Not gonna lie, I’m kind of disappointed by this one.
It smells amazing in the bag, like raspberry jam…and then tastes like a vaguely fruity regular green tea. Not like pomegranate at all. When I think of poms, I think of rich and tart-sweet, something that would blend great with raspberry…but it doesn’t do any of that.
If I hadn’t smelled it first, and / or didn’t know what it was supposed to be, it might be nice as a green with some vague flavor, but yeah. No. It’s an okay tea, but not great.
This tea is so good?? The first one so far that is buy in a bigger dose!
In the bag, it smells phenomenal. So fruity, so sweet, like strawberry jam or fruit leather or some other very fruity thing made of real fruit.
I’m not sure how much actual tea is in here, but it’s pretty in the hand!
The packet says 3m but my tea timer app said 4 for white tea, so I split the difference at three and a half (ish), and it was light colored and light flavored as I’d expect from a white tea. The strawberry smell held up super well to the hot water, and it smelled So Good. Like, I’d wear that as a body spray.
Even too hot to drink, it was yummy: light, fruity, definitely strawberry ish. Worth burning my tongue to test.
I was at work, so not leaving it wasn’t really an option. I’m pleased to say it holds up very well to being left until it gets cold! It would probably make an excellent iced tea, to be honest. It didn’t get bitter at all, and I think most of the darkening was probably from the fruit. I was a little worried that the herbal or rosehips flavors would take over, but they really didn’t. This is a Very Balanced Tea, and it got stronger in the harmony it had already.
I’m sad I forgot to finish it or rebrew a new cup before I left!
Today’s tea is Ginger Peach! I never got this one for myself bc I used to work at a place that sold Republic of Tea ginger peach and I didn’t like it, so I assumed this would be the same. It’s not!
The first whiff coming out of the bag smells like otter pops–like, specifically an artificial fruitiness. After that it smells like ginger ale like most gingery teas do. And then it mellows into a nice vaguely fruity, vaguely gingery melange.
At the three-minutes-for-black tea mark it smells nice. Sort of peachy, sort of apricoty, not much ginger. And the taste is not too gingery either, but mild and fruity, and mostly like tea. Probably sugar would bring the peach out (but I have a cavity so not today).
It tastes mostly like tea, with that floral peachiness up front and the kinda-gingeriness in the back after you swallow. But you can sort of feel the ginger in your belly? This would probably be a good tea for after dinner, or if you’re feeling icky in your stomach, without it being as overwhelmingly gingery as teas meant for that sort of situation. It doesn’t taste medicinal at all.
Here’s what the bag for today looks like:
(idk why it uploaded all squashed)
Letting it sit makes the tea stronger. Like most black teas, it takes on sort of a bitter edge pretty quickly, but also the ginger gets stronger and that actually seems to balance the bitterness. When it’s real strong, I bet it could stand up to milk really well.
Overall, a pretty pleasant tea, considering I didn’t think I’d even like it at all!
Another Cup Of Tea 