Teavana

Man, I always manage to oversteep this, so it always has this bitter aftertaste. Otherwise, the flavor is very mild, sort of a light neutral fruity flavor.
It’s a good blending tea, I think, if you want to try to punch up another drink with some antioxidant goodness, but it’s too fussy and easy to screw up when brewing, and even if you manage preparation times properly you end up with a rather weak tea.

my first teavana tea… i fell in love with tea with rooibos sweet amore. how fitting.

A very nice robust mate blend. Delicious as a hot tea. Has chocolatey and nutty notes. Sad to see it discontinued :( But happy that I got a little bit before it was all gone :D

I love drinking this as an iced tea and mixing it with Raspberry Riot Lemon Mate (Teavana). It has a berry sweetness with a minty flavor as well. It’s super yummy!

A great diet tea! Good iced and hot. I prefer blending it iced with Six Summits Oolong (Teavana). Smells and tastes like Poprocks :)

Great tea iced or hot. Veeerrrry lemony :) Mixes well with Raspberry Riot Lemon Mate (Teavana). I drank mixed with silver needle and a lot of honey when I had a soar throat and it was very nice

Love this tea! Very nice ginger-spicy tea without being to spicy. Great iced or hot. Blends very well with Bankok Lemongrass (Teavana).

Great green tea! Lovely floral taste! Very relaxing in the evening. Wonderful iced or hot. Mixes well with Rooibos Tropica (Teavana) and Rooibos Peach Bloom (Teavana). Mix with Silver needle and Monkey Picked oolog for “Liquid Gold”.

A very good mate :) Nice chocolate taste! Very good iced or hot. Blend well with Rooibos Chai (Teavana) and Peppermint tea. A great coffee replacement because it has the same caffeine content.

Light and pleasant Chinese green tea with very subtle fruit aroma because it is shade grown next to peach trees. It is good iced and hot. Makes a nice iced tea when blended with Precious White Peach (Teavana).

Not what I was expecting. You can smell the peach blossom in the aroma, a little, but there’s something odd and unexpected happening with the flavour. This does not taste like a white tea. I’ve been sitting here, trying to work out how to describe it, and the best that I can come up with is that this tastes like a very mild, lightly steeped black tea.

I’ve just added a little milk to the last of it, even though that’s something that I’d never normally consider with a white tea and… it sort of works. It isn’t totally awful, anyway, and it does give a bit more balance to it. I’m thinking that maybe a touch of sugar might be worth trying, too. Weird, weird, weird.

This is a very nice rooibos tea both iced and hot. Mixes well with Zingiber Ginger Coconut Rooibos (Teavana). During the winter I mix it with Apple Lemon Pomegranate (Teavana) and brew it iced. Then I add some Silk Soy Eggnog :D It sound totally weird, but it is delicious!

A very nice Japanese green tea with a lightly sweet and vegetal taste. Works well iced and hot. Especially good when you make an Ice Steeped Gyokuro! add 2 and a half teaspoons of the tea to a 16 oz. tea-maker and fill up the rest of the tea-maker with ice. Pour water (175 degrees F.) over the ice so that some of it melts and there is a little room left in the tea-maker. Add as much more ice to the tea-maker as you can. Let it steep for 15 minutes. You can leave it in the fridge while it’s steeping :D All the ice keeps the tea from burning or going bitter

another nice lite oolong tea. Delicious iced or hot. Has a sligth berry aroma/flavor to it. Blends well with Sweet Fruit Garden (Teavana) and Rooibos Peach Bloom (Teavana).

One of my favorite flavored green teas from Teavana. Works well as an iced or hot tea. Blends well with Raspberry Riot Lemon Mate (Teavana) and Six Summit Oolong (Teavana).

A nice fruity Mate! Best as an iced tea, blends well with Lemon Youko (Teavana) and Superfruit Unity (Teavana)

Had some Snow Geisha today! Yum! Still one of my favorite teas :D

This is my favorite tea ever!!! It is good iced and hot. When I brew it just right it tastes like white gummi bears :D A very nice light fruity white tea

Very nice oolong, on the lighter side. Subtle floral flavor. Very smooth

It’s been a couple of years since Teavana discontinued Rose Marzipan Delight, and alas, the tea leaves are fading. It still tastes good, but it’s not nearly as glorious as it was a few years ago. The sweetness is slowly fading away, and there’s nothing I can do to arrest it.

I’m so bummed that Rose Marzipan Delight has officially been discontinued and my local Teavana is completely sold out. It is such a beautiful tea. It is sweet enough that extra sugar or honey isn’t needed, and the flavor complex and balanced between nutty and floral.
It’s also one of those rare black teas that doesn’t get overwhelmed by bitterness if you aren’t paying attention and forget to take the steeping leaves out after a few minutes.

Love, love, love this tea- one of my indulgences. A rose flavored tea with a bit of sweetness from the marzipan.

Interesting balance between the lavender and the white tea. The loose leaves have a strong lavender scent, but this is almost totally missing from the brewed tea. However, you do get a definite taste of lavender from the brewed tea, which stays with you in the aftertaste.

I can’t really get away from calling this tea floral because, well, it is. The floral taste doesn’t overpower the tea while it’s hot or warm, and I really enjoyed it prepared like this. However, the lavender does start to become too much as the tea gets colder, so I suspect this one wouldn’t work nearly as well iced as it does hot.

I was trying to find a really good Formosa Oolong for my friend to try. Alas, Teavana didn’t have anything like what I was looking for. It did have this one, which I’ve belatedly realised – thanks to the description in their printed catalogue not mentioning this – is a Ti Kuan Yin.

Vegetal is the first description that comes to mind. It’s very green, in the plant sense rather than the green tea sense. I don’t remember other Ti Kuan Yins I’ve tried having this quality, at least not to anything like this extent, though it’s been a few months since I’ve had one.

The tea is also a little floral, but nothing like as floral as, say, an Alishan oolong. Overall, it ends up less sweet than I was expecting, and also with none of that silky, buttery sort of texture that I’ve come to expect from the top drawer Formosa Oolongs.

This is not to say that I didn’t like this tea: I did. It is smooth, it is floral, and it is… green. < / star trek reference > It’s a good oolong if you’re in the mood for a Chinese oolong at the greener end of the scale – but I’ll be ordering a good Formosa Oolong from somewhere else for my friend before I go home. ;-)