Okay, so Sweet Citrus White Tea by Good Earth is a bagged tea. I know I said teabags suck before, and these are not those pyramid bags, but again, loose leaf tea is usually too much trouble to deal with when I'm at work. Despite this, it is a pretty good tea.
Actually, it doesn't have much of a tea taste. White tea has a very delicate flavor that is easily overwhelmed, and this blend contains the following in addition to organic white tea:
Organic lemongrass
Organic chamomile
Organic rose petals
Organic rosehips
Organic lemon oil
Organic flavor
Organic jasmine
Organic orange oil
With all these more powerful flavors, the white tea is entirely masked, so white tea lovers should not expect a white tea taste here.
Despite all this, it really is a good tea. It produces a very relaxing brew (thanks to the chamomile and lemongrass) full of mild flavors and enough sweetness to make it pleasant, but not so much as to make it seem artificial or gross. The smell is very citrusy, almost perfumey, but the resulting brew only has a hint of oranges--the lemongrass and chamomile are definitely the dominant flavors. Because of this, it actually tastes like a tisane, but it does say there's white tea in this, so I'll just have to trust these Good Earth guys.
I like to have this tea in the late morning and mid-afternoon when I'm at work, though I think it would go best on a lazy sunday in mid-winter, curled up on the couch with a loved one while watching a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon.
Coincidentally, I'm actually drinking some out of my Lt. Commander Data mug right now. First he reminds us of our humanity, and now I can drink tea out of him. What CAN'T that android do?
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