Reviews of Teas & Herbal Teas
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Hibiscus Spice from Teavana
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend78 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Jul. 27th, 2026
Hibiscus Spice tastes like its title promises, and that's a good thing. The blend uses a sweet, smooth hibiscus as the main flavor, with cinnamon, apple, and perhaps cloves (all flavors I enjoy), in that order. It yields a delicious, non-caffeinated cup of warming fruit tea that should make a splendid wintertime bedt...
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Lemon Flavored Black Tea from Rituals
Style: Fruit Black Tea – Region: ?????66 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jul. 24th, 2026
Lemon Flavored certainly doesn't skimp on the flavoring, regardless of how much actually comes from lemon peel*. Both the dry bag and in-cup aromas are decidedly lemony, but with a sharper tone than the flavor itself, which isn't tart at all. The lemon flavor is sweet and smooth, more candy-like, and dominates the ba...
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Premium Green Tea from Stash Tea
Style: Green Tea – Region: Brazil76 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jul. 22nd, 2026
Here's another from this year's assortment of newly tried and/or reviewed teas procured at hotels and motels during typically extensive springtime travels. Stash is a common brand at a lot of chain hotels in the upper portion of the price/quality spectrum that still offers complimentary breakfast. This one came from ...
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Classic Chai from Teavana
Style: Chai / Spiced Tea – Region: Blend79 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Jul. 19th, 2026
Risen like a phoenix thanks to its Starbucks ties, the Teavana brand has rolled out an assortment of bagged teas available in online versions of retailers like Amazon (to where Teavana's website links point) and Wal-Mart, and found in some hotels and conference centers for guest breakfast areas and catering of meetings...
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Glühfix (Gluehwein Tea Mix) from Teekanne
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend81 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Jun. 29th, 2026
Contrary to the English sound of the name, this tea has nothing whatsoever to do with the aroma or taste of glue, and that's a good thing! Glühfix is a herb-and-spice mix that comes in ordinary, string-and-tag teabags, but can serve two purposes: to steep and drink as with any other herbal, or as advertised on Teeka...
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Lemon Ginger Plus Probiotics Herbal Tea from Bigelow Tea
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend68 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Jun. 29th, 2026
Bigelow has trotted out a few herbals with lemon and ginger involved, so I don't know how much this differs from the others in ingredients (aside from the presumed probiotics, which I still wonder about surviving the boiling water of the steeping process). Based on RateTea's listings, they are titled:
* Ginger Snap...
Roastaroma Herbal Tea from Celestial Seasonings
Style: Coffee Alternative / Substitute – Region: ?????55 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
Jun. 16th, 2026
For many years, I've simply avoided this herbal tea, given its promotion as an "alternative to coffee." I can't stand coffee, somehow, despite my parents both being avid drinkers of the beverage. So I didn't even give this concoction a second thought until this year, at a hotel in Denver, when I caught a dry-aroma whi...
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Organic Chai Tea from Equal Exchange
Style: Chai / Spiced Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon74 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
Jun. 10th, 2026
This is a somewhat sweet and strong chai, heavy on the cloves, cinnamon and cardamom, and with a little peppery nature to the aroma as well. It uses a pleasantly potent Ceylon base tea, along with other spices sourced from a farmers' association in Sri Lanka.
It took some tongue acclimation for this lover of Assa...
Organic Peppermint from Traditional Medicinals
Style: Peppermint Tea – Region: United States of America80 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
Apr. 20th, 2026
As I've noted here before, peppermint is hard to mess up. It can be done, mind you—usually through neglect or delay in processing the plucked plant pieces—but fortunately, that's not common. Traditional Medicinals did not mess up their peppermint, which is sourced in unspecified part(s) of the Pacific Northwest.
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Apple Chai Black Tea from Benner Tea Co
Style: Chai / Spiced Tea – Region: Blend73 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 30th, 2026
Not to be confused with their straight chai tea (sans apple flavoring), this is a seasonal or irregular product that I've found in "Holiday Tea" variety packs and an advent tea calendar from ALDI for a couple of years, alongside "Chocolate Chai."
Here, the apple flavoring definitely adds some sweetness and variety t...
Jasmine Green Tea from O Organics
Style: Jasmine Tea – Region: ?????80 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 1st, 2026
Sometimes a tea is a most pleasant surprise. This was that. I didn't expect a store-brand bagged version to be one of the best jasmine green teas I've had. Whomever made this for Safeway did not skimp on either the potency of the tea or on the jasmine infusions, which scented the tea quite well for both aroma and fla...
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Moringa Honey & Vanilla from Miracle Tree
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon73 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 23rd, 2026
At just under a quarter per teabag (per online price and retail at an H-E-B store in north Texas), this had better be at least a passably decent product. Most teas I've had made of chopped tree leaves (such as a mango-leaf tea I've got from Thailand) taste like...chopped tree leaves, as if one would run small limbs of...
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Black Tea from Newman's Own Organics
Style: Black Tea – Region: Blend56 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 19th, 2026
My version (with photo uploaded as of Feb. 2026) is just called "Organic Black Tea" with no "Royal" on the packaging. Presumably this is different from the "Royal Tea" depicted in another entry and in the previous photo for this tea. Or maybe not? Either way, it's truer to the name of this pre-existing listing, so h...
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Turmeric, Mango & Ginger from O Organics
Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend74 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 17th, 2026
This herbal tea comes in standard-sized stringed bags with a paper O Organics tag, all swaddled within a foil-lined paper pouch. That does a nice job of sealing and preserving the aroma, which is well-balanced and strong coming out of the dry bag, and which persists in-sup during steeping.
Some flavor combinations ...
Ciao Amaretto Tea from Mlesna Tea
Style: Flavored Black Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon42 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 1/5
Feb. 1st, 2026
Two things may factor into this rating, for full disclosure:
1. Not being a drinker of alcoholic beverages, I didn't know what "amaretto" was supposed to taste like, so I can't say how faithfully the tea replicates the flavor of the liqueur.
2. The tea comes from a light-colored, wooden gift box that's co-branded w...
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 (each bag being about half the volume of Celestial, Murchie's or other similarly square to rectangular ones) wrapped in a single foil-colored plastic wrapper. Even ...
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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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