Reviews of Teas & Herbal Teas
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Chardwar Estate FTGFOP1 Assam Organic from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Assam – Region: Assam, India60 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 5/5
Jun. 27th, 2025
This is a decent, budget-priced Assam. It lacks the full, malty flavor that a first-rate Assam should have, but it is not bad. A little thin and mild, but perfectly drinkable.
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Kenilworth Estate OP from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Ceylon Black Tea – Region: Kandy, Sri Lanka75 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jun. 27th, 2025
This is a smooth, easy to drink Ceylon tea. It is versatile - it goes well with milk or lemon, and it would probably be just fine on ice. The aroma is pleasantly earthy. You can't go wrong by choosing this.
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No. 1 Tippy Orthodox GFOP Darjeeling from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Darjeeling Black Tea – Region: Darjeeling, India90 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
Jun. 25th, 2025
The aroma has a mild stone fruit scent. The liquor (5 min steep) is reddish brown. Flavor is a pleasing Darjeeling. the tea would be an excellent sip all day. I will move it into my regular rotation.
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Hibiscus Mint Tea from Nile Valley Teas
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend77 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Jun. 23rd, 2025
Overall, this is a great choice for non-caffeinated iced tea, especially if brewed up over a few hours as a sun tea.
I got this fine little blend at an H-E-B supermarket in the DFW Metroplex, where several teas reviewed here were purchases that can't be found at any of my usual haunts in Oklahoma. Unlike most tea...
Calm & Relax from Teekanne
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend67 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jun. 20th, 2025
This is a pleasant little herb tea that is probably worth grabbing on sale, but not as tasty as a few of Teekanne's many other offerings. Calm and Relax has a long ingredients roster that reminds me a lot of Traditional Medicinals or Yogi teas: cinnamon, orange leaves, rooibos, licorice, honeybush, chamomile, lemon b...
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Marrakesh Mint Tea from Mighty Leaf Tea
Style: Green Tea with Mint – Region: China42 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 1/5
Jun. 9th, 2025
NOTE: 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 packagi...
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Steep English Breakfast Fair Trade Certified Black Tea from Bigelow Tea
Style: English Breakfast – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon78 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Jun. 4th, 2025
Surprisingly, this was one of the smoothest and most pleasant flavor experiences I've had with bagged black Ceylon tea, and perhaps Bigelow's best in that category. How much of that resulted from a baseline of lower expectations? Admittedly, most of the "Steep" line hasn't impressed me much, especially considering th...
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Naturally Decaffeinated Tea from Bromley Tea
Style: Black Tea – Region: ?????69 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
May. 23rd, 2025
Likely, I'll never rate a decaf black tea in the upper 20%, simply because the processes involved usually strip away aroma and flavor and add some sort of unnatural (usually metallic) tinge to the taste. Imagine my surprise, then, when this decaf tasted rather smooth and moderately strong, with only the very faintest ...
Read Full ReviewPothotuwa Estate Ceylon Silver Tip from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Black Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon85 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
May. 22nd, 2025
The aroma is sweet, solid Ceylon aroma. The liquor (5 min steep) is a deep brown. Flavor is good, and has a distinct fruit taste ( I get peaches). Overall a good Ceylon. I would add this tea to my regular rotation.
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Steep Chamomile Citrus Herbal Tea from Bigelow Tea
Style: Chamomile Blend – Region: Blend67 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
May. 22nd, 2025
Flavored chamomiles can vary a lot in quality, so I figured going in that this blend would have either too little citrus (lemon), rendering it a meekly flavored chamomile, or so much lemon that the chamomile was a distant whisper. Amazingly, they were well-balanced! This was especially true in the aromas, which were ...
Read Full ReviewWhisky Barrel Smoked Japanese- Cherrywood from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Black Tea – Region: Japan75 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
May. 21st, 2025
Strong smoky aroma. The liquor (5 min steep) is a brownish red. There are cherry notes that linger as an after taste. This tea might be a good pairing with dessert. I would use it for all day sipping.
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Earl Grey Decaf from Mighty Leaf Tea
Style: Earl Grey Tea – Region: Blend71 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 2/5
May. 12th, 2025
Here'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 la...
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Steep Organic Green Tea & Pomegranate from Bigelow Tea
Style: Fruit Green Tea – Region: ?????42 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5
May. 8th, 2025
Somehow, with the "organic" promotional pump and the higher cost, I expected this tea to improve upon the non-organic Bigelow version that doesn't have the "Steep" name attached. Instead, I rated it 20 points lower, with the "value" as overpriced. It costs more than the "normal" pomegranate-flavored green tea from Bi...
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Crème Caramel Tea from TWG Tea
Style: Flavored Rooibos – Region: Blend76 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Apr. 22nd, 2025
From my first sniff of this tea in TWG's Bangkok shop to the latest chug, I'm struck by the strong resemblance of this flavored rooibos to Murchie's "Cozy Caramel Rooibos." Both use high-quality rooibos with suitably strong flavorings (in this case, as described on TWG's website, "a secret TWG Tea blend of sweet Frenc...
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Vietnam Black Tea from Simpson & Vail
Style: Black Tea – Region: Vietnam75 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Apr. 17th, 2025
The aroma has a pleasant fruitiness. The liquor (5 minute steep) is a medium brown. The flavor is mild, and tasty, with a slight sweet after taste. Would be good as a base for a blended tea. Tasty.
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Organic Darjeeling Estate from Mighty Leaf Tea
Style: Darjeeling Black Tea – Region: Darjeeling, India85 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Apr. 8th, 2025
Finally, 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...
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Oi Ocha Green Tea from ITO EN
Style: Green Tea – Region: Japan79 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Apr. 6th, 2025
ITO EN's Oi Ocha has become my favorite straight Japanese green tea pretty quickly. It was one of my favorites of several teas in my daughter's pantry in Bangkok, on decent water (reverse-osmosis filtration of the otherwise risky city tap water), and seems even better on my mineralized but filtered well water at home....
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Regenerative Organic Darjeeling from Tazo Tea
Style: Darjeeling Black Tea – Region: Darjeeling, India58 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Mar. 30th, 2025
For starters, I don't know the current availability status of this tea, or if it is the same as the original Tazo Darjeeling, which was not called "Regenerative Organic" and which has been retired for several years, at least. It apparently made a comeback or new beginning in this form, and clearly is in contemporary T...
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Napoléon Tea from TWG Tea
Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend91 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 27th, 2025
Napoléon Tea conquered me, quickly. Of all the samplers I sniffed in TWG's Bangkok store, this was one of the strongest, and certainly the most attractive to me in terms of choosing a priority for which ones to buy. The dry and in-cup aromas weren't quite as intense as the sampler, but still quite mouth-watering.
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Three Mint from Pukka
Style: Mint Tea – Region: ?????60 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Mar. 21st, 2025
Here's a blend of spearmint, peppermint and "field mint" (presumably wild mint), with a nice but unremarkable dry-bag aroma. The flavor was pleasant, smooth, and mild overall...too mild. As I've noted here before, I prefer the sharp, strong hit of a potent peppermint tea to all other mint teas; "potent" this was not,...
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Chamomile Citrus from Mighty Leaf Tea
Style: Chamomile Blend – Region: Egypt78 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Mar. 16th, 2025
Here'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! ...
Read Full ReviewJin Jun Mei from Yunnan Sourcing
Style: Black Tea – Region: Fujian, China80 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 13th, 2025
The aroma is 'wood, spice' with a slight fruit influence. The liquor (5 min steep) is a clear reddish brown. Taste is smooth with a slight tart after taste. Classic Yunnan. Enjoyable anytime tea.
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Singapore Breakfast Tea from TWG Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend88 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 12th, 2025
Contrary to the established custom of a "breakfast tea", this isn't just a blend of black teas, or black tea with a mild flavoring. Instead, Singapore Breakfast mixes green tea, black tea, vanilla, and unspecified "rare spices". Given the fruitiness of both the aroma and flavor, and the known pieces in the mix, I sus...
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White Orchard from Mighty Leaf Tea
Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: China72 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Mar. 10th, 2025
This 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. S...
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Golden Earl Grey from TWG Tea
Style: Earl Grey Tea – Region: Blend78 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Mar. 3rd, 2025
This tea came from a TWG shop in Bangkok, weighed and bagged onsite out of the top 1/4 of a wholesale bucket. As such, it smelled and tasted (and should be!) really fresh, and is excellent in quality on both counts. The dry aroma is quite fruity, more in a berry-like way than citrus, but with the bergamot orange stil...
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