Adagio Teas

Steeped 5 minutes with a timer. Tastes thin, with weird attempts at fruity flavors. Tasted 11.2018

Steeped 3 minutes with timer. Tastes bitter, weird. Not even in the fruit category. Tasted 11.2018.

Steeped 5 minutes with a timer. Tastes like floral berries. Smells nice, but tastes too perfume-y. Tasted 11.2018

Steeped 3 minutes with a timer. Smells like blueberry jam/jam canning. Tastes OK. Almost crosses over into a bitter taste. Steeps to a very dark color – like coffee. Tasted 11.2018

Tastes like thin raspberries. Steeped 10 minutes with timer (upper end of recommended steeping time). Smells lightly berry-ish. Steeps very very dark like red wine or grape juice. Good, but not as good or complex as Republic of Tea’s Brambleberry. Tried 11.2018

Tastes like the Jasmine tea at Chinese Restaurants. Pleasant and drinkable. Tried 11.2018.

Steeped for 10 minutes. Smells like the scratch & sniff ginger cookie from the Pat the Bunny children’s book. Reminiscent of childhood feelings and warmth. Tried 11.2018.

Smells like cinnamon and something else, almost like an old lady candle but it doesn’t cross the line into overpowering and gross. Tastes better than expected. More holiday spicey vs. candle. Tried 10.2018

Recommended steep time of 5-10 minutes. Drinkable but weird. Tastes and smells like the Mr. Sketch grape marker. Tasted 10.2018

Steeped 5 minutes (recommendation of 5-10 min). Smells great and peachy, but doesn’t taste good. Tastes sour/bitter/not good. Tried 10.2018

Steeping recommendation of 5-10 minutes. Steeped for 6-7 minutes. Almost a strawberry taste. Reminiscent of playdoh – not quite but something similar. Tried 11.2018.

The recommended steeping time was not available with this tea. Steeped the tea for 3 minutes. Tea smelled like old lady perfume and a strong candle. Tastes like nothing. So many competing flavors, but somehow none of them showed up. Tried 10.2018.

Steeped 1 pouch in 2 cups of hot water for 3 minutes, then poured over 2 cups of ice and cold water. Chilled in pitcher overnight. Smells like the blue raspberry gelatinous locker freshener from Bath & Body Works that I had in Middle school – very artificial berry smell. Tastes like the smell but very diluted. Tried 10.2018

Smells nice and chocolate-y. Tastes pleasant but very dilute and almost flavorless. There attempts at chocolate flavors, but it doesn’t quite get there. Steeped for the whole 5 minutes to try and enhance the flavor – no change noted. Drinkable, but tastes like drinking hot water. Tried 10.2018

Plain, attempts at a fruity taste. Smells soft, pleasant, but not much flavor. Steeped 3 min, then steeped longer to 5 min to try and enhance flavor – no change in flavors noted. Tried 10.2018

Has a barely citrus flavor. Tea steeped light pink, very thin color. Drinkable, but mostly tastes like warm orange-y water. Didn’t want to steep very long initially d/t other fruit teas becoming bitter – steeped 3 minutes.

Tried again and steeped tea 5 minutes. Tea smells like orange medicine. Taste is a stronger citrus flavor, good and drinkable. Tried 10.2018

Steeped 1 min with some dunking. Good flavor without bitterness. Could probably steep longer but was afraid of bitterness like with the blackberry tea. Tastes like warm raspberry water, pleasant. Tried 09.2018

Very bitter after 3 min (lower end of brew time). Tried again after steeping 1 min – still very bitter. High caffeine content. Online tips: better in blends vs. on its own. Tried 09.2018

Drinkable, but not necessarily enjoyable. Tastes like unsweetened berry water. Not sweet, but not bitter. Does not induce any puckering. Might be better with citrus, or a sweetener? Would require a LOT of sweetener. Soaked 2 sachets in a pitcher for 12 hours. Tried 09.2018

Doesn’t contain any tea leaves. Has a strong, solid peach smell, and doesn’t lose the peach smell as it cools. It’s like drinking flavored water but not in a diluted/gross way. Tastes great hot. Would be great mixed with other teas. Steeping less than 5 minutes = too weak. Tried 09.2018

Welp, apparently I misplaced this tea and just found it. It wasn’t even opened. So I figured I’d brew a cup. For starters, I wanted to say that in my past experiences, vanilla rooibos needs to be brewed for 3 minutes not 5 unless you want to drink vanilla body spray (or something that tastes like I imagine it would). So 3 minute brew. Tasted without sweetener, and it was lacking. I could definitely taste the vanilla, but it tasted more like vanilla extract (super bitter) than actual sweet vanilla. So one splenda later and it’s pretty good. It has a strong vanilla bean flavor to it. Actually, it tastes a bit like this of I would say aged vanilla. Like the stuff they put in really good cream soda. Some Malt flavor as well. Yep, I would say that this fixed this way kinda tastes like the tea equivalent of craft brew cream soda. Yummy and bold, rich and flavorful. Its a pity you have to add sweetener to it to truly bring out the richness of the vanilla but some things can’t be helped.

Just a real quick update. I am trying this one again, but lengthened the steep time to the full 10 minutes it recommends on the package. (The package says 7-10 minutes.) Great improvement. I’m getting a ton more of that yummy spice flavor. It isn’t bitter at all which is always a concern when oversteeping. Then again I did put two splendas in it like last time (along with almond milk) so as to be consistant. Bottom line is steeped for 10 minutes this is a much better tea than at 8 minutes.

So, time for an old favorite that I simply haven’t reviewed yet. I am a big fan of Masala Chais in general, so I was excited to see how Adagios held up. First off, I steeped this for eight minutes. Then I added Almond Milk and Sweetener. I tried just adding almond milk but it tasted bland. So after two spendas I sipped again. It’s… fine. It’s not nearly as spicy as some of the instant chais I have had and that is sad. It is however very complex flavored. I taste cinnamon, I taste ginger, I taste cloves, I taste nutmeg (I think), it is definitely spicy. However, the spice isn’t as strong as I would like. I like a good strong spicy chai. Maybe if I steeped more leaf for longer it would make a stronger cuppa. As it stands with 1.5 teaspoons for 12 oz it just isn’t strong enough for my liking. It’s tasty, but not the best. I can see why some people might like it though so I won’t recommend/not recommend. All in all, it’s ok, but not the best. Will try again fiddling with prep later.