Flirt

Downed about a liter of this yesterday while catching up on the latest episode of Critical Role. It was just nice and light, refreshing, and juicy with the perfect bubbly ripe peach flavour balanced by classic black tea. Very sippable.

Picked up a bottle of this in my last LUFA (a local grocery delivery service) order. Very juicy and refreshing with a very sun-kissed fresh peach flavour balanced by a crisp black tea base. I’ve reviewed this bad boy before, so really just logging to make sure I’m tracking the fact I’m still semi-consistently revisiting this tea this summer. Probably my fav offering from Flirt aside from maybe their Basil Lemonade – but that one isn’t a tea related drink.

I did say the last time I reviewed this that I would most likely be ordering it again, and true to my word I tacked on a bottle to my last grocery order. It was very, very good – just as fresh and juicy as I wrote about in my last review! Only downside is that the bottle it comes in is VERY large – closer to a 2L soda bottle than, like, a normal RTD. So, it’s a lot to go through in one shot…

Because of that I’ll probably take a break before I order again just so I don’t get sick of the flavour – but I’m sure I’ll still order it another time or two later this summer.

This is the other new sparkling iced tea that I picked up in my last local grocery haul.

Honestly, it way exceeded my expectations. Similar to the other flavour from Flirt, this had a really great balance between the notes of peach and the black tea base. The peach tasted like fresh peach juice with both a bright and tangy element but also a sweetness to round it out. Not artificial at all, and such a playful and dynamic note with the effervescence. The black tea, like I said in my Lime & Lemon review, strikes a nice balance between something like a Brisk/Nestea and a higher end specialty loose leaf black.

It just tasted like exactly what you want on a hot summer afternoon. Really refreshing, well balanced acidity and sweetness, and just authentic on every level. I will definitely be buying this one again – having that no step sparkling iced tea is so convenient. It might actually replace the sparking Blackberry Lemonade (non tea related) that I often get from Flirt…

So, Flirt is a local(ish) company that specializes in sparkling juice drinks and natural sodas. They’re a partner with the grocery delivery service I do weekly for local produce, prepped meals, baked goods and such – usually I get their Root Beer or their blackberry lemonade. However, last time I ordered I saw that they’d added two sparkling iced teas to their menu so I got those instead!!

I can’t decide if I liked this one or not. Honestly, there were a lot of things in the pros column. For starters, it taste distinctly of both lemon and lime and neither are particularly artificial or cloying or too tart/sour. Just nice and bright/lively. The lime is actually a little stronger than the lemon, which is refreshingly different too. They use black tea as the tea base, and you can actually taste the tea quite clearly and it’s not half bad either. Somewhere between being a Brisk or Nestea level of black tea and, like, a more specialty loose leaf tea that you might use if you were making Southern Sweet Tea by hand and wanted to avoid instant mixes/teabags.

Really the only con here was the aftertaste. Something about almost tasted like spearmint to me!? Flirt has a Mojito Lemonade that has a similar note in it, and I just kept thinking of that tea. It’s not that I disliked the mint note, but it was so out of place feeling that I ended up being a huge distraction from what I think could have otherwise been such a strong drink.