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I picked this one up as Teavana are phasing it out and it’s 30% off, and I was also trying to get up to 500g to get the additional 10% off. Holy shit! They got me good! I’ve never bought that much tea in once place, and considering I was kind of weary of Teavana due to less than glowing reviews and the fact that all of their tea has way to much fruit and junk in it for me. I was actually shocked to see exactly how much non-tea ingredients they put in their teas, I wanted to try the spice of life oolong but I could barely see any oolong in it, you’d be lucky to get 2 leaves in a teaspoon.
They still somehow managed to con me into buying 500g, which doesn’t get you a lot there because of how weighed down their teas are. 150g of that was for a friend and she got the slender strawberry pu’erh which smelled amazing and I can’t wait to try.
I bought 7 different teas for myself and this was the 4th I’ve tried. I’ve only been impressed with one of them, the raspberry riot lemon mate, which was still only ‘good’, not amazing.
This tea has a good flavour. This is the first grape based tea I’ve had and I quite like it. The flavour is quite robust and covers up the rooibos so it tastes more like a herbal. There is one thing I can’t quite get past though. I know I over steeped this but I don’t think that contributed to it, maybe I just got a bad batch, but there is an overwhelming smell of sweaty gym socks! You can’t smell it in the dry leaf, only once it’s brewed, and you can smell it every time you take a sip. It doesn’t taste like gym socks at all, but it might as well. I am going to try this again at a lower brewing temp and less time and see if that gets rid of it.
I wonder if anyone else has found this….