This is the feed of all reviews of Flavored Tea on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/style/flavored-tea/11/http://ratetea.com/review/7159/http://ratetea.com/review/7159/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:49:26 ESTThis 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 Assam to get used to a chai made from a clearly different sort of black tea, but it mostly works. It swaps out the rich maltiness of Assam for a drier, sharper Ceylon foundation that gets really...http://ratetea.com/review/7157/http://ratetea.com/review/7157/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:57:59 ESTA light tea containing a good amount of peach and floral flavors. One can tell that there are artificial flavors added. A pleasant summer tea. http://ratetea.com/review/7150/http://ratetea.com/review/7150/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:58:34 ESTNot 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 to their chai recipe, which is needed, given that it otherwise is a rather flat chai blend. Since it's a smooth and not particularly sharp nor spicy chai, the apple takes over with little eff...http://ratetea.com/review/7147/http://ratetea.com/review/7147/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:48:31 ESTSometimes 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 flavor. Bonus: as I found out by accident, it tolerates long steeping (10 minutes plus) nicely without getting overly bitter. Yet even a normal time of around 3 or 4 minutes will yield good r...http://ratetea.com/review/7141/http://ratetea.com/review/7141/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:52:17 ESTTwo 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 with Metropolitan Tea, which I received as a gift. Links for such boxes exist on Mlesna's site, but don't work. Links for similar boxes also exist on Metropolitan's, but not this specific te...http://ratetea.com/review/7140/http://ratetea.com/review/7140/Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:36:39 ESTTeavivre 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. http://ratetea.com/review/7137/http://ratetea.com/review/7137/Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:34:31 ESTVanilla 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 tempered expectations. When pouring boiling water over the bag and into the cup, however, the caramel especially wafted strongly upward and for several feet into the room. Seldom have I noticed s...http://ratetea.com/review/7135/http://ratetea.com/review/7135/Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:47:12 ESTInteresting 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 favorite, being reasonably strong on all fronts. But Benner's, a recurring component of seasonal/holiday variety packs and advent calendars, is worth pouring into one's mouth. Based on the al...http://ratetea.com/review/7134/http://ratetea.com/review/7134/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:53:44 ESTI 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 at both companies' websites, I'm not sure if one company owns the other now, or if they just have a joint-branding agreement, since Mlesna is based in Sri Lanka, and presumably produces the te...http://ratetea.com/review/7133/http://ratetea.com/review/7133/Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:17:03 ESTAs 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. Cracking off the steel and plastic lid releases a really nice, well-balanced dry aroma that is more complex than the flavor, and seems to mix mango with pineapple, banana and apple. Since the...http://ratetea.com/review/7132/http://ratetea.com/review/7132/Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:41:56 ESTIf 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 with the base tea detectable and the cinnamon fairly faint. Then things switched around! The in-cup aroma is the most-balanced element, with cinnamon and pear pretty much even, but element...http://ratetea.com/review/7131/http://ratetea.com/review/7131/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:21:54 ESTA 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 unfavorable first impression! I didn't expect anybody in the world to produce a tea that actually tasted like that, however, because who would buy it more than once? So...let's brew up some "Hi...http://ratetea.com/review/7130/http://ratetea.com/review/7130/Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:15:47 ESTMandarin 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. This is not that, with the addition of orange probably reflecting its seasonal nature. I think this should become part of their regular sales rotation. In fact, I wouldn't know this w...http://ratetea.com/review/7128/http://ratetea.com/review/7128/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:48:02 ESTThis 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 teas as a gift, I'll review them so you'll have some idea what to expect. As always with subjective things like tea ratings, your mileage may vary. ;-) Seldom have I had a tea with such wea...http://ratetea.com/review/7120/http://ratetea.com/review/7120/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:23:14 ESTFor 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, is wrapped inside the last ingredient in the list: green tea, hibiscus, licorice, rose hip, dried honey, orange peel, natural flavor. I couldn't smell or taste the licorice or orange ...http://ratetea.com/review/7114/http://ratetea.com/review/7114/Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:11:56 ESTI got some of this tea at a vacation cottage in Hawaii (yes, more Hawaiian teas coming soon..but this first!). I was not impressed at all. The tea smelled pretty nice in dry form, with a lot of vanilla and a little chai, but tasted extremely weak, so that I had to use two bags per cup to get much flavor. Even then, it seemed to be overcome by residual coffee aroma from the only reliable source of hot water (a Keurig machine). So I took a couple bags home, to give it one last fair, fighting chance to pr...http://ratetea.com/review/7112/http://ratetea.com/review/7112/Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:47:53 ESTExcellent tea! I like this one a lot. Its flavor is pleasantly strong without feeling fake or overwhelming. It did not brew up bitter at all. I put the loose leaf into a basket in a Keurig-like device, as that’s what I currently use for brewing at work. I got two very nice steeps out of the sample size, so that helps justify the cost — which is in the usual range for good loose leaf teas. Overall I enjoyed this tea!http://ratetea.com/review/7111/http://ratetea.com/review/7111/Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:38:35 ESTSolid tea! The aroma is nice, the tea is tasty, and I enjoy the Alice in Wonderland theme. :-)http://ratetea.com/review/7106/http://ratetea.com/review/7106/Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:47:52 ESTChamps de lavande means fields of lavender in French. On the product page, Upton brags about how Yahoo Life named this their best tea of the year for 1925. And it is a good one, different from the usual, that is for sure. I tasted a lot more vanilla than lavender, and the floral, spicy notes combine well with the tannins. For certain a nice, fancy tea. http://ratetea.com/review/7099/http://ratetea.com/review/7099/Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:53:05 ESTThis is a pleasant, orange flavored tea. It is made in Germany, like a lot of Upton's flavored and herbal teas are, but I don't know what the base tea is or where it is from. Despite the name, it is not very sweet, and the orange flavoring is fairly low key. It contains some orange peel, and it does smell quite a bit like a glass of orange juice. http://ratetea.com/review/7098/http://ratetea.com/review/7098/Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:22:40 ESTThis is a lightly smoky, jasmine flavored, dark green tea. The floral flavor is noticeable, but not very strong. It is well-balanced and not bitter, with a hint of ginger flavor. This is a good choice if you want a reasonably priced jasmine tea that is not overly floral. http://ratetea.com/review/7092/http://ratetea.com/review/7092/Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:42:07 ESTNOTE: 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 packaging for the individual sachets. Realizing that balancing a flavoring like mint with green tea is likely a delicately performed blending art, I still had some trouble getting into this blend...http://ratetea.com/review/7086/http://ratetea.com/review/7086/Mon, 12 May 2025 02:35:38 ESTHere'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 large payout is worth the trouble. For a decaf black tea, this Ceylon tea (per their website) is remarkably good, via both smell and taste. It doesn't have the tinny or metallic tone I get...http://ratetea.com/review/7085/http://ratetea.com/review/7085/Thu, 08 May 2025 03:05:23 ESTSomehow, 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 Bigelow, but has a weaker aroma and weaker hot taste. Though likely unintended by its makers, "Steep" in this case describes the relative cost as much as how to prepare the beverage. The a...http://ratetea.com/review/7079/http://ratetea.com/review/7079/Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:49:39 ESTNapoléon 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. As advertised on the website, vanilla and caramel are the dominant flavors and aromas for this tea, which tastes almost like candy upon a normal load of sweetening. By deduction, the "Fre...