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This is a nice soothing blend and perfect for night time or when I need a calm moment. I love chamomile blends and this is another one that I would be happy to reorder. The taste is very soothing and peppermint is the first thing I taste, followed closely by the chamomile. I actually like that it is the peppermint that hits me first, that is a change over most night time blends where I get hit with the chamomile first and everythign else is in the background.

This also resteeps very well. I left my resteep sitting on the counter for the next day and it tasted just as good as the first steep.

It really amazes me how much my opinion of this tea has changed and I have to question Adagio’s quality control a little. I was in the mood for something blueberry today so I dug through my pile of samples because I had just seen an unopened package of the white blueberry in there while I was organizing the other day. It had completely slipped my mind that I had already rated this a little over two weeks ago and already had an open package. The taste between my two packages of tea were so different it’s hard to believe that it is the same tea. What really bugs me is that both packages of this tea were purchased within two weeks of each other, I double checked.

I was really disappointed this time around because there was absolutely no blueberry taste to it at all, just a hint of sweetness, and the smell wasn’t nearly as strong in the package. I had to figure out where I had put the other one so I could compare. If the packages hadn’t been labeled I would have thought these were two totally different teas. Adding sugar helped bring out the blueberry flavor that was lacking, but I really hate sweetening my tea.

This wasn’t undrinkable by any means, but I didn’t find it nearly as good this time so I’m going to lower my rating from an 81 to a 69.

This is another very mild white blend from Adagio. I’m not really impressed with the peach flavoring they’ve used, but it certainly isn’t the worst I’ve come across. This tea is naturally very sweet and while hot the peach flavor is pretty strong. As it cools it mellows out a bit and the peach isn’t as overwhelming. It’s still pretty artificial tasting, but not overwhelmingly so.

I did resteep this, I started out at 4 minutes for the initial steep and 5 minutes for the resteep. It managed to give me a pretty solid flavor the second time around, but it had noticibly less peach.

I’m on the fence about chocolate teas, so what do I go and do last week? I ordered some chocolate tea samples… it seemed like a good idea at the time. Personally, I blame my sweet tooth.

I won’t lie, I am an absolute chocolate snob. I have no problem paying $5+ for a quality chocolate bar and savoring it slowly over the week. I didn’t dislike this as much as most of the chocolate teas that I’ve had, but I found the chocolate creme a little offputting, I’m not sure why they included it. I did like that they didn’t add sprinkles to it and choose to use mini chocolate chips, I’ve never understood sprinkles in tea.

I tried this hot and didn’t bother with a resteep. I don’t see the point in resteeping chocolate teas since the chocolate chips all melt into the first cup and leave the second bland.

I didn’t dislike this as much as I thought I would, but that isn’t really saying much. This is a really delicate blend and not at all what I was expecting. The only thing I taste is a rather sweet taste from the coconut flavoring. I’m not getting the rose petals or pineapple at all and as it cools I’m getting less and less of the coconut. On one hand I’m happy to see a tropical blend without the hibiscus, I just wish I liked it more, it really let me down by not having more of a fruit flavor present.

Yet again my Georgia Tea Company order has not let me down. This is a great example of how to properly include hibiscus in a blend. It remains in the background adding just a hint of tartness and doesn’t completely take over, letting the raspberry and mint shine. This is a little tart, a little fruity, and a little minty and really has a great balance to it. I didn’t sweeten it, but I could see this working well sweetened and iced. This really is a great summer time drink.

Added bonus: My toddler loved it, he snatched my 16oz travel mug off of the table while I wasn’t looking and finished it in seconds.

Hmmm… I’m not really sure what to say about this one. I don’t really care for the smell and in trying to pinpoint why I took another look at the ingredients. I need to pay closer attention to what I order because this has sage in it and I absolutely hate sage in anything other than the stuffing/dressing that goes with my Thanksgiving turkey. I’m pretty sure when I ordered it I saw that it had rose petals and that’s what snared me. I’m such a sucker for rose anything.

I didn’t dislike this as much as I thought that I would and that surprised me since it also contains lemon and I could really do without lemon in my tea. This has a nice balance to it and you can really taste the sage, rosemary, and lemon. What I’m not really tasting, at least while it is hot, is the rose. This really isn’t a bad blend, but it certainly isn’t to my tastes.