Today’s review will be of a couple flavored teas from Single Origin Teas. Majority of Single Origin Teas’ selection is unflavored, but they do have a small flavored line up filled with interesting tea blends.
By the way, Single Origin Teas will be at the Midwest Tea Festival in June 2015! If you are in the area be sure to check out the Midwest Tea Festival and report back!
Tasting of Single Origin Teas’ Flavored Tea
This oolong is sourced from Anteaques in Edinburgh, Scotland! Scottish tea! The leaf has a super orange scent with dark twists of oolong and curls of orange peel.
I steeped this tea at 190f for 2.5 minutes and it comes out a dark golden orange cup with powerful orange scent.
The taste of Orange Blossom Oolong is mostly of sweet navel orange. The flavor is strong and fresh and with a background of woodsy. This tea is like I’m eating an orange while on a wooded hike. There is a sweet floral orange after taste. This blend has a super orange flavor – a blend for someone who wants more flavor than tea. This mega orange oolong tea blend would make a great iced or cold brew, as well as being a great tea for kids.
I got a second infusion of the same leaves. The second round is still sweet orange, which is rare for a blend to carry on with the flavor, and a zesty after taste. This infusion is clean and refreshing with no dry or bitterness.
This is another tea sourced from Anteaques in Edinburgh, Scotland! The dry leaf is cute with delicate blue, yellow and red petals. I steeped this tea for 3 minutes with boiling water.
Blue Lady Black steeps up a dark woodsy red. The taste of Blue Lady is fruity, as if it was a Lady Grey but with tropical fruit instead of lemon/orange. The black is malty sweet, with mid sip being delicate tropical fruity, like mango and passionfruit. The finish is lightly dry. I could see this being pretty good with milk and sugar and and perfect for afternoon tea.
The dry leaf looks very good for a blend – the leaf looks large! There are also pieces of chestnut, but they like to hide at the bottom. The leaf is interesting looking with some thin black leaf as well as some wadded oolong like shapes.
The product page just mentions this is a Chinese oolong fully oxidized as a black tea. I steeped this tea with boiling water for 4 minutes.
Candied Chestnut Black‘s flavor is dead on chestnut – it’s thick creamy nutty with roasted skin notes with a sweet finish. The black tea is light, but with a deep roast flavor that works amazingly well with the chestnut. The aftertaste? More chestnut! This is so far the most natural tasting chestnut tea blend I’ve had, mostly as this isn’t as sweet as others I’ve tried.
I found I also got a pretty decent second infusion – you enjoy more of the base here, which is a thick creamy black with a hint of caramel finish, along with a little bit of chestnut roasty notes.
Out of the three Single Origin Teas flavored teas I’ve tried, Candied Chestnut is my favorite for my love of chestnut flavored things and mega roasty flavor.
For the curious, the orange prop is actually a Korean hand lotion! (Tonymoly brand).
(tea provided for review)
