True Blueberry® Herbal Tea
26
Percentile
16 ratings |
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Commercial Description
Often described as simply tasting blue, this tea has an intense wild blueberry flavor with subtle overtones of purple grapes. It's a sweet and deep berry flavor that's equally delicious hot and over ice.
Ratings & Reviews
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30 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 1/5 Value: 3/5Lurloo Lokkintoo (22 reviews) on Jun. 10th, 2020
My, oh my. This tea got a grape flavor. This for sure ain't got some blueberries in it, I'll tell ya'. It's grape. "True Grape" would better suit this tea. It's grape... Why'd it have to be grape... Anywho. I would recommend this tea only to my enemies. If you mistakenly bought it this week, throw it in the trash can with no hesitation, and with all of your strength. It ain't no blueberry tea. I grew up on blueberries. This tea is purple, man, and it's really not a blueberry tea. I'll tell all my friends this - I ate a blueberry every day from elementary school until this evening and this tea ain't got a speck of blueberry in it. Ya' might as well drink grape juice. I generally do not recommend this - it is not great, my friends... Save yourself. Don't drink this forsaken tea.
80 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5Whiskey (45 reviews) on Mar. 11th, 2020
I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting this to be so good. In my area, Mother Nature seems to be going through her "change" and we've been getting some wild hot and cold flashes. I'll go outside in a long sleeve shirt and border on sweating one day, then go outside in thermal pants, leg warmers, a down vest, two layers, and a jacket and still be freezing cold the next. I tend to drink Celestial Seasonings herbal teas during the summer, when I make iced tea out of them. In fact, I did make iced tea a few days ago. But, the Watermelon Lime Zinger that tastes great iced is sadly not nearly as good warm. I needed something warm today and decided to try this -- which has been sitting in my cupboard with the plastic still around the packaging for far too long. Though the dry tea bags weren't all that appealing in terms of scent, the scent of the tea brewing was wonderful. I ended up sitting and drinking a cup or two before going out for a walk and then taking a thermos with me, braving the sometimes bitter cold. It was a great flavor to complement the cold. It tastes like it would be great in autumn or even winter. It certainly was great today on the frigid cusp of spring. I look forward to trying it iced when the weather gets warmer.
In short: a great, sweet, lightly tart fruity herbal tea with a slight blueberry flavor, which is delicious served hot and needs no sweetener to be delicious.
69 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5Tchuggin' Okie (402 reviews) on Feb. 6th, 2019
After running out of my favorite blueberry-flavored tea faster than expected, I got this in a moment of desperation, made easier to rationalize by a temporarily low sale price at Sprouts.
True Blueberry is one of the few herbal teas I've tried whose primary advertised flavor smells substantially stronger in the dry bag, and even in the cup to some extent, than the taste yields. Sniffing the newly opened (or reopened) box of bags is quite pleasing, if one likes blueberries. I could make out the blueberry adequately in the taste, but it was nearly overpowered by the hibiscus, rose hips, orange peel, and other typical "Zinger" ingredients that CS uses for its fruity herbal line (even though this doesn't carry the Zinger name, per se). Also like other "Zingers", this one is a chameleon, changing colors as it steeps, starting maroon/purple and ending in a geenish-gray, somewhat opaque appearance. Overall, a modestly good experience...but the stated flavor could be more prominent and a bit less sour. At least I used up the box.
I didn't try this beverage iced, but now regret not doing so (I'm back to my usual Murchie's blueberry green tea). True Blueberry probably translates better iced than hot, but I'm not going to buy a box in wintertime, at regular price, just for that purpose.
57 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Difflugia (170 reviews) on Jul. 16th, 2018
This fruit tea smells just like crushed blueberries. Sipping the tea emphasizes the tartness and astringency of the hibiscus and rosehips that seem to be in all fruit tea these days. The finish tastes like canned blueberry pie filling.
The flavoring in this is too heavy. I think I'd just prefer the hibiscus and rosehips.
87 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5Sisqui (27 reviews) on Feb. 17th, 2017
One of my favorite CS teas. You can really taste the blueberry in this tea. This tea doesn't need sweetener either as it has a nice, full bodied taste.
60 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Luke (8 reviews) on Jul. 7th, 2016
It smells very nice, like blueberries, but there's a weird note of orange. Flavorwise, it tastes like it's an orange tea, not a blueberry tea, and unfortunately I don't like oranges.
My family members who *do* like oranges all enjoyed it, and it was good mixed in with something less orange, but if you don't like oranges you might not like it.
77 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5Brytta Sóþword (334 reviews) on Oct. 18th, 2014
Not bad! Lightly tart and simply blueberry, I enjoy this one. There's really nothing else going for it, but if you're in the mood for a straightforward fruit tea, it fits the bill. As people mentioned, the smell is more robust than the flavor. I tried this with milk and it made a decent (but not amazing) latte.
My biggest complaint is that it's only good for exactly one cup. The second cup has virtually nothing left to infuse: barely even tinting the color of the water. Hence, despite being low in price, the value on this one is still merely average.
40 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5Ariel Z (9 reviews) on May. 30th, 2014
Not bad, but it has a weird almost pungent (in a bad way) scent with a weirdly artificial aftertaste. Not bad, but not great.
67 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5Rebecca (2 reviews) on Jan. 4th, 2014
Not bad with honey. You get what you pay for.
67 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5geologyguy (108 reviews) on Sep. 3rd, 2013
smells of blueberry of course... but also slightly musty...may be the kettle or water brewed in... taste is lacking a bit... not as strong as hoped...but definitely a decent blueberry flavor...ok, but nothing grand
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