Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Mountain Witch Tea Company
Tea Description:
This unusual tea blend combines the sweet flavor of blood orange with black tea, roses, a dash of sweet vanilla and other delicious fruit flavors. It’s a real taste delight similar to an orange creamsicle. It is made with our best black tea, orange peel, rose hips, rose petals, safflowers, natural & artificial flavors.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
When I was a kid, I loved orange creamsicles. I asked my mom for them all of the time. Those and those Fred Flinstone “Push-Ups”. My whole family loved them. We made a huge mess with them. They always seemed to melt before we were able to finish them. I remember one night my dad almost taking down an entire box himself. This tea tastes just like one of those!!
I have had several teas in the past that say they taste like an orange creamsicle but those always seemed to fall short. Usually the black tea base was always stronger than it should be or the orange flavoring tasted fake. So when I was on Steepster and checking out everybody’s reviews I noticed a new company I had never heard of. Mountain Tea Witch Company. I checked them out and they had several different flavored blacks, greens, whites, and herbals. I was excited about the different ones that they offered. Blueberry Pancake, Bavarian Vanilla Cream, and Blood Orange Tea just to name a few. There were so many to choose from.
First sip, I was expecting that artificial orange taste to hit me, but that wasn’t the case at all. This tasted like a real orange with a creamy vanilla side. I am even having trouble typing up this review because I keep stopping to drink more. This may very well be the best orange tea I have ever had. The vanilla is so perfectly done. It provides that natural sweetness and soft creaminess that blends so very well with the blood orange. All of the flavors taste very fresh and not artificial at all. There is a black tea base but its hardly noticeable. I am even drinking this iced and usually you instantly taste the black tea. Not so here. Just a very well balanced tea. I am extremely pleased with this offering and am looking forward to checking out the rest of the teas they have to offer. Well done!
Blood Orange from Mahamosa
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Mahamosa
Tea Description:
This mild China-Ceylon black tea blend evokes the Caribbean. Comprised of light-yellow orange peels and orange-red blazing safflowers, this tea creation has a sweet, firm, fresh and tangy flavor. A sip of this tea will bring to mind the fervent red flesh of sun-ripened blood oranges.
Ingredients: Black tea, orange peel, natural flavoring, safflower.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
When sipping on Blood Orange from Mahamosa the first thing that comes to mind is POW! Mind blowing orange flavor! If you love the taste of natural orange this is your tea!
Blood oranges tend to be a bit more tart than your average orange with more antioxidants. I used blood orange often in my natural perfume blends and it is a favorite of mine so I was excited to see this on Mahamosa’s website.
The base tea makes way for the orange to take front and center yet there is some interesting taste on the end part of the sip that is distinctly the base tea. It is quite enjoyable but I am thinking this is one that must be cold steeped and enjoyed over ice!
One thing that I personally love about Mahamosa is that they contribute 50% of their annual net profits after taxes to support charitable causes including hunger, poverty, education, environment, clean water, animal/natural life welfare and other causes. You can learn more about their contributions here.
So no, this is not the most complex tea I have ever had the pleasure to sip on, but then again it is absolutely what it states that it is, a blood orange black tea made with natural flavors. The use of natural flavors does make this tea better than many flavored teas I have tried as I am very particular about flavorings used in tea.
As the tea cools a little the blood orange allows some of its sweetness to present and while there are no sweeteners used in this blend I do get a slight sweet note in the tea after cooling which, once again, makes me eager to do a cold steep with this leaf.
This is my first experience with Mahamosa Tea and I am eager to try more based on this experience.
