French Vanilla Decaffeinated Black Tea
This page is for the decaf version. See also French Vanilla Black Tea.
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Commercial Description
...Its rich vanilla flavor will calm down even the most hectic of days...
Ratings & Reviews
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61 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Tchuggin' Okie (401 reviews) on Feb. 19th, 2019
I don't see a point in proactively obtaining this tea, especially for money. Here's another offering I got at no cost (the best way), thanks to its being available in a tea box at a meeting, at a Holiday Inn Express. I'll rate "value" based on the prices I usually see for Bigelow teas in-store.
The best part of this tea may be the aromas, from dry-bag to in-cup through wet-bag scents. They don't seem artificial to me, despite the presence of some artificial flavorings. However, the taste itself was more obviously off from what I'd expect from vanilla extract or vanilla-bean pieces, as some higher-quality teas use. Perhaps the artificial flavoring is more water-soluble, whereas the natural part (extract's essential oil or natural ester) is more amenable to evaporation onto the air (scent). I'm just speculating based on my increasingly fuzzy recollections of manufacturing vanilla ester in chemistry class. Or I stayed at Holiday Inn Express. :-) I did detect the base-tea flavor under a heavy load of vanilla flavoring, but it was very plain and featureless. The leaves are very finely chopped in-bag too, so the liquid gets very dark and opaque after a short steeping.
This wasn't a bad drink, but neither will it become a member of my purchasing roster. If you strongly want a vanilla-flavored black tea before bedtime, or you're offered this at no extra charge as I was, you certainly could do worse. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother, since a caffeinated version is available* and since part of the flavoring is artificial and soy-lecithin based.
* Not having chugged the caffeine-containing version yet, I can't make a comparison. I now want to try it, though, to see if more the the base tea stands out in the aromas and taste.
30 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 1/5 Value: 3/5Difflugia (170 reviews) on May. 9th, 2017
Opening the foil pouch releases the scent of vanilla and cream, like custard or eggnog. Adding the water makes the aroma overpowering. This is decaf, so there is probably little tea aroma. Even if there were any, though, it would be completely masked by the flavoring.
The flavoring has a rich sweetness to it, but the vanilla has the harsh edge of vanillin. There's no hint of tea. The flavor is actually spot-on for Dum Dum cream soda lollipops. Instead of a beverage in its own right, it might be good as a flavoring for coffee.
I'm glad this tea was part of a sampler box. I'd hate to have a whole box left.
70 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5BunnyKissd (3 reviews) on Dec. 6th, 2009
Perhaps it's the fact that it's decaf, but this just doesn't have the full bodied flavor as the Lipton French Vanilla Black Tea...
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