This is the feed of all reviews of teas from Mighty Leaf Tea on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/brand/mighty-leaf/8/http://ratetea.com/review/7092/http://ratetea.com/review/7092/Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:42:07 ESTNOTE: This tea has changed ingredients (and not for the better) since last update on RateTea in 2017. It used to be, "China Gunpowder green tea blended with refreshing Moroccan peppermint," per website of that era. Now it is, "Chinese green tea blended with sweet, bright spearmint," based on the labeling of packaging for the individual sachets. Realizing that balancing a flavoring like mint with green tea is likely a delicately performed blending art, I still had some trouble getting into this blend...http://ratetea.com/review/7086/http://ratetea.com/review/7086/Mon, 12 May 2025 02:35:38 ESTHere's another Mighty Leaf blend I got included in a hotel stay, but I'm basing the (way overpriced) value rating on the online cost, over 50¢/bag in 100-ct bulk box! Even for a really good decaf tea, that's probably too steep to steep for most folks, unless one is so desperate for a very good decaf EG that such a large payout is worth the trouble. For a decaf black tea, this Ceylon tea (per their website) is remarkably good, via both smell and taste. It doesn't have the tinny or metallic tone I get...http://ratetea.com/review/7082/http://ratetea.com/review/7082/Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:38:17 ESTFinally, after trying several Darjeeling teas, I think I've finally found one that expresses how they're supposed to taste. Most of them, in my relatively limited experience so far, have been "off" in some way: flat, or metallic, or weak, or muddy, or "old" tasting, or just ordinary and nothing special (like a lot of motel food-service teas). Given their high repute, I was starting to wonder if Darjeeling-appreciation buds are simply missing from my tongue and this tea type won't work for me, or if I've...http://ratetea.com/review/7077/http://ratetea.com/review/7077/Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:04:46 ESTHere's another Mighty Leaf offering obtained from a stay at College of DuPage's little on-campus hotel. I must say, few hotels (even including the likes of Hilton or Hyatt), or Air-BnB type places I've ever seen, provide such an expensive tea brand, and they had multitudes of several flavors. That was a nice touch! However, the per-bag online prices make me cringe (the lowest I found being $8.16 for 15-ct box at Office Supply, of all places). I'm guessing the hotel got it wholesale for a good bit less....http://ratetea.com/review/7074/http://ratetea.com/review/7074/Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:48:20 ESTThis is a mutt as tea blends go, with white and green tea, "natural flavors" and white cornflower, but it works out well. A recent stay at College of DuPage's nice little student-run hotel featured a selection of Mighty Leaf teas to chug, including a few I hadn't tried nor reviewed yet. This is the first of those. Since Mighty Leaf teas usually are good quality, and came at no extra charge during the stay, I drank a lot of tea while there. Must stay hydrated! White Orchard surprised me in a positive...http://ratetea.com/review/6841/http://ratetea.com/review/6841/Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:27:27 ESTAs customary for Mighty Leaf packaging, this blend comes in a sachet sewn on three sides with cotton threads, which then extend out to the string and the paper tag. Within the sachet, one easily can see the chopped green tea—mostly leaf pieces, but a few stems—and several assorted dried flower pieces that presumably combine to round off the "tropical" fruit flavor. Does it succeed? More so in aroma than taste, but mostly, yes. Several dry bags of this would make a great, airy, appropriately scent...http://ratetea.com/review/6266/http://ratetea.com/review/6266/Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:58:08 ESTI love chai overall, so they tend to skew high in my ratings unless they either simply suck, or as in this case, are "just" decent while being overpriced. [Though I was served a couple bags of this tea at a Corner Bakery outlet, I based "value" on the online pricing.] My version came in a rectangular sachet sewn on three sides with cotton thread (fancy pants!), with a sewn cotton string leading to a purple paper tag. The tea itself is something of a paper tiger. If this was the first chai I ever trie...http://ratetea.com/review/5288/http://ratetea.com/review/5288/Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:51:08 ESTI've recently started looking for Fair Trade Certified teas, so I decided to try a box of Mighty Leaf tea. My first impression is that the tea is lower quality than the packaging and price would indicate. The box says that the sachets contain "whole leaf tea," but the tea in the sachets is in quite small pieces, not much larger than fannings. The sachets each contain almost three grams of tea, though, which is quite generous for teabags in the US. The dry tea smells quite strongly with spicy and woody n...http://ratetea.com/review/5117/http://ratetea.com/review/5117/Mon, 22 May 2017 14:24:08 ESTI thought this was an excellent second flush Darjeeling, with a fresher and cooler aroma than average, and surprising strength that allowed the leaf to stretch very far. A tea that I like to savor very slowly, not something for if you're in a hurry. Thank you to Mighty Leaf for this generous sample! I love the smell of the loose-leaf, it smells refreshing and very much makes me want to brew up and drink this tea. It's slightly fruity and malty, with a skunky note. The brewed cup is rich and smoo...http://ratetea.com/review/5110/http://ratetea.com/review/5110/Sat, 13 May 2017 21:06:37 ESTThank you to Mighty Leaf for this sample! Overall I haven't been as impressed with the green teas from Mighty Leaf as the black ones, but I like this one a bit more. This was a very atypical example of a kukicha / twig tea, much more full-flavored than I expected. I was intrigued by how the leaf smells...it smells potent and variable, unique among kukicha (Japanese twig teas): fruity, with some pungent, slightly skunky notes, a hint of straw, and some bready notes too. I don't really know what to exp...http://ratetea.com/review/5109/http://ratetea.com/review/5109/Thu, 11 May 2017 17:27:54 ESTThank you mighty leaf for this sample! This tea had a very pleasant flavor but was nearly aromaless, although what aroma it did have was nice. Dry leaf initially doesn't smell great, but when I breathe in more deeply, there's a very pleasant smell that suggests sweetness. The leaf looks fairly large and also rather broken, it looks a little more like bancha or lower grades of sencha than higher-end stuff. The cup is surprisingly weak and aromaless. I normally steep sencha only 1 minute for the fir...http://ratetea.com/review/5107/http://ratetea.com/review/5107/Tue, 09 May 2017 13:45:05 ESTThanks again to Mighty Leaf for this sample! Like the other Assam from mighty leaf, I liked this tea from the first sip, but it also grew on me substantially. Another classic Assam, this one of higher grade. It was good the first few times I brewed it, but I found it really shined when I gave it a long steep. This tea has big, intact pieces of whole leaf, with ample orange tips and a beautiful dusty appearance. The leaf smells subtle, not as in-your-face as the broken leaf variant, and is much more ...http://ratetea.com/review/5098/http://ratetea.com/review/5098/Mon, 01 May 2017 20:01:33 ESTThank you to mighty leaf for the sample! This tea is dark, strong, smoky, and complex. It's like one of those software packages that is really intimidating and hard to learn, but powerful once you get comfortable with it. I found it grew on me and I liked it more each time I drank it. Wiry leaf smells punch-you-in-the-face strong, fruity and toasty, smells almost like 100% cranberry juice. Upon brewing, smoky notes come out. The aroma has great complexity, vegetal, smoky and toasty, and spicy. Th...http://ratetea.com/review/5096/http://ratetea.com/review/5096/Sun, 30 Apr 2017 20:21:35 ESTI drink a fair amount of this, it's probably the Mighty Leaf tea that I drink most often because I tend to visit a cafe that serves their teas in the evening, and it's by far my favorite of their caffeine-free herbal teas. I sometimes compare it to the African Sunset which is sold by Two Leaves Tea, similarly a flavored rooibos or rooibos blend where the rooibos is dominant, but there are other flavorings. These teas are also both in a similar price range. However, besides that they're pretty differen...http://ratetea.com/review/5085/http://ratetea.com/review/5085/Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:05:37 ESTI loved this one. My favorite mighty leaf tea yet, and an excellent example of a classic Assam. Thank you Mighty Leaf for this generous sample! I thought this was a pleasantly strong Assam, exactly what I expect from this style and a good example of such. There is something intangible about this tea that makes it incredibly pleasant to drink. It also grew on me a lot, although I enjoyed it from the start, it seemed a bit run-of-the-mill, but I found myself enjoying it more and more as I drank the cu...http://ratetea.com/review/5079/http://ratetea.com/review/5079/Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:30:27 ESTThis was a free sample from Mighty Leaf; thanks very much! So far this is the most disappointing tea I've tried from the batch so I wanted to get my review out of the way and move on to the others. I thought this was too thin for an Irish Breakfast, oddly muted; it tasted like something was missing, both in terms of flavor and mouthfeel. Dry leaf is fairly finely broken, smell is soft, mostly fruity. I'm surprised by the nearly complete lack of malt in the aroma, as usually Irish breakfasts are rich...http://ratetea.com/review/4962/http://ratetea.com/review/4962/Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:24:01 ESTServed at De La Coeur Cafe in Wilmington, DE (I love that place by the way, please do check it out if you're ever there). I normally don't like hibiscus blends (think Celestial Seasonings' Red Zinger) because they are too sour for me, but I enjoyed this one. I brewed it in a big fat mug and only steeped it around 3 minutes, so that may have diluted the sourness a bit. Even the tea bag was explosively fragrant, surprisingly floral. Hibiscus is an interesting flower; it never really smells floral to ...http://ratetea.com/review/4902/http://ratetea.com/review/4902/Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:07:15 ESTI was eager to try this because it was the only pure green tea in tea bags sold by Mighty Leaf, other than their hojicha which is roasted and does not taste at all like a green tea. I wasn't crazy about this tea; if I had to divide all dragon wells into "good dragonwell" vs. "bad dragonwell" this one almost falls between the two categories, sort of like Yuengling is hailed by some of my friends as living in a category between "cheap beers" and "good beers". It didn't really seem true to the dragon well...http://ratetea.com/review/4815/http://ratetea.com/review/4815/Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:25:31 ESTThis is quite close to Murchie's "Cozy Caramel Rooibos" for the tastiest African redbush tea I've had so far. I got this earlier today from a kiosk in the Portland airport, where the clerk dropped two decent-sized sachets of this in a large cup for me. Never even heard of it before... The floral and vanilla levels neither overwhelm the rooibos nor are dominated by it, achieving an ideal balance. I suspect this was recommended by taste tests undertaken at the behest of marketing consultants, but such ...http://ratetea.com/review/4540/http://ratetea.com/review/4540/Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:43:45 ESTFirstly, let me preface this by saying that I HATE Roiboos. But for a roiboos-based blend this one is tolerable (so most people I bet will like it). Smells very sweet - and has a vanilla taste to it that makes it palatable. I had this at an event and would never purchase a box. Blargh!http://ratetea.com/review/4519/http://ratetea.com/review/4519/Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:09:07 ESTOverpriced, but quite tasty. I'm enjoying this more than I do many flavored white teas. I can detect the tea without a problem, in contrast to the previous reviewers who felt the fruitiness to be overpowering. It held up to a second steeping well, though dust collected at the bottom of the cup.http://ratetea.com/review/4513/http://ratetea.com/review/4513/Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:39:59 ESTThis was my favorite Darjeeling from a tea bag yet. The dry leaf of this tea, in the bag, smells amazing, even though it appears rather finely broken. There are sweet fruity notes, a hint of spice (caraway?) and some other qualities that I find distinctive but hard to describe. Brews up a cup that is initially smooth, but with some edgy qualities underneath. Notes of wintergreen come out in the aroma. The cup is fruity, light, and fresh, and the finish is more astringent than I'd expect from the s...http://ratetea.com/review/4506/http://ratetea.com/review/4506/Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:52:33 ESTA very smooth, yet somewhat complex mint that struck me as all or mostly spearmint, although Mighty Leaf doesn't specify exactly what mint is used. I'm a tough customer when it comes to mint teas; I've grown dozens of different types of mint in my gardens, and spent years carefully blending them. Most commercially available mint teas strike me as mediocre. But this one got my attention from as soon as I smelled the tea bag; the aroma of the dry leaf was smooth yet complex, mellow, creamy, like spear...http://ratetea.com/review/4457/http://ratetea.com/review/4457/Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:50:46 ESTThis tea was surprisingly good and I think was one of the best flavored teas that I've tried yet from Mighty Leaf, definitely my favorite black tea of theirs too. Served in Central Perk Coffee Shop in Newark, DE. The base tea has a strong warming quality and is rich and aromatic. On the website, I see they list tea as being a blend from China and Sri Lanka; the Chinese black tea is evident in this blend, with a warming quality and a rich but smooth heartiness. The vanilla flavoring is subtle, not a...http://ratetea.com/review/4360/http://ratetea.com/review/4360/Tue, 05 May 2015 08:47:42 ESTA few years back my wife was in the hospital for a 12 days stretch, and I was there with her to watch and wait. I didn't have a lot of creature comforts at that time, but I did have some matches of Green Tea Tropical. Without a way to get hot water (I wasn't one to ask for things or venture far from the room at the time), I brewed this in a water bottle over and over throughout the day with cold tap, one bag per day until it ran out. It probably sounds awful, but it wasn't. The tea held up to all those col...