Celestial Seasonings - Country Peach Passion Herbal Tea

For Celestial Seasonings, I also requested some samples. They offered to send me some coupons (three $0.50 off Celestial Seasonings) which I have received. I already used one for the sampler pack that includes this flavor.

Ingredients (from their site):

Orange peel, rosehips, hawthorn, chamomile, natural peach flavor with other natural flavors (contains soy lecithin), blackberry leaves, hibiscus, peaches, citric acid and paprika (color).

This is 100% natural, caffeine-free, and zero calories. Sounds good to me.

This tasted like a non-sweet peach when no sugar was added. So obviously, I added sugar. About two spoons of sugar this time which was just enough to make this taste more peachy. The smell of this tea bag was mostly peach and something I can't identify. There was no string for the tea bag, so a spoon had to be used. I think this tea is flavorful enough to make a second cup, but beyond that I don't think it will taste right. Nice, but kind of boring. Maybe as an iced tea (I haven't tried it as an iced tea yet), but hot peaches? Kinda odd. Not really anything special unless you are a huge fan of peaches. I do like peaches, but it doesn't taste of peach as I wanted it to be.

Overall, it's an alright tea.

Rating: 3/5

Recommend? Yes

Zhena Biodynamic Green Tea - KiwiPeach

A fruitier green tea, or so it should be. I requested samples from Zhena, they accepted and sent me a packet of 4 different teas. This tea tastes like most other green teas, the difference is probably the quality of leaves. They are much larger than the other teas I've tried and the taste is strong enough for a third cup.

Ingredients (from the back of the pack):

Organic, Fair Trade, Biodynamic Green Tea, Organic Kiwi Flavor, Organic Peach Flavor.

What a short ingredients list! No wonder they boast about how natural their teas are! Apparently, this line of tea "offers one of the smallest carbon footprints of any agricultural method." which is good if you do care for the environment. I don't find this fact very important, but others may so might as well throw it out there. So I steeped the tea bag for the 3-4 minutes recommended and was rewarded with a brilliant taste of green tea.

While I was waiting for the 4 minutes to pass, I noticed something odd. The string that is supposed to hang out of cup, but it was way too short to pass over the top of the cup, so it just flopped over and stuck to the tea bag (which was pyramid-shaped). The tea leaves, as I said before, were a good size and definitely made a difference. The smell of the tea was similar to a slightly sour peach, the tea however was not sour. A taste of this and I realized that the peach and kiwi were only part of the smell; there was not enough of it to make an impact on the taste.

Overall, this was a nice flavorful tea.

Rating: 4/5
Recommend? Yes