Tea Forte

Still wish the chocolate was more intense but the hazelnut aspect is pretty true so as far as description is concerned it’s accurate…see previous notes…

Retrying this one. Better than I remember…giving it a few more points. Aroma is more Hazelnut Truffle like than I remember it too! There seems to be more chocolate in it, too…as well as nutty-goodness! Less of the other ingredients that seemed to interrupt the overall flavor before. Perhaps they improved this one???

This smells mostly like Hazelnut. I can taste a lot of the hazelnut too! I think the coconut is more in the aftertaste and the chocolate hints are very VERY slight. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this one until after about 3 sips. It’s pretty good but would LOVE more chocolate. Pretty good tho!

I received the new Holiday Offerings from Tea Forte today and this was the first one I tried.

It smells mostly of peach which I like. Once steeped…still smells like peach. I can smell a hint of cinnamon. Taste-wise I can taste quite a bit of cinnamon, actually. I can also taste the peach. I think the cinnamon and the peach are almost equal in strength…maybe 60/40 in favor of the peach. Personally I would like more peach and less Cinnamon. I think the vanilla is lost in these two flavors but I’m not really heartbroken about that. I was taken back by my first sip thinking the spice was too much…but it grew on me a little bit as the liquid cooled a room temp for 2 or 3 minutes. This isn’t too shabby but the cinnamon is a little strong that I had hoped. Overall tho I will give it about a 75 – but not much more.

A refreshing mint tea that is perfect for my (depressed) mood right now. It smells kinda orange (instead of lemon) but I can’t really taste anything citric. Though to a mint tea lover like me, I guess that isn’t a problem at all. :)

Such a fruity currant aroma, but got nilch flavor in the taste. It tasted like a sweet black tea with such a teasing scent of currants. I was really hoping for a great currant flavor in this too!

This is the first of three samples I received that I am trying from Tea Forte.

I love Tea Forte’s packaging for their bagged teas. They are in a nylon/mesh bag, with a bendable leaf that sprouts out of the top of the bag (which allows you to hook it over your cup while steeping).

The leaves look to be a good size within the teabag, and they have room to unfurl once the water hits them. I steeped this cup in 170F water for two and a half minutes. The wet leaves have a hint of sweetness to them, but I’m not getting much else in the aroma.

Green Tango steeps up a bright marigold with a greenish tinge. Getting the slightest sweetness to the taste with a bit of hay on the aftertaste. This is a very subtle tea. The cup finished quickly, but nothing memorable in drinking this. I’m not sure if I’d purchase this tea, but I certainly wouldn’t refuse a cup from a friend.

I can’t really get past the black pepper in this…It’s like at the beginning of the sip it’s intent is to be a sweet yet spicy chai but then the idea gets thrown out the window into being all about the black pepper. It’s extremely dark in color and it’s a little artificial tasting in every other way but the black pepper. It’s weird – I can finish the cup but I can’t say as I like it much.

And…last cuppa!!

For some reason, this bag is really strong on the ginger today. I’m undecided on how I feel about this.

I have a meeting at 2:30 today that I forgot about. Best part? I’m the one conducting the meeting.

Grabbed this bag out of my work cupboard. The more I drink it, the more I like the ginger in it. Here’s hoping it helps me focus and get my stuff done!!

This isn’t in one of their pyramid bags, but in an individually-wrapped, classic tea bag. I didn’t know Tea Forte did such things, but when I saw this on sale (buy 1 get 1 free), I went for it.

Now, let me start by saying I’m not a fan of ginger. In fact, I avoid it as much as I can. It just has this horribly stinging taste to me. So when I grabbed this, I really didn’t think I’d like it (but didn’t want two boxes of Green Mango Peach tea).

This tea tastes primarily of pears, and the green, slightly-tart pears at that. Pear flavor is delicious. The ginger isn’t as strong as I had feared, but is still there and stinging my tongue a bit. Much better than what I was expecting. I can’t taste the white tea base at all for the pear flavor (it’s really very strong).

If you like both pear and ginger, this would be a perfect tea for you!

It’s a decent black tea with cinnamon flavor. It’s good, but not something that I’d invest in.

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me this tea!

I have tried this one before, please read my review of it here:
http://www.teareviewblog.com/?p=5744

Steeps up strong and has a pleasant enough flavor. Not the best English Breakfast that I’ve tried, but not the worst either.

A bit of a backlog here, as I was enjoying this tea while teaching my daughter’s art class.

This is a really good tea – it might just be my favorite from Tea Forte – I love the balance of coconut and vanilla with this tea.

Really delicious!

Am finally decupboarding this. It’s definitely nothing to gush about, and this final cup has a strange ginger taste to it. Hate to say it, but I’m kinda glad to see it go.

It’s cold, and rainy, and the perfect day to be snuggled up under a blanket watching old movies and drinking pot after pot of tea. sigh

I taste mango first, then the green tea, and the cup ends with a peach taste. Flavors are good, but I’m not sure this was the right green tea base to use. There’s a mildly bitter-peppery taste to it that, combined with the fruit flavorings, comes off as sickly sweet, like fruit that’s overripe. It’s not horribly bad (perhaps a bit much for a morning cuppa), but not something that I’ll invest in again.