Twinings

Love this tea! Robust, flavorful, and really warms you from the inside.

hmm, this made an interesting coldbrew. Grassy, vegetal, lightly nutty notes with some seaweed. It tastes like a typical sencha. This is the type of green tea I don’t care for, but I’m working on finishing up the last few teabags I have. It did taste very fresh and high quality. Even the lingering astringency was a little bit pleasant.

Enjoyable but can have weird bitter green tea undertones if you over steep. Try this one iced.

This tea was even better than I expected. The lemon was delicious, but the cake flavour was unbelievable. Very creamy, buttery. It was very distinctly cake. It actually reminded me a lot of a lemon pound cake. The icing sugar, cake, butter, cream, and lemon are an amazing combo.

I really like this tea for its potent (but malty) black base. The rose is very present, floral, and quite delicious. This brews up really fast. 1.5 minutes was actually a bit too much for me, so I added soy milk. It was already lightly sweet with a very thick mouthfeel, so the creaminess of the milk was perfect.

A decent tea, but I would have liked a stronger bergamot flavor to be present. The tea feels somewhat light and almost lemony, when I would have preferred a darker take on it.

I love love love this herbal. Perfect balance of mint and vanilla and needs no sweetener. Just a very pleasant cup. Recommended.

This is a very inoffensive Oolong, and a very light one at that (the box even shows it to be not very strong by Twinings standards, showing two leaves). I can see how some people would find it offputting as the flavor leans green. I like my tea strong so after the first cup I used two bags, but it didn’t seem to make all that much difference. I’d give this an average score.

I’ve never been a huge fan of straight black teas, but as a St. Patrick’s Day baby I felt inclined to give an Irish Breakfast blend a go. My coworker is a big fan of English and Irish Breakfast teas and donated a bag of this Twinings of London bagged tea so I could review it on my blog. I’m not particularly a fan of bagged tea, either, but she claimed it was a “better brand” and I wasn’t going to turn down some free tea.

The scent of this tea brought back so much childhood nostalgia… I was instantly transported back to my grandmother’s house! It occured to me, that growing up as a small child, I associated a single scent as the “smell of tea,” much like one might associate a single scent with the smell of coffee, and that “tea smell” always made me think of my grandma’s house. Of course, now that I’m grown and have become an avid tea drinker, I know that each tea has a very unique aroma, but now I know… my grandma must have been drinking an Irish or English Breakfast blend!

As far as the taste, it wasn’t as bad as I remember. Usually straight blacks just come off too harsh for me so I prefer flavored blends with some sort of desserty or spicy or fruity taste, but trying it “English style” with a bit of milk and sugar, I actually found it quite pleasant! Perhaps my palate has just changed over the years, or maybe I just needed to take it English style to balance the astringencies.

I’m sure I would enjoy a looseleaf variety more, but as far as bagged tea goes, I was pleasantly surprised!

Full review: https://teatimetuesdayreviews.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/tea11/

Nice flavor, little weak( may have overwatered), but all in all not a bad wind down tea.

I wanted to like this more than I do. It has a slight aftertaste, not sure what the taste is, might be the citrus, but it tastes a bit artificial.

Mmm, this is very spiced I must say. First thing I taste is the cinnamon. Then I get the apple flvaour and the other spices. I got a teabag of this with a small gift from my church. It’s a nice wintery tea.

This is the spiciest ginger tea I’ve ever had, and I absolutely love it. This would be a nice tea to keep around for when you are sick. It also does well cold (I imagine iced with honey or agave would be excellent) or with milk. Really, I find ginger very comforting (even when it is burning my throat).