Raspberry Zinger

This is another wedding party favor. I poured boiling water over the teabag and left it in.

It was pretty good hot, but I liked it better once it cooled off, and I added ice.

This is a real fruit punch of an herbal. The hibiscus stands out nicely and balances well with the raspberry. Sweet and sour. If you don’t like hibiscus, this probably isn’t your cup of tisane. Oh, I wonder how well it would do, steeped in a lemonade. Mmm.

It tastes kind of like hanging out at a nude beach when there’s no pandemic going on, very relaxing.

I bought this in a Fruit Sample. Lovely raspberry flavor with tart hibiscus. Easy to find and popluar with most. L, S, & R love it.

First tasting: My first instinct is to describe this as I would a wine – a strong, dry raspberry where the tartness almost hits more on the way down than on the tongue. The berry part of the flavor is good, but there’s something about it overall that definitely showcases as being a fairly simple grocery store tea as if there was an option for flavor complexity that was left out.
Due to the dryness, this tea made me somewhat thirstier than before I started drinking it although it works well as a non-caffeinated breakfast tea with something like oatmeal.

May Flowers! This is the final of the four fruit teas I’m revisiting from the Celestial Seasonings fruit tea sampler! And since I had enough teabags of this one to make it iced (and that’s how I tend to prefer my hibi-hips teas anyway) this one was hot steeped and then chilled so it was icy cool!

Hmm… I may have to take back what I said about the True Blueberry being my favorite of the bunch (though it may be an unfair advantage, since I did get to prepare this one iced instead of warm). But I do think of the Celestial Seasonings fruit tea sampler set, this one works the best for me. The flavor is, once again, quite strong, but I think of all the flavors the raspberry blends the best with the tangy fruit notes of the hibiscus base. And since they blend so well together, the raspberry feels a bit more natural and juicy. It’s also easily the least obnoxiously sweet of the teas to me; there is a touch of berry sweetness there, but the tart and tangy notes are more dominant, and feel more natural of ripe raspberries to me. So of the four fruit teas, I think this one blends the hibi-hip base and flavoring the best, and tastes the least artificial of the bunch. It’s probably tangy enough that some folks may have to sweeten this one, which I would not say for any of the others in the sampler set.

An excellent afternoon tea if you like dull flavored Raspberry then this one is for you. Although I have come to recently discover, it goes wonderful with anything chocolate: bars, cake, muffins what ever chocolate takes your fancy goes well with this.

I guess it has sort of grown on me.

This fruit infusion was ok, nothing special but had a good raspberry flavour in it.

Backlogged from yesterday.
I drank this in the afternoon, and felt no particular love for it. The hibiscus is strong in this one, though it did make a pretty color in my cup!
Sipdown!

It’s a bit hard to drink with food, it’s probably better on it’s own but I still liked it!

Not as flavorful as Harneys but better than Tea Republic. I definitely tasted the raspberry both hot and cold ( added a bit of Splenda).

Would drink it again in a pinch for sure.

Juicy berries! Yummy Yummy!

I hot brewed this one with two tea bags for 5 minutes with 450 mL of water added plenty of sugar then iced it down with a tray of ice.

It’s so easy to make!

Refreshment Rating 10/10