Thank goodness I finally located the bag in which easy-to-prepare nighttime infusions were stowed during my chaotic and stressful move of last month! I’ve been coveting Tazo Rest for a while, so I brewed some up to remind myself why and because I could use another good night’s rest!
It’s funny that one reviewer complains that this tisane tastes like perfume. It does! But that is precisely why I like it! It’s a completely unique sweet rose perfume with a thicker texture—presumably imparted by the licorice root and the lemon balm—but there are so many yummy floral flavors here as well, including both geranium and lavender, along with the major floral note of rose.
This is one of the few Tazo filterbags in the new light envelopes which I am definitely going to miss. I assume that Starbucks is phasing out the whole line because they now call the brewed iced teas in the store Teavana iced teas, even though we all know that they are still Passion, Zen, and Awake. Alas, something went horribly awry with the management, it seems. To be honest, I even suspect a conspiracy.
First the formulas of the filter bags were changed so that everyone who had grown to love the original Tazo became disgruntled. Then they introduced the new sachet format, which was much better but too expensive for most filter bag customers. Now it appears that the surviving Tazo products will be rebranded as Teavana. I checked online, and most of the loose teas are no longer even available at the Starbucks site. (Thank goodness I had the foresight to order two bags of Golden Monkey before it was terminated—with extreme prejudice!)
How in the world could the aggressive, obnoxious Teavana sales team and the artificially flavored, overly sweetened and grossly overpriced blends being pushed by them—in stores where it’s not even possible to sit down!—have prevailed in the Tazo vs. Teavana duel, if not because Tazo was infiltrated by spies from the enemy side? I ask most sincerely.
Flavors: Flowers
