Decaf Muscat

I got to try this iced. Mmm… grapes. There is a nice, fruity scent. The flavour is sweet, and certainly tastes like muscat. Somehow a lot of their fruit flavoured teas end up tasting like Japanese candies I like. This one reminds me of a certain gummy candy.

Liked it, but I prefer the oolong.

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Thank you jump62359 for sending some of this my way! It is a pleasant enough cup. Smells amazing and definitely captures a juicy muscat flavor. However, at the end of the day, I am just not a huge grape person so I don’t particularly need this in my cupboard. Though, I am definitely grateful to have tried something new and am really enjoying this cup!

Thanks to Tea Brat for this one. I’ve been trying to find decaf options for evening so I was happy to see this in my swap. It smells like candy! To me it smells exactly like pixie stix the powder in the waxy straws.I steeped it for 3.5 minutes. Dark amber liquor still smells really sweet and still like a pixie stix. I’m not much of a flavored tea person but this was surprisingly good. I thought the grapey taste would be overpowering but it wasn’t. Its sweetish and nice.

This is pretty freaking awesome! I’m totally digging this tea. I feel like I’ve already taken too much from the TTB but I’m not sure I can let this one go. I didn’t know what to expect but it certainly wasn’t this. Artificial grape flavoring literally makes me sick. When we moved out of my childhood home, my mother found all my stashes of the children’s grape Tylenol she had given me when I was sick that I simply wouldn’t take because I couldn’t stand the flavor. Now, I’m a big wine person and my husband is a sommelier so we know our way around some grapes. This tea doesn’t taste like artificial grape flavoring (disclaimer- I dunno if it is or not.) It tastes like actual grapes. And I am one happy girl. YUM!

Decaf tea…. a blasphemous term. It is harder to find a good decaf tea than it is to light a fire with a snail. Having been recently told by a doctor to cut down on the blessed caffeine, I’ve had no choice but to explore decaf teas. This tea was a bright surprise in the sea of powdery blandness that can be decaf black teas. The muscat grape flavor isn’t sweet, but adds a rather pleasant extra dimension with the fruitiness and the astringent taste. Not a bad astringent….just like the skins of grapes…which balances the “meh” of decaf really well. If you’re doomed to decaf, try this tea. It will give you a welcome alternative to the “usual”.