle grassiness, and, oddly enough, a slight note of melon rind. Honestly, I really like this as an iced, cold brew tea, and I didn’t expect to at all, which is really surprising me! I’m not sure if I’d pick this over other citrus flavors, but I don’t think I’d turn down exploring other grapefruit teas a bit more if the opportunity arises in the future, either.

Flavors: Citrus, Grapefruit, Grass, Melon, Tart

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more 1 tsp 12 OZ / 350 ML

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681 tasting notes

Alright, a real sipdown for the day – 177/397.

This one found me through the EU TTB and Anna forever ago, and I’ve been putting off drinking it because it just terrifies me. I’m biased against grapefruit at the best of times because of the bitterness, and green tea because of the astringency I usually associate with it, so combined… don’t ask me why I picked it out of the box, I really have no idea (it was just a small sample, though). The fact that Lupicia recommend brewing this in boiling water made me super wary, but I also had a small sample of Happiness, another green tea which Lupicia recommend at boiling point, at ignored their instructions and got nowhere with the tea. So this time, instead of my usual parameters for green tea, I compromised and went with 90C. I honestly don’t know how long it was steeping because I forgot to set my timer, but I’m guessing around 3 minutes, so a little longer than recommended. I held my breath, took a sip and… surprisingly tasty! I don’t know why I was so worried. The green tea has held up well against the hotter temperature, and the grapefruit is bright and citrusy without being too bitter to enjoy. It has a slight sting and a bitterness to the end of the sip, but very manageable and it adds to the overall ‘grapefruit’ effect nicely. Surprisingly I enjoy this one much more than Happiness, which adds peach to the grapefruit and green tea, a flavour I typically love. It’s not something I would actively seek out, but I am impressed and happy I picked it out to try. I would definitely drink it again – I can see myself starting my day with a cup of this tea, a bowl of natural yoghurt and some toast while sitting on the veranda of a fancy apartment in a foreign city, stealing a moment of peace and quiet with a good book while my boyfriend walks our (imaginary) dog. Yes, I am very glad to have tried this one!

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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379 tasting notes

I love grapefruits. I buy a bag every week. I don’t care for sweet grapefruits though. I like them tart. Well, this tea captures what grapefruit tastes like… Maybe more like a pomelo because there is a little sweetness, the citrusy blast and then the “good” bitterness that kind of lingers for quite a while after you’ve finished eating a piece. It is mellow, not too tangy which is why I think of a pomelo more.

Again as with the other Lupicia that I tried today, it has a nice mild flavor but not as faint as the others. So far I got 3 infusions out of it, and it is still flavorful to me (2m, 2.5m, 3m) so I may go for another. I have no idea about resteeps when it comes to Western brew. I start with what they recommend and add 30 secs. Give me a holler if I’m doing it wrong. lol.

The description says “This tea has a mature taste”. I guess I’m immature because I got a chuckle out it. lol, What is a mature taste? If it has a mature taste, then I’ve been really mature for as long as I can remember hehe. I suppose it’s a good way to let the buyer know that it has “good” bitterness in it… And in this case, I am glad it has it. I dislike bitter unless its good bitter.^^ I like that it’s not too sweet and it tastes as a grapefruit should.

Highly recommended if you like grapefruit.

Flavors: Bitter, Citrusy, Grapefruit, Sweet

Preparation
4 g 7 OZ / 200 ML
tea-sipper

Your resteeps sound solid to me… and if it tastes good to you then you’re definitely doing it right! :D

Kawaii433

Whew, thanks! :D ^^

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1233 tasting notes

This has been in the avoid pile for awhile. The only time I eat grapefruit is when I’m sick and even then I somewhat loathe it. A citrus bomb of bitterness. Currently drinking this cold because I was eating it with Cajun shrimp and it’s hot out. If you like the taste of grapefruit you will enjoy this. As you open the bag the grapefruit aroma immediately hits your nose. The grapefruit flavor is spot on. No artificialness here. Green is the perfect base for it. If you don’t enjoy green tea don’t worry, you can barely taste it.

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