Muscat

Received this tea with the Lupicia newsletter. Sometimes it’s nice to just throw a tea sachet in your cup and not have to worry about an infuser. I broke my habit of drinking Ceylon star first thing every morning too. Felt like something different this morning. This tea is a lot like grape candy mixed with black tea. Surprisingly though, the sweetness didn’t overpower me. I definitely enjoyed the cup, but it doesn’t quite make the cut as far as a purchase. That’s what samples are for, right?! ;)

Got this one as a sample in the newsletter. It tastes… like a Lupicia flavored tea. It has that sort of indescribable quality to it — it smells like Lupicia and it tastes like Lupicia. The grape flavoring straddles the line between real and artifical — but not like American purple grape flavored, more like the grape candies at the Japanese supermarket. And it’s good, of course, but I’m not crazy about grape, so I’ll stick with the ones I like better.

So close to decupboarding this! It has been with me for far too long, both in distance and time. I think we’re close to parting ways.

Made 16 ounces of this double strength and iced it. It’s a decent offering from Lupicia, but I prefer this cold as hot grape tea doesn’t really appeal to me.

This tasted a lot better than I had thought! When I opened the tea sachet, the scent of muscat candy was so overpowering that I almost had a headache. The muscat aroma remained artificial when brewed… fortunately, the liquor had a much more natural taste. The mild sweetness of muscat paired nicely with the smooth black tea base. A pretty nice tea :)

I associate muscat flavoring with gummi candy. Don’t know why. Wait – yes I do. I used to eat tons of Japanese candy as a kid, and their grape flavor isn’t that weird syrup nastiness found in American candy, but the muscat flavor. That must be the source of the association.

So this is very sweet. Almost cloyingly so. But the black tea tempers it well and prevents the brew from being overwhelming. Like other people have commented, sometimes it can make you think of bubblegum. Definitely has an artificial ring to it.

This tea is very sweet and fragrant—something I really like about teas in general. It really does smell like grape juice, and tastes very fruity and refreshing. I made a big potful, as the plan was to save it for iced tea. It was good hot, but a little strong; I like my hot teas to be more subtle. Diluted with ice it’s just right.

Doesn’t really need to be sweetened—I think sugar would make this TOO sweet.

I thought I would take a little break from sipdown progress and steep up a few of these poor neglected teas that I’ve yet to try! This is one that I picked up in my last order in the spring, because I enjoy Lupicia’s grape teas and I had never tried it.

When I opened the package, the scent was all grape Hi-Chew! And I happen to love Japanese grape candy, plus I was expecting it, so I was excited for it. It’s extremely similar to Jingle Bells, maybe almost exactly the same. They’re both grape-candy-flavored black teas. I think the base is slightly different, but I’d have to try them side-by-side to compare.

Anyway, it’s what I expected, so I’m happy with it! It’s obviously not a natural-tasting grape, but that’s part of the fun.

I love grapes. I ate at least 2 lbs of them this week alone and the week isn’t over lol. Yeah, yeah call me a piglet.

So, I bought every kind of grape (Muscat) Lupicia that was available, just to try before they go bye-bye. I’m watching the Tea spending discussion on the forum, I won’t dare write what I spent this month but I watch to make myself feel better for my many “momentary lapse(s) of reason” lol. (Pink Floyd)

This one came the other day (last Lupicia shipment… For real.) and all I have to say is if you don’t mind the artificial grape flavor, and you love candy grape, you’ll probably like this tea. Sometimes I don’t mind grape taffy but that’s candy. It’s like grape soda. The black tea base is nice though, carries it well. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about black tea to tell you more about it.

Right now, I prefer the Mountain Grape (Yamabudo) Oolong over this one because of that. I still have the Grape Green to try that’s waiting in my tea drawer. o.O

Picked this one up in a teabox. Minimal labeling, so I ran under the assumption that it was a pure black tea, but when steeped some of the leaves look suspiciously oolong. The scent is delightful – a rich, sweet grape that smells slightly artificial without being overbearing.

The aroma doesn’t quite carry over into the flavor – I can pick up on hints of grape, but nowhere as sweetly intense as the scent. It mellows out a bit as it cools and overall is a very mild, pleasant tea.

Sipdown – but only because I discarded the rest of the tea. I could not bring myself to brew this again. The artificial flavor just put me off. It smelled of big chew grape bubblegum. It went in the compost.

I did make a cold brew of this, but I never managed to finish it. Dropping my rating.