Tea – Flavored
Use for true teas (not herbals) with fruits, flowers, spices, etc., added to them. Includes jasmines, spiced chais, etc.
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Review — Rose by Golden Moon
Name: Rose Brand: Golden Moon Type: Flavored black tea Form: Loose leaf Review: For reasons that I don’t fully understand, flowers as flavors never really caught on in America. If you visit the United Kingdom, you’ll find all manner of rose and violet-based confections and chocolates in stores, but nary a whiff of these floral Continue reading
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Chais for the Holidays
I love chai — I love the winter holiday season — so it’s natural to have chais for the holidays! Well, actually, chai is good anytime. It just seems to be especially good this time of year. All that chilly weather and those leaves putting on their color show and then drifting into piles on 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 — Golden Moon Moroccan Mint
Name: Moroccan Mint Brand: Golden Moon Type: Green tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: Mint teas and tisanes are ubiquitous, and as a tea reviewer, I confess to getting a bit tired of them. While the combination of mint and tea can be very nice, tea companies are not always careful about quality control. Bad Continue reading
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Oolong Orange Blossom Tea and “The Secrets of Jin-Shei”
Oolong is a traditional Chinese tea that is only partly fermented, giving it an in-between character that lacks the bitterness and body of black tea, yet is richer and rounder than a conventional green. English Tea Store’s Oolong Orange Blossom Estate Tea is a particularly satisfying rendition of this Far East treat, with the gentle Continue reading
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Thoughts on Chocolate Teas
Chocolate and tea — two great tastes drawn irresistibly together through the corridors of time — become even more prevalent during the Winter Holidays. Believe it or not, what seems like such a natural combination now was not always so. “Really?” you ask. “Really,” I say. In the beginning the world was innocent and chocolate Continue reading
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Spotlight on Flavored Tea
There are those tea drinkers (myself among them) who believe that a good cup of tea needs nothing else, whether it be milk, cream, sweeteners, or lemon. But everyone likes what they like, and, of course, there are many people who could not even conceive of drinking a cup of tea without assorted and sundry Continue reading
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Teas That Are a Real Treat
Trick-or-treaters driving you buggy with their routine of ringing the doorbell and shouting “Trick or Treat”? Had a bad day at your place of work? Relax with a cup of tea so special that it’s a treat in itself. Autumn around here means things like pumpkins, corn harvests, hearty and hot dishes like soups full 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 — 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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