Product and Tea Reviews
Reviews of various products related to tea, including foods, tea preparation equipment, teas, and herbals.
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Christmas Tea Gifts
It is that time, darlings! Well, actually, I guess I’m late, because Walmart, Dollar General, and The English Tea Store all have put up their Christmas displays. Yes, Halloween has not yet come, and Christmas shopping has begun. Then there are those people who shop all year. I applaud their diligence, but I myself have Continue reading
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Review — The English Tea Store’s Chocolate Orange Black Tea
Name: Chocolate Orange Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black Tea, Flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: The holiday trifecta of diet doom is fast approaching: Halloween with its mini-candy bars, Thanksgiving with cornbread and candied sweet potatoes and Christmas, which supplies me with enough calories to hold me for a full year. I need some flavored Continue reading
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Review — The English Tea Store’s Scottish Caramel Toffee Pu-erh
Name: Scottish Caramel Toffee Pu-erh Brand: English Tea Store Type: Pu-erh, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: I do confess that I don’t normally think of Scotland and pu-erh as having any sort of natural connection to each other, though perhaps that is due to a lack of imagination on my part. I’m glad, though, that Continue reading
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Sylvakandy Estate Ceylon Tea — Sheer Delight!
Sylvakandy Estate Tea from Ceylon just upped my taste standards when it comes to a nice cuppa black tea. The taste is quite distinctive from teas grown in the Assam area of India despite the varietal of Camellia Sinensis being the same (Camellia Sinensis assamica). A lot of Ceylon teas are machine-processed and bagged, but Continue reading
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Review — The English Tea Store’s Hawaiian Colada Rooibos
Name: Hawaiian Colada Rooibos Brand: English Tea Store Type: Herbal tisane, rooibos Form: Loose leaf Review: If you like pineapple, The English Tea Store’s Hawaiian Colada Rooibos ought to be up your alley. I’ve never had a flavored tea or tisane in which the pineapple flavor is so strong. While this isn’t a bad thing, Continue reading
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Review — The English Tea Store’s Godiva Roche Rooibos
Name: Godiva Roche Rooibos Brand: English Tea Store Type: Herbal Tisane, Rooibos Form: Loose leaf Review: Looking for a chocolate rooibos? Godiva Roche Rooibos is a good one. Made from rooibos, cacao beans and peels, vanilla and what appears to be a handful of calandula petals, this is certainly a rich treat for chocolate fans. Continue reading
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Review — The English Tea Store’s Pumpkin Spice Black Tea
Name: Pumpkin Spice Black Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: It’s that time of year again: Coffee houses and ice cream retailers are trotting out calorie laden “pumpkin spice” lattes, milkshakes and ice creams, and who can blame them? The flavor of pumpkin meshed with allspice, cinnamon and other Continue reading
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Review — Pearl River Green Tea by the English Tea Store
Name: Pearl River Green Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Green tea, Chinese, Organic Form: Loose leaf Review: Chinese green tea lovers who are looking for a reasonably priced organic option should consider the English Tea Store’s Pearl River Green Tea. Its olive green, slightly twisty leaves infuse to a green-gold, light/medium-bodied liquor with a Continue reading
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Review — St. Paul’s London Breakfast Tea by The English Tea Store
Name: St. Paul’s London Breakfast Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black tea, blend Form: Teabags (stringless) Review: The English Tea store describes this tea as containing “hints of Earl Grey”: After inspecting the dry leaf of St. Paul’s London Breakfast Tea, I noted that it was a blend of some time of machine-processed (CTC) Continue reading
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Review — Sunshine Lemon Rooibos by the English Tea Store
Name: Sunshine Lemon Rooibos Brand: English Tea Store Type: Rooibos, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: Rooibos is my favorite herb for steeping, and this blend is truly delicious. Sunshine Lemon Rooibos combines the sweet, slightly earthy flavor of rooibos with lemon flavoring and dried lemongrass, creating a desert-like tisane that is a lovely alternative to Continue reading
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