Tea: Regenerative Organic Darjeeling
A Darjeeling Black Tea from Tazo Tea - 
Organic
| Brand: | Tazo Tea |
| Style: | Darjeeling Black Tea |
| Region: | Darjeeling, India |
| Caffeine: | Caffeinated |
| Loose? | Teabag |
| # Ratings: | 1 View All |
Reviewer: Tchuggin' Okie
✓ 418 teas reviewed
✓ 6 of Darjeeling Black Tea
✓ 80 of Black Tea
✓ 14 of Tazo Tea
✓ 8 from Darjeeling, India
✓ 22 from India
Review of Regenerative Organic Darjeeling
March 30th, 2025
| Aroma | Flavor | Value | Total |
| 6 of 10 | 3 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 58 of 100 |
| Good | Fair | Reasonable |
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 Tazo packaging, but is either:
1. Food-service only (how I got it, at a conference in the Kansas City suburbs), or
2. Retail, but somehow out of stock at the same time at every online store I checked (Amazon, Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc.).
It's also not listed on Tazo's website as of this writing, though three other "Regenerative Organic" teas are: Awake English Breakfast, Earl Grey and Chai.
All that confusion duly acknowledged, how's the tea, and what does it regenerate? I couldn't find an answer on the latter, since after drinking it, I still haven't regained any known functions or body parts that I've lost over the years. However, the tea itself was interesting, and not necessarily in good ways.
The dry-bag aroma was the most pleasant aspect, but unusually mild, consistent with most Darjeelings I've had if you twist their volume knob down a few notches. The in-cup aroma was nearly nonexistent. The liquid got darker than usual for a Darjeeling...more like most other black teas instead. Taste, while more typical of a smooth, unimposing, middle-of-the-road Darjeeling, became a somewhat time-delayed metallic or rusty in each sip. Across multiple sips and two teabags—one at the conference in city water, one at home in well water—this phenomenon was reproducible. My reaction in each: "pretty good for a second...uh, wait a minute...ahh, yuck." I might be rating this tea a tad generously on the flavor stars, but I'm trying to give it *some* benefit of the doubt, based on Tazo's overall good track record, that I may have sampled an old or sub-optimal batch. I hope so. If not, and if this tea really has been discontinued again, then...deservedly so, and don't regenerate it.
