Product and Tea Reviews
Reviews of various products related to tea, including foods, tea preparation equipment, teas, and herbals.
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Review — Stash Strawberry Pomegranate Herbal Red “Tea”
Name: Strawberry Pomegranate Herbal Red Tea Brand: Stash Type: Rooibos tisane, flavored Form: Paper tea bag Review: One of my great pet peeves is the trend of calling rooibos “red tea.” Rooibos, a shrub native to South Africa, is not a true tea at all, but produces a very nice, honey-sweet tisane (herbal infusion). It Continue reading
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Review — Golden Moon Jasmine Pearls
Name: Jasmine Pearls Brand: Golden Moon Type: Green tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf/pearls Review: Jasmine tea is another type of tea that is easy to do wrong. Jasmine is a lovely fragrance and flavor, but cheap jasmine essence that is poured over bad tea produces a nasty cup and contributes to the blanket condemnation heaped Continue reading
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Review — Tiger Wing ChocoMint Mate
Name: ChocoMint Brand: Tiger Wing Type: Black tea / yerba mate blend Form: Paper bagged tea, individually wrapped Review: So what if it’s in a paper tea bag? This stuff is tasty! Plus, its a chocolate fix in a convenient, virtually calorie-free form. What’s not to love? For those of you not in the know, Continue reading
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Review — Golden Moon Irish Breakfast Special Reserve
Name: Irish Breakfast Special Reserve Brand: Golden Moon Type: Black tea, breakfast blend Form: Loose Leaf Review: I confess that I was taken aback when I first examined the dry leaves of Irish Breakfast Special Reserve. I was expecting the broken, choppy leaves of a traditional “breakfast blend”, but instead found myself inspecting long, twisty Continue reading
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Review — Pumpkin Spice Black Tea
The Subject: Pumpkin Spice Black Tea from The English Tea Store. Water temperature: 212° F Steeping time:5 minutes Tea type: Black Scents, flavorings added: Rooibos, cinnamon, pumpkin flavor Aroma, dry tea leaves: Cinnamon, vanilla, apple-ish Aroma in the cup, plain: Cinnamony Taste in the cup, plain: Not bitter, cinnamony, roasty, apple-ish, vanilla-ish Aroma in the Continue reading
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Review — Tiger Wing Taro Vanilla Cream
Name: Taro Vanilla Cream Brand: Tiger Wing Type: Green tea, herbal blend Form: Paper tea bags, individually wrapped Review: Do you ever get cravings for a fingerfull of cake frosting? If so, try this tea. Yes, it really is that good. Tiger Wing (the bagged-tea producing offshoot of Golden Moon) blended green mate (a stimulant Continue reading
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Review — Golden Moon’s Pu-Erh
Name: Pu-Erh Brand: Golden Moon Type: Pu-Erh, shu/cooked Form: Loose leaf Review: Pu-Erh is perhaps best described as an “acquired taste”. Processed differently than most teas, it doesn’t taste much like the way we think tea ought to taste. Still, it can be quite delicious, as Golden Moon’s Pu-Erhproves. While pu-erh is often sold packed Continue reading
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Review — Tiger Wing Calmation
Name: Calmation Brand: Tiger Wing Type: Herbal tisane Form: Paper bagged tea, individually wrapped Review: This is a curious blend, even coming from those crazy folks over at Tiger Wing. They blended green mate, a stimulant herb from South America, with lavender and chamomile, two stalwarts of many a “bedtime” herbal blend. According to Tiger Continue reading
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Review — Stash Organic Cascade Mint
Name: Organic Cascade Mint Brand: Stash Type: Herbal tisane, peppermint and spearmint blend Form: Paper teabag, individually wrapped Review: Mint lovers rejoice: This is the tisane you’ve been waiting for. Cascade Mint is a part of Stash’s organic line, blending both peppermint and spearmint into one tasty drink. I love Stash’s decision to blend two Continue reading
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Review — White Licorice Tea by Golden Moon
Name: White Licorice Brand: Golden Moon Type: White tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: I admit to being somewhat skeptical when I first read this tea’s label. See, I am one of those weird people who doesn’t like licorice (the black, chewy kind) but does like anise in small doses. I feared that this “White Continue reading
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