Reviews of Teas & Herbal Teas
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English Earl Grey Black Tea from TeaVivre
Style: Earl Grey Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon85 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
Jan. 22nd, 2026
Teavivre took a nice Ceylon black tea, added some bergamot oil, and then put it up for sale at a reasonable price. This is on the light and mellow side, with a good amount of bergamot flavor. Fruity and bright. I would say this as good a reasonably priced EG as can be found anywhere.
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Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea from TeaVivre
Style: Yunnan Red – Region: Yunnan, China80 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 5/5
Jan. 21st, 2026
This is a good Yunnan. It has a very nice aroma of autumn leaves plus a little wood smoke. The flavor is earthy, with a dash of iron, but things stay under control. Adding milk softens it a bit. This is a mellow cup, and well worth the low price. Thanks again to RateTea for introducing me to another fine tea selle...
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Lapsang Souchong Wild Black Tea (Ye Sheng Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong) from TeaVivre
Style: Lapsang Souchong – Region: Wuyi, Fujian, China90 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
Jan. 20th, 2026
This is a very nice surprise. I am used to lapsang souchongs that are thoroughly smoky, in fact I even thought lapsang souchong meant smoked tea (duh) - but this is another animal entirely. It is mellow and earthy, with a soft mouthfeel. There is no astringency or unpleasant notes, and it is nice with milk or on its ow...
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Vanilla Caramel Black Tea from Benner Tea Co
Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend68 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jan. 19th, 2026
Vanilla Caramel Black Tea comes in holiday packs and advent calendars at ALDI, and is a decent drink for the price, as long as one oversteeps it according to conventional measures.
Upon ripping open the wrapper and sniffing within, the dry aroma was nearly nonexistent, with a faint hint of vanilla tea. This tempe...
Fruity Paradise from Tiesta Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend92 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Jan. 4th, 2026
Fruity Paradise seems to epitomize the "Miscellaneous Blend" category on RateTea, as it contains pieces of four fruits (pineapple, mango, raspberry, strawberry), two tea types (green and black), a flower (rose petals), and "natural flavors." Though a 4-oz. plastic and aluminum can appears in the photo, it also comes i...
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Earl Grey Lavender from Benner Tea Co
Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend67 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 29th, 2025
Interesting tea, a step up from their standard Earl Grey flavor-wise, but hardly any aroma in-cup and almost none in the dry bag. The net effect rendered a slightly lower rating, though if given a rigidly binary choice between the two, I'd take this.
Revolution's version of this, with the same name, is still my fa...
Island Coconut Tea from Mlesna Tea
Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon63 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 26th, 2025
I got this tea in a gift box, made of lightweight wood, stamped with both Mlesna's and Metropolitan's branding, and containing a brick of 25 small teabags (about half the volume of Celestial, Murchie's or other similarly square to rectangular ones) wrapped in a single foil-colored plastic wrapper. Even after looking a...
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Mango Ceylon from Republic of Tea
Style: Fruit Black Tea – Region: Blend80 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Dec. 23rd, 2025
As with most teas from RoT, they come in disc-shaped pouches with tea-holding compartments about 3/4 inch in radius from center. That ain't much space for tea, and doesn't allow a lot of room for inflation of the wet tea either. They come stacked like Pringles chips in a steel can that has a paper label pasted on. C...
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Cinnamon Pear Green Tea from Benner Tea Co
Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend76 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
Dec. 19th, 2025
If two words could describe this product, they are "unexpected complexity." As with the other recent Benner ratings, this one came from a 2025 holiday gift pack that apparently has a limited run, though some of these teas have appeared before and may again.
The dry-bag aroma was weak and mostly fruity (pear), but...
Hibiscus Honey Lemon from Hawaiian Islands Tea Company
Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend41 / 100 Aroma: 2/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Dec. 18th, 2025
A heaping helping of dread overcame me when I first ripped open the paper/foil wrapper and caught the whiff of...fruit-scented ammonia cleaner. OK, it didn't quite smell that intense directly; it was more like someone using fruit-scented ammonia to clean the hallway floor while you're in the classroom. Decidedly unfa...
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Mandarin Ginger Green Tea from Benner Tea Co
Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend75 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 14th, 2025
Mandarin Ginger Green Tea is another product from this year's (2025) ribbon-wrapped holiday multipack, and may or may not return in the future. I hope it does. It's fairly good, especially at the price point of 12¢/bag. Note that this is not the same as Benner's Ginger Green Tea that is advertised on their website....
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Cinnamon Apple Herbal Tea from Lipton Tea
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend58 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 13th, 2025
It's back! Lipton Cinnamon Apple is available from a few grocery stores and is listed on Instacart, though curiously, not on Lipton's U.S. website yet. On the site, they provide only a recipe to make it yourself with Lipton Black tea:
2 cups water
2 bags Lipton® Black Tea
1 apple, cored and diced
1/4 tsp. ...
Chocolate Chai Black Tea from Benner Tea Co
Style: Chai / Spiced Tea – Region: Blend62 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 5th, 2025
This is my first from 6-tea holiday variety box purchased at ALDI. Based on the website "ALDI Reviewer," some of the teas have made seasonal appearances before, such as in Advent calendars containing teas and snacks. In case this is seen in time for 2025, they're brought back in future years, or you receive these tea...
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Nutcracker Nog Enhanced Waltz Herb Tea from Republic of Tea
Style: Flavored Rooibos – Region: Blend79 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Nov. 30th, 2025
This long-named tea is (for now) online at World Market and eBay, and in-store at the former, but not Republic of Tea's (RoT's) own site. The typically (for RoT) cylindrical steel container had 36 small round pouches of tea stacked like potato chips inside. A sticker adorned the lid, and was labeled as, "LIMITED EDIT...
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Turmeric Peppermint from Vahdam Teas
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend45 / 100 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Nov. 12th, 2025
Early in elementary school, a classmate occasionally brought, showed off and ate crazy foods he made, just to gross out others. One was a bologna and whipped-cream sandwich. The mindset: different just to be different, and get animated reactions to the uniqueness of his bizarre culinary combinations.
I thought ...
Oolong Tea (16 ct.) from Yamamotoyama
Style: Oolong Tea – Region: ?????67 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5
Nov. 5th, 2025
Yamamotoyama still packages this tea in the same box shown in the original image, which is at least 15 years old. Oddly, I got it on discount at a Safeway in Hilo, for less than I've seen it at Asian stores in the mainland. So I drank about half the box while staying near the volcano, and am finishing the balance aft...
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Mango Peach from Hawaiian Natural Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend70 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5
Oct. 26th, 2025
Highly recommended if you are not concerned with how much you're spending and are willing to double up the bags! Even more than the others, this flavored tea blend bursts with aroma when tearing open the standard-sized wrapper. Mango and peach are well-balanced with each other there and in the taste, and linger pleasa...
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Juniper Mint Honey from Tazo Tea
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: United States of America79 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Oct. 23rd, 2025
This is the second tea I've found that is, "inspired by the Rocky Mountains," the other being (what else?) Murchie's Rocky Mountain Blend. They are vastly different! The latter is a robust black-tea mix. Tazo's is a purely herbal tea whose leading ingredient, true to title, is juniper berries. Next time I head to t...
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Elder Goth from Tea & Absinthe
Style: Flavored Rooibos – Region: ?????100 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
Oct. 22nd, 2025
This is a lovely tea -- especially given its ingredients. I don't normally enjoy licorice or anise, but here they magically blend beautifully. This is going to go on my regular "to get" list.
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Passionfruit Orange from Hawaiian Natural Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Hawaii, United States65 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Oct. 18th, 2025
Passionfruit Orange is the second of this company's teas I'm reviewing, from a 3-blend variety pack that also included Pinneapple Strawberry and Mango Peach. Like the others, it punches above its weight, but its weight is still puny enough for this to be just a pleasant, but overly mild tea.
Despite being packaged ...
Southern Blends: Watermelon and Honey Flavored Green Tea from Luzianne
Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend46 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5
Oct. 12th, 2025
For a tea that seemed promising or at least interesting when spotted on a discount/clearance rack, I soon realized why it may have been cleared from inventory. First, the title of this tea is a little deceiving, because one of the two stated flavors doesn't even appear on the ingredients label, but instead, presumably...
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Fancy Assam Tea from Simpson & Vail
Style: Assam – Region: Assam, India95 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
Oct. 8th, 2025
Classic Assam aroma, with a bit of a fruit under tone. Liquor is a deep amber/red (5 minute steep). Flavor is excellent Assam. Overall, an excellent blend.
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Duke Cardiff's Black Tea Blend from Simpson & Vail
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend55 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Oct. 8th, 2025
Heavy fruit aroma. Liquor is a pleasant amber (5 min steep). Not a bad tea, just something I would not enjoy on a regular basis. Might be just what an Earl Grey fan is looking for. Might be a good dessert tea. Not for me.
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Organic Cup of Calm® from Traditional Medicinals
Style: Wellness Tea / Medicinal Tea – Region: Blend70 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Oct. 8th, 2025
This blend includes chamomile, passionflower, lavender flower, as well as catnip, rosemary, peppermint, spearmint, and stevia leaves. That sounds like it should be a pleasant mix to quaff, and indeed it is.
Cup of Calm lacks the disjointed, mulch-like taste of many large-list herbals and medicinals, instead comin...
Pineapple Strawberry from Hawaiian Natural Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend69 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5
Oct. 5th, 2025
This tea came in a 3-blend variety box, with sealed paper wrappers segregated into 3 plastic bags by flavor. Each blend (along with Mango Peach and Passionfruit Orange) also is sold in a 20-bag box unto itself, and purports to imbue the intrepid tea chugger with the spirit of the islands. Since I was there to photogr...
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