Shanti Tea

Wonderful black tea – medium strength – with what ‘hit me’ as berry notes on the nose!

The taste of this is AWESOME! I really like it! It’s juicy but also a tad bakey. It has incredible natural fruity notes without have any actual fruit in it! Amazing!

I think I am going to have a 2nd cup!

Dry smells like cocoa powder, sure!
once mixed – it smells like hot chocolate and croissant-like bready or caky or something.
It looks like coffee with cream in it.

The taste is pretty darned tasty! It’s creamy and fairly cocoa-E and almost coffee bean like. The aftertaste is when the ‘matcha taste’ comes in to play.

This is very different yet good! Nice one!

YES!
This is glorious!

Juicy Pom! Sweet and refreshing!
There isn’t a grassy or leafy-green taste but wonderful fruity notes!

This flavored match is RIGHT UP THERE!

Oh! I LOVE the Juicy-Goodness! Heaven!

The powder is more light brown/gray than greenish as shown in the picture. It looks and smells like cinnamon powder you would cook or bake with.

Once mixed with water it’s a deep olive green type color.

It tastes like green tea (matcha) and cinnamon…so it’s pretty true to the description.

It’s accurate and tasty if you are into cinnamon…again, it’s more of a cinnamon powder type taste than a cinnamon candy type taste.

LiberTEAs…I’m sending the rest to you! Be careful, tho, it’s messy! LOL

backlogging see other notes ;)

Hefty!!!!! Backlogging…
see previous reviews :)

A little bit goes a long way for a smooth cuppa but this can have heft to it…see my other notes :) This is darn tasty today…

Another Bold Brew from Shanti! NICE! Dry…this had a burly black tea aroma to it with an underlying hint of sweet. Once infused this was VERY DARK in color and pretty strong in black tea flavor/taste. There is a HARDCORE Black Tea Taste paired with something that wants to be chewy but doesn’t quite get to that point. The taste starts off with a smidge of bitterness – but in a good way – and trails off into a more even taste as the sip progresses. The aftertaste is much more smooth than I anticipated based on the beginning of the sip. I really like it tho! A great morning tea! Nice-Bold-Black Tea!

BOLD!
Perhaps that’s why it didn’t last long in my stash! Perfect for helping you wake up and get-going!

SIPDOWN!

back logging 3 cups from earlier this morning :)

The SororiTEA Sisters will be featuring a full length review on this one at 6pm EST this evening! In the meantime…

This is really bold and a nice solid black. The color is of deep burgundy and the aroma makes you crave multiple cups!

This tea, for me, has all these hints of flavor and sweetness… but they’re only hints. I wish it had more flavor and more of the elements only hinted at.

I’m feeling very homesick today. It’s my niece’s 4th birthday, and it’s the first time I haven’t been with her to celebrate. I said Happy Birthday over the phone, and she asked me why I didn’t come to her house. I said I’m far, far away. So she said to drive fast. I told her I don’t have a car. So she said maybe her daddy (my brother) could drive really fast and pick me up and drive really fast to get home! She’s so adorable and smart, and it’s killing me that I’m not there right now.

So I thought I’d make a nice iced lemon tea to pick me up. I loved this hot, so I thought it’s about time I tried it cold. Great! Not great enough to lift me from my self-pity, but it’s quenching my thirst. It’s not like the lemonade taste I had while hot. It’s more of a grassy, green tea taste with lemon tones. I’ll probably really enjoy it tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Bella Boo! Tita misses you terribly.

Mmmm…lemonade. Was in the mood for something citrusy tonight so I went for this. It smells so wonderful as you pour it into your mug. Warm and lemony…very soothing.

With a dash of honey, it tastes like hot lemonade (go figure!). I love how this tea mellows out the tangy bite you can get with some lemon infusions. With most of my teas, I take my time to sip and savour. I love this one so much that I’m already on my 3rd mug!! This tea is definitely going on my reorder list.

Trying a cup of Jasmine green tulsi while goofing off on this holiday weekend. I love jasmine tea, and I was intrigued by the tulsi or holy basil.

The scent of the steeped tea is nice and relaxing; it isn’t flowery like jasmine, more earthy which I’m guessing is the tulsi. The taste is earthy too; I’d say it’s like green tea with almost a slight minty aftertaste. I think I may have steeped it too long – a mistake I make quite often with my green teas. I will definitely try it again at half the steep time to see if the jasmine comes out more when it isn’t overpowered by the tulsi.

I agree with the previous review that this is a really mellow chai. So mellow in fact that I can’t taste anything other than black tea! Not that that’s a bad thing, but I was really expecting the spiciness of a chai. That’s the only reason I’m giving it a low rating. (As a black tea, it’s decent.)

Now the company, Shanti Tea, I’m very happy with. I took advantage of a SwarmJam deal to buy as many sample tins as I could. The sample tins are very generous, and at $3.45 each they make it very affordable to try out their variety of teas. The shipping was super quick. Depending on what I think of the other teas, I’ll be shopping there again in the future.

From my It’s All About the Leaf review, available at: http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/1761/tea-review-shanti-tea-spiderweb-oolong/

Spider webs conjure up ethereal visions of delicate pale films of almost nothing. Wisps of white that disappear in the sunlight. Shanti’s Spiderweb oolong initially seems strangely misnamed. The leaves are short, black and twisted, but very tangible and more like spiders than their webs. My sample didn’t have much aroma dry, but once steeped, it almost smelled more like grapes than oolong. Or ice wine. Very sweet. Again, not a quality widely associated with spider webs.

Once brewed up, the liquor is a light tan. The tea doesn’t have much of the typical oolong flavor of other teas, but it’s got a pleasant lightly tannic flavor, and a lovely sweetness on the finish that reminds me again of grapes, or on subsequent steeps of sweet lemons. There’s also a malty overtone to the brew. It’s got a thin, tannic mouth-feel, and here’s where the spider web name is applicable. The tea’s flavor dissipates quickly, leaving just the hint of sweetness, and the knowledge that you’ve just had some nice tea.

Drinking a big glass this morning iced. It’s so nice and refreshing; perfect summer tea. There is a slightly herb-y aftertaste that I’m getting more from it cold than I got warm, but it’s lovely.

From my It’s All About the Leaf Review, found at http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/2092/tea-review-shanti-tea-lemonade/

There’s a smell that you get from cold lemonade on a hot day. It’s the smell of sweet refreshement, a tang of sour and a scoop of sweet. It’s a smell of people outside at a country fair, sweating in unison, but happy to be there because of the gorgeous day, the riot of color and activity around them and the ice cold glass in their hand.

This tea – has that smell. The leaf for this herbal tea smells more lemony than lemons – it smells like the distilled essence of lemonade. And not just lemonade – but outdoor, perfect refreshement on a special occasion lemonade.

The flavor isn’t the same, it’s not lemonade, but it’s really good in its own right. It’s more lemon grass than lemonade, and has a warmer, mellower taste that the crisp, lemonade tang. It’s lemony, smooth and naturally sweet.

Hot, this tea is soothing and relaxing. Iced, this would be a summertime refresher. This is an amazing tea. Lemon-lovers, TRY THIS TEA.

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me this one!

This is pretty good. The orange flavors are strong but the black tea is the dominate flavor. Sweet, flavorful, and enjoyable. The orange especially comes through in the aftertaste, it’s like a drop of freshly squeezed orange juice on my tongue. Nice!

I liked it. It is pleasant and flavourful.

This has an unusual taste for a green tea, at least the ones that I am familiar with. I really like the way it smells. It doesn’t quite taste the way it smells, though there are notes that are reminiscent of it. My friend says the smell reminds him of Irish Breakfast tea, which makes sense because it is a Darjeeling style tea, (Darjeeling tea is usually one of the components of Irish Breakfast tea.) I liked the second infusion better than the first infusion. For some reason I liked the blend of flavours better.