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I was surprised at how romantic this blend was – it doesn’t sound it from the description. Ceylon green tea + amaranth + coconut + pineapple + rum. But it has a very heady, floral aroma that fogs up your brain, which to me is a romantic feeling. True love making you do silly things, not think clearly, and all that Disney stuff. Hopefully you know what I mean.

Lovely aroma and flavour. Tropical fruity punch notes of pineapple and mango with an alcoholic and floral air to it. It’s light and sweet and fruity. The liquor is slightly thick – juicy and syrupy at first but then drying in the sweet aftertaste. It has you reaching for another cup.

My only real issue is that the green tea flavour is undetectable, drowned under an ocean of pretty pink petals and lush fruits.

Still, I highly recommend it. The mini tea book case it came in is beautiful too. https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/basilur-love-story-volume-iii-tea-review/

I thought this one from PMD was far better than their Earl Grey. Opening the packet the peppermint aroma just slaps you straight in the face. In a good way!

I brewed it until it was a deep brown/green colour and was very aromatic. The flavour is warmer and sweeter than expected, with hints of spearmint as well as peppermint. There’s also something slightly medicinal in the aftertaste.

Peppermint is one of the few teas I can stomach drinking hot when the weather is sweltering. This is a good one.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/pmd-peppermint-tea-review/

This one was nice too, but I’m not so mad about strawberries. The creamy flavour is more of an aroma and an aftertaste, but it’s still there. It doesn’t taste fake.

The strawberries are good, they taste natural and there’s the right balance between tart and sweet. The other ingredients aren’t strong enough to be individually detectable, but you can tell they’re adding something to the cup because overall it has a rounded and more complex flavour than simply strawberries and cream.

Comparing it to the Raspberry Breeze blend (which only has raspberries + 2 ingredients) it has far more depth.

High rating because it was good by tisane standards… just not my favourite, personally.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/teapro-subscription-box-review-fruit-tisane/

Raspberry Breeze is yum. I love that it’s so real. You open the bag and you’re pulling out whole freeze-dried raspberries, whole linden flower petals and whole hibiscus flower petals. There’s something about seeing the ingredients whole that makes the resulting tea more wondrous. Maybe that’s just me.

The raspberries are super tart and just the right amount of sweet. Exactly like eating real raspberries, this tea is so fresh and juicy.

I’m not sure the linden flower brings anything to the blend, however. You could argue that this is a really simple tea. But I think that’s the charm of it.

Also, getting 1 teaspoon of this tea in your mug is a bit of a challenge considering one teaspoon can just be a single raspberry, so you have to really dig through the bag to cherry pick one piece of each ingredient. In about a week’s time I’m just going to be left with a bag full of hibiscus and linden flower when all the raspberries are gone.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/teapro-subscription-box-review-fruit-tisane/

A good berry tea from the subscription box. I liked this one a lot, I just need to remember to brew it lightly or the coconut quickly becomes too cloying. It was the most complex from the box.

It has a really nice berry flavour that’s predominantly blackberry but also a bit of raspberry too. I’m not sure what chokeberry tastes like, but that’s in there as well.

Tastes best cold. Doesn’t need any additional sweetener.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/teapro-subscription-box-review-fruit-tisane/

So, I finally got round to reviewing this one properly. I had it 3 ways:

Hot – lovely orange zest aroma. Hibiscus dominated flavour but you could definitely taste the orange-ness in it. Not too sweet. It went well with the ginger acacia honey that came with the tea.
Cold – orange aroma again, but 99% hibiscus in flavour. Wasn’t too tart. I quite enjoyed it.
Frozen – 100% hibiscus, I liked it but it’s just not as described.

Also take a look at the pictures in my review. This tea is bright pink – the pics on the teapro website are of a completely clear liquid. It doesn’t directly say that this tea is clear, but it’s certainly implied. This just added to my expectations that this would be orange flavoured and not hibiscus dominated.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/teapro-subscription-box-review-fruit-tisane/

2018 June harvest. Over a year old and it’s still tasting pretty good to me. I really enjoyed this one. It’s described as an atypical Assam. Western style, 3 steeps:

Steep 1, 3 minutes 30 seconds, slightly bitter, malty, smooth, pear, honey, honeysuckle, drying mouth feel.
Steep 2, 7 minutes, sweet sweet sweet honey and pear. Bitterness and malt have vanished.
Steep 3, 20 minutes, super sweet and rich, floral aroma, bready, sticky apricots, sultanas.

That third steep had me imagining sticky Easter fruitcake loaves with honey drizzle.

All 3 steeps came out this delicious golden syrup colour that was very inviting.

The only things I didn’t like was the bitterness in the first steep and that it only lasted 3 steeps. I wanted more from it. That 20 minute steep was a real surprise – I was expecting it to grow weaker rather than develop that fruity/bready flavour. I wish I had left the 2nd steep for longer. 4th steep wasn’t worth reviewing.

No fancy staged pictures this time, I was far too busy drinking it https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/what-cha-india-assam-kanoka-tea-review/

I wasn’t a huge fan of this. Maybe my EG expectations are just too high.

The dry tea bag had no aroma at all, even though it was sealed up in a wrapper, sealed up inside a box, sealed up inside my tea drawer. The chances of it going stale from time (still a year before expiry) or air exposure are virtually non-existent… so why was it so un-aromatic and watery?

The bergamot is simply listed as “natural flavouring” which I thought was odd too. Why not “natural bergamot flavouring”? The flavour was lemon zesty when I took a sip so maybe that’s why. Maybe it’s not entirely bergamot.

The flavour was bitter, lemony and had a weak black tea base. No body or warmth. The lemon wasn’t as bad as some toilet cleaner teas, but it didn’t taste natural either. I only brewed for 2 minutes but it went very dark, very quickly. If I have it with milk, I go for nearer the 3 minute mark.

Don’t get me wrong, the tea wasn’t bad. I wasn’t grimacing with every sip. It just wasn’t good either. Not sure what to do with the rest of the box.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/the-london-tea-company-earl-grey-review/

Teapro subscription arrived this morning and I couldn’t resist trying one straight away. I picked the Orange Sunshine blend and actually froze it in the lolly mold that was in the box.

First, the smell is very citrusy and reminds me of candied orange (it’s on the ingredients list but there’s no Steepster ingredient for it, or the orange blossom or the rose peel).

The colour, however, is red. Like deep raspberry red. And the flavour is mostly hibiscus and berry-like. I can’t taste any orange at all.

I’ll leave scoring it for another day – maybe I just got too much hibiscus in the 2 teaspoons I used… or maybe it’s more orangey when brewed hot or cold rather than frozen. I will shake up the bag for next time and find out.

I keep thinking to myself “wow, should it be this hot already?” and then I remember we’re in July. This year has just flown by so quickly.

Another camomile tea in my collection. I prefer the spelling chamomile so writing my entire review using camomile caused some eye twitching. But it’s the actual spelling Twinings use.

It was far better than anticipated. Most camomiles I’ve tried have been light with honey sweetness. But this was thick, syrupy and way more sweet than usual. It’s golden syrup with hay.

Reading the existing tasting notes for this, I think the key is to pick the individually foil-wrapped tea bags, rather than the whole box. It keeps the tea fresher and stronger. I’d definitely drink this tea again.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/twinings-pure-camomile-tea-review/