Pomegranate Olive Leaf from Simpson and Vail

Tea Information:

Leaf Type: Herbal

Where to Buy: Simpson & Vail

Tea Description:

Pomegranate Olive Leaf Blend from Simpson and Vail offers the perfect balance of tart and sweet meet in this all organic herbal tisane. It brews to a pink cup with a bold fruit flavor and a light herbal aftertaste. Delicious hot or iced.

Ingredients: Organic Olive leaf, organic green rooibos, organic orange peel, organic hibiscus, organic spearmint, natural pomegranate flavor, organic red cornflowers

Brew tea at 212º – steep for 5 minutes.

Certified Kosher. Caffeine Free

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Pomegranate Olive Leaf Blend from Simpson and  Vail is a blend I’ve had my eye on for some time. Simpson and Vail is one of my favorite tea shops. They are a wonderful company to buy from.  Their care and compassion for their customers shows in their website, newsletter, and  how they interact with their customers. I just love trying out their teas! They always taste fresh and crisp!

This particular blend was one I had my eye on for a while and I just had to try it. The blend is different. An Olive leaf and green rooibos blend mixed in with spearmint and pomegranate.  So just by the description alone, you can imagine a blend that totes notes of honey, sweetness, tartness, and mint. An odd combination to say the least but I have to say, one that works!

I actually cold steeped the tea in a mason jar so I could enjoy this blend as a lovely iced tea during the day and I can’t say I would try this blend any other way. The blend itself is a lovely sight that reminds me of wildflowers. The different pops of colors  amongst a green base makes me think of wildflowers in a lush green park area. Serene and vibrant. Which is a great way to describe this tea.

This tea is an unusual blend for sure but a wonderful sort of unusual. The tea has a subtle grassy like flavor mixed with a sweet honey like note and a tart minty finish. Like I said, very unusual, but one that I am digging. As a cold brew tea, this tea is refreshing, soothing, and just what the doctor ordered on such a hot muggy July summer day in the Midwest.

Pomegranate Olive Leaf from Simpson and Vail is just another wonderful example of their great fresh and crisp tasting teas I just can’t say enough about them!

 

Dark Forest from The Jasmine Pearl Tea

DarkForestTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Herbal

Where to Buy: The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company

Tea Description:

A great coffee alternative! Smooth dark and rich this blend of chicory, cacao, cinnamon and many other delicious herbs create a satisfying brew for morning or afternoon. Due to the presence of cacao nibs, which contain caffeine, don’t drink Dark Forest near bedtime.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

I have loved every tea that I have tried from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company.  Their teas are delicious and just knock your socks off sort of fantastic. This particular blend I am trying is their Dark Forest Herbal Tea. Now the description from what the tea consists of online and what I have in hand is different so I think they may have changed up the formula. The blend I have consists of chamomile, ginger, eucalyptus, lemon myrtle, and peppermint.

To begin with, I am not a huge ginger fan. I do like it on occasion but it isn’t my favorite. I know ginger is great for the body so I will drink ginger teas and even enjoy it in food every once in a while, but I do not go searching for it.

So let’s talk about the journey it was to actually drink this tea. First off, I dropped the bag and half of the contents fell out. Ugh.  I boiled the water and forgot about it. Boo. And I measured way too water for my new Doctor Who mug and I had tea all over my desk (I used a gravitea steeper).  Yep.  It seemed like this tea was doomed from the start. By the time I was able to take a drink of this tea I was ready!

The dry leaf reminded me of a sweet pumpkin spice bar.  The mixture just smelled heavenly. I prepped my water and allowed the tea to steep for about 5 minutes.  And I would recommend that being the time you allow the tea to steep if aren’t a fan of ginger like me. I have a feeling any long than that and the ginger would overtake the tea.

My first sip of this tea and I was surprised and how lovely it was.  I was afraid the ginger would overpower and leave the rest of the flavors behind but that wasn’t the case at all.  Each flavor was noticeable at different times and mingled together so nicely.  The ginger was light but there to spice the tea up, the lemon myrtle provided a bit of that citrus undertone, the chamomile was giving the tea a familiar herbal feel to it and the peppermint gave the tea a fresh flavor.  Really well done. Who would have thought those ingredients would make such a lovely herbal?

As delicious as this was, the new upgraded blend sounds just as good! I’m going  to have to try that one soon!

Another impressive tea from The Jasmine Pearl!

 

Inner Fire from Urbal tea

Inner_FireTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Herbal

Where to Buy: Urbal Tea

Tea Description:

This blend helps you burn fat and promotes weight loss by boosting your body’s ability to metabolize.

100% herbal quality ingredients: Dandelion leaf, Chickweed, Bilberry, Horsetail, Fennel, Yarrow, Eleuthero, Burdock root, Green Rooibos, Cinnamon, Rhodiola root, Dandelion root, Wuyi Wulong Oolong, Ginkgo, Yerba Mate, Green Mate, Licorice Root, Red Clover, Tulsi, Hibiscus, Blueberries, Cinnamon, Calendula flower, Corn Flower, and natural flavors.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Oh my goodness! I have been on the hunt for the perfect herbal tea forever and I may have just found it! This tea is it!

Urbal Tea is a new company to me that focuses on herbal teas to get your body healthy.  I was super excited to try Inner Fire, a tea with Yerba Mate and Green Rooibos.  I have such a thing for green rooibos yet I haven’t found a red rooibos blend that I really like yet. I couldn’t wait to steep some of this up.  This herbal smells like sweet honey apple cinnamon loving right out of the pouch!

Brewed this up with my Sei Sei Tumbler and boiling water, let it steep for about 10 minutes.  Allowed the brew to cool for a moment and took a sip.  Because the dry mixture was simply amazing, I had high hopes and wishes that this tea would translate into a marvelous flavor.  And it has!

This tea is everything you need and want out of an herbal tea.  The sweet honey like flavor from the green rooibos provides a lovely base flavor.  The cinnamon gives that spice flavor that is more is leaning more to the sweet side.  Yes, there is hibiscus in the mix but it provides a well needed contrast to all the sweetness going on in the cup.  This is one of the best herbal teas I have ever had to be perfectly honest.  The flavors are spot on and scream fall.  I would love to try this mix with an unflavored black or green tea to see if I can create a lovely fall apple cinnamon tea.  I’m excited to play around with this mix and see what I can come up with as a cold brew too.  Glad I have a big bag of this one!

But as it sits, this tea makes you long for days when you can snuggle with a book, grab your favorite sweater and blanket, and lose yourself for a few hours.  Seriously, this tea is that good!

Dream from Brew Mama Herbalism

DreamBrewMamaTea Information:

Leaf Type: Herbal

Where to Buy:  Brew Mama Herbalism 

Tea Description:

Enjoy a peaceful nights slumber with this herbal blend. Perfect to unwind, relax and prepare the organs for rest.
I hand blend your tea with only the best ORGANIC ingredients. I take great passion, love and honor with the herbs I grow and purchase.
Ingredients-Chamomile, Valerian, Passion Flower, Lavender, Mint and Catnip

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

I love my herbal teas.  I drink them all times of the day.  I actually tend to drink them more in the afternoon than I do at night.  I was so excited when I found Brew Mama Herbalism’s Etsy Store. The first blend I tried, Morning Motivator was just amazing. So I had high expectations when it comes to any blends from Brew Mama Herbalism.

I decided to go with Dream today.  It has been a crazy day at work today for some reason so I thought I nice soothing tea may just help calm my nerves a bit.  I also plan on finishing my latest book in the Aunt Dimity’s series  – Aunt Dimity and the Summer King.  These novels are cozy and charming and need a tea that fits that bill to truly enjoy the experience.

I steeped this one up like a traditional herbal-212F-4 minutes.  I started to get a bit worried when I noticed the lavender in this blend.  I’m typically not a lavender fan.  All the ingredients mingled together so well and produced a quite lovely fragrance for me to enjoy while this steeped.

Took my first sip after letting this cool for a few minutes and this tea really hit the spot.  This herbal blend is cooling and soothing with a light floral touch.  I love how very delicate this tea is.  Add in some white tea and this would be a beautiful delicate refreshing relaxing tea with a simple floral finish.   Something I am going to try later.

The ingredients really did play together well as they steeped.  The mint is probably the most noticeable flavor with the chamomile coming in close second.  Both crisp and fresh flavors.  The passion flower and lavender added in touches of floral but they didn’t overwhelm the cup at all.  Such a great herbal.  I tried this both hot and cold brewed and I feel like this tea should be brewed hot.  The cold brew brought more of the floral notes out which created an almost bite towards the end of the sip.

Just a beautiful herbal from start to finish and can definitely put you in a dream state.