Plantation Mint® Black Tea
25
Percentile
8 ratings |
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Commercial Description
You will find Plantation Mint® a delightful flavor surprise. We use only the finest mountain-grown tea blended with natural spearmint.
Ratings & Reviews
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61 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5Tchuggin' Okie (426 reviews) on Sep. 22nd, 2021
RateTea has been good for my life, by motivating me to variegate my tea sampling, and opening up new flavor and olfactory worlds. How's that for advertorial testimony? :-) That, however, has included getting me to sample nasty to mediocre teas, as well as some very good ones I otherwise wouldn't have had. This classifies mostly as "mediocre".
Another motel tea I grabbed to taste for rating's sake, this spearmint-blended black tea left me in a dilemma. Tolerant of spearmint, but far preferring peppermint, I knew personal taste would drag this rating down some. Of course it did. But *for* a spearmint tea, how is it? In short: not bad, not great! Spearmint, which isn't a particularly intense herb to begin with (at least vs. peppermint) thoroughly dominated the dry-bag and in-cup aroma, to the extent I couldn't detect the black tea. I barely could taste the black tea, and only with some conscious effort. Only in the wet-bag smell did the black tea become apparent, with spearmint still there. For this blend, Bigelow uses a good-quality spearmint—smooth and naturally sweet—but apparently a very weak black tea that limply whimpers in the background. It's basically a naturally caffeinated spearmint tea, and not bad at all for spearmint, if you're curious to try.
A side note: Bigelow has changed the first part of the tea name from "Plantation" to "Perfectly".
45 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5Difflugia (170 reviews) on Dec. 12th, 2018
Both the dry tea bag and brewing tea smell like straight-up spearmint oil.
Bigelow's base tea is too mild to stand up to the spearmint and I can neither taste nor smell any tea at all. Aside from the color, this is indistinguishable from plain spearmint. The spearmint is good, but I expect to taste tea in my tea.
I would buy spearmint herbal tea that tasted like this, but not black tea.
40 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5spaflam (180 reviews) on Dec. 3rd, 2013
I loathe mint tea and this one is no exception. Reminds me of a mild mouth rinse in tea form. Grossness.
70 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5geologyguy (108 reviews) on Sep. 27th, 2013
smell is good but not very strong, taste is a bit stronger than others which I like, mint flavor is just about perfect! quite good
93 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5Jonna (3 reviews) on Apr. 18th, 2012
This is my favorite tea. I drink a minimum of two cups a day, and my tea "cup" is a huge 2-cup mug. I sometimes add a drop or two of spearmint extract to give it more kick. No lemon, no milk/cream, just sweetener. I like to make mint-flavored iced tea with it also.
100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5MikaHatter (4 reviews) on Dec. 8th, 2009
My favorite of the peppermint teas out there. I have to have peppermint tea in my tea drawer or I go nuts.
73 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5Tanya (9 reviews) on Dec. 6th, 2009
A pleasant blend of mint and black tea. Tastes very nice and widely available. Not very aromatic, but the flavor is fine.
53 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Alex Zorach (1453 reviews) on Sep. 27th, 2009
Aroma is candy-like and flavor is very smooth. While this pales in comparison to brewing quality black tea together with fresh spearmint, it's enjoyable.
The black tea isn't the best quality and has only a weak aroma, but the spearmint is quite aromatic. There's no bitterness or astringency, even if you let it brew quite a long time.
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