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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Golden Earl Grey from TWG Tea

Style: Earl Grey Tea – Region: Blend

78 / 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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Trailesque

(165 reviews)

Detox - Pure Infusion from Shanti Tea

Style: Herbal Tea – Region: ?????

55 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5
Feb. 20th, 2025

I don't know enough to comment on how healthy this tea really is, but it is made of "schisandra berries, burdock, yellow dock, lemongrass, dandelion leaf, red clover, and natural essences", so draw your own conclusions. I have never heard of some of those before, but it tastes all right, and has a mellow, herbal tisane...

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Uplift (Minty Lemon Green) from Shanti Tea

Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Darjeeling, India

60 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Feb. 20th, 2025

This is a fairly light, snappy Darjeeling green plus some peppermint, and a dash of lemon (which the company website calls "lemon pieces and natural lemon essence.") Overall, it is pleasant enough. It is advertised as "perfect for hot summer days" and they recommend cold brewing it, so I will have to try it on ice at...

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JGS1122

(138 reviews)

Simao Spring tips from Yunnan Sourcing

Style: Yunnan Gold – Region: Yunnan, China

70 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 19th, 2025

The aroma is mild with a slight woodiness. The liquor (5 minute steep) is a pleasant relish brown. Solid Yunnan flavor. No surprises from this 'first flush'. Tasty sipping tea. Mild enough to be overwhelmed by cream, milk, or sugar.

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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Yellow Label Tea from Lipton Tea

Style: Black Tea – Region: Blend

50 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Feb. 18th, 2025

I got this tea at an eatery in Bangkok, and also from my daughter who lives there, and brought a bag home to try on the same well water in which I've reviewed other teas here. I'm not convinced it was worth hauling back its couple grams of dry weight in the suitcase.

In every way, this tea struck me as essentiall...

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Morning Storm Tea from TWG Tea

Style: Black Tea – Region: Blend

75 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Feb. 11th, 2025

This is the first of a handful of loose teas I purchased, for somewhat of a high price (even in the otherwise favorable baht/USD conversion), at TWG's nicely done Emporium Mall store in Bangkok. Now that I'm home, they'll be rotated in behind teas being used up.

Admittedly, I got Morning Storm mainly for the name, ...

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JGS1122

(138 reviews)

China Black Mu Dan from Upton Tea Imports

Style: Black Tea – Region: Hunan, China

80 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 6th, 2025

Aroma is a subtle sweet (peach) scent. The liquor (5 minute steep) is a light brown with amber. The flavor is good, with the fruit after taste. A good choice for an all day sip. I would buy this again.

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Trailesque

(165 reviews)

Wakocha Japanese Black from Shanti Tea

Style: Black Tea – Region: Japan

65 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Jan. 15th, 2025

I was curious to try this. I associate Japan with twig teas, tea mixed with puffed rice, green teas, and matchas, and I never heard of Wakocha before - so this is something new for me. It is a good black tea, not as premium as the price may indicate, but not bad at all. It has a lightly astringent, earthy flavor, and...

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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Pure White Tea from Twinings

Style: White Tea – Region: Fujian, China

45 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 2/5
Jan. 11th, 2025

It's cool when the host of an AirBnB leaves a variety of teas, and even cooler when one is a new tea for me to try.

Unfortunately, even for white tea, this was underwhelming overall. The dry-bag aroma may have been the best part: mild, but somewhat floral, yet distinctively tea-dominant, as if this would be a del...

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Trailesque

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Fountain of Youth from Shanti Tea

Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: ?????

55 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5
Jan. 10th, 2025

Green tea with "cinnamon, berries, herbs, and flowers." That sounds good, but overall it is bland and light, without much flavor of either tea or adjuncts. The aroma is nice enough, and it is reasonably priced, but this is another disappointing tea in my last batch from Shanti. It could be that they are using up ingred...

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Black Maple from Shanti Tea

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: ?????

65 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5
Jan. 8th, 2025

This has a strong, pipe tobacco-like aroma. The flavor is mild black tea - not the "strong black tea" the label mentions - plus a dash of maple. It makes a pleasant cup, with milk and sugar.

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Winter Wonderland from Shanti Tea

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: ?????

40 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 1/5 Value: 2/5
Jan. 6th, 2025

I am pretty disappointed in this one, as I have had other flavored teas from Shanti that were very impressive. This is very bland, and lacks both spice and tea flavor. I made a few cups, and tried longer steeps, but to no avail. The list of ingredients is promising, but the tea itself is a dud.

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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Chamomile Blush from Teavana

Style: Chamomile Blend – Region: Blend

33 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 1/5
Jan. 6th, 2025

Chamomile Blush will make one blush all right—not for the usual reasons, but from the shame or embarrassment of paying so much for such a weak, weird tea.

The stated ingredients are simple enough: chamomile, spearmint, rose, and lemongrass. The result is a disjointed, odd combination of flavors that, in my exp...

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Peppermint Bark from Great Value

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend

59 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Jan. 1st, 2025

Peppermint Bark doesn't have much bite, but it's still fairly tasty. Overall, the tea fulfills its mission to replicate the flavor of the candy, with a creamy, smooth, almost savory taste, and a reasonably good balance between the mint and chocolate. That's because cocoa shells and carob are used to flavor the tea, i...

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Brytta Sóþword

(336 reviews)
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Blue of London from Palais des Thés

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend

78 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 24th, 2024

I’m not a huge Earl Grey person, but I think this one is done well! The flavor is strong and pleasant. I brewed it as directed (200°F, steeped for four minutes). I covered it while brewing with a silicone mug cap. It drank two good-size mugs of this tea and enjoyed both. People into bagged Earl Grey should like this...

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Butterscotch Blondie from Tazo Tea

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend

92 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 23rd, 2024

Lovely tea! It smells and tastes quite good for a bagged tea. I enjoy its level of sweetness, which does taste like butterscotch. Solid quick tea.

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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Radiant Green from Teavana

Style: Green Tea – Region: China

60 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5
Dec. 23rd, 2024

How can a green tea be radiant? Is it radioactive, glowing green? Fortunately, the answer is, "No. It's just a name."

This is another in a line of Teavana bagged teas that now come with fairly typical folded bag, string and tag, and is overpriced by a factor of two to three for what one gets, on most sites wher...

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Cocoa Berry Black Tea Blend from Trader Joe's

Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Blend

76 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 21st, 2024

The RateTea page for Trader Joe's states, "Many of Trader Joe's teas are experimental and are only available for short runs before being discontinued." Such appears to be the case for this interesting blend, which is specifically advertised on the website as "Limited time only!" as of Dec. 2024. Maybe that's because ...

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spaflam

(180 reviews)
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Asian Jasmine 100% White Tea from Republic of Tea

Style: Jasmine Tea – Region: Fujian, China

80 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 19th, 2024

I enjoyed this slightly floral (jasmine) and very white, simple tea. Very good on it's own - I prefer it hot. Not enough body for an iced tea. I did add a bit of maple syrup to it, but it is fine unsweetened, too. I like it.

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Tchuggin' Okie

(426 reviews)
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Maple Toffee from Murchie's Tea & Coffee Ltd

Style: Miscellaneous Blend – Region: Blend

87 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Dec. 9th, 2024

For a thoroughly delicious tea blend, this offering is something of a mystery. Within a couple months after I ordered it last year, Maple Toffee disappeared from the Murchie's website, and hasn't returned in over a year. It's either seasonal, sold out or discontinued. I don't know which, but sadly, am starting to su...

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Ginger Peach from Teavana

Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend

45 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 2/5
Nov. 30th, 2024

Going off the price listed on Amazon ($15/24-ct box as of this writing), this tea is not worth the trouble. After tasting it, I'm not sure I'll even try it for "free" again at a conference or hotel.

This is supposed to be a ginger- and peach-flavored green tea, which sounds like a good combination, and somewhat sm...

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Mint Herbal Tea from Rituals

Style: Peppermint Tea – Region: ?????

76 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Nov. 29th, 2024

Peppermint tea is going to get a good rating from me in general, since I like the flavor so much, unless the leaves are stale and/or weak. This is neither—flavorful and smooth, with a nice dry- and wet-bag aroma, as well as smell and taste in-cup. A restaurant serving this tea, especially in a small cup to maximize...

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Harmonic Mint from Teavana

Style: Mint Tea – Region: Blend

58 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5
Nov. 21st, 2024

Teavana takes a blend of spearmint and peppermint, dashes in a dollop of lemon verbena, and offers it now in teabags. Given the apparently identical ingredients, I strongly suspect this is a renaming or reincarnation of the former "Mint Majesty Full Leaf Tea Sachets" rated here seven years ago by Bob Downs. It gave o...

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Baker Street Blend from Murchie's Tea & Coffee Ltd

Style: Green and Black Tea Blend – Region: Blend

62 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Nov. 17th, 2024

This is such a daring mix of different tea types that it's hard to believe the blend is over 100 years old, instead of a seasonal or experimental offering. Baker Street (per Murchie's website) is the same as their popular and longstanding No. 10 Blend, but with one tea added: Lapsang Souchong. So in total, the blend...

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English Breakfast (tea bags) from Teavana

Style: English Breakfast – Region: Blend

75 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Nov. 12th, 2024

Another bagged offering arrives from Teavana's latest comeback push, which finds its teas (including this one) in late 2024 in online stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, and even Staples (where the price was lowest as of this writing, but still around $12 for a 24-ct box).

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