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Flavour: Earl Grey Crème

Ingredients: Ceylon black tea, vanilla pieces, blue cornflowers, natural flavouring

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7 for 50g

Review: It smells like tea – not really sure what else to say. It pretty much tastes of black tea, too. There’s not enough Earl Grey-ness, and the vanilla and cornflowers don’t really add anything, so…we don’t see why you’d bother with this one over other Earl Grey blends on the market. Nothing bad, just…we like Bird & Blend’s other flavours so much more.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning and afternoon

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Flavour: Blue Raspberry

Ingredients: Chinese sencha green tea, blue pea flowers, freeze-dried raspberry pieces, natural flavouring

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7 for 50g

Review: The smell is strong on the raspberry – tart, sweet and delicious – and the blue pea flowers make the water so blue! Sadly, the flavour was a little weak, no matter how long we brewed it. You can’t really taste that raspberry, just a general tartness. It’s like a very mild green tea, not bitter at all…but also not exciting.

Best time of year to drink this: Maybe summer

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Exceptionally Ordinary

Ingredients: Orange, hibiscus, rooibos, peppermint leaves, liquorice, lemon balm, lavender, passion flowers, milk thistle, marigold flowers

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.99 for 50g

Review: Ooh interesting, having more orange and hibiscus than rooibos. It’s quite a medley of ingredients you usually see in different blends. Sadly…maybe there’s a reason they aren’t usually mixed together, because the flavour is mild hibiscus and hot water, with a slightly minty aftertaste. It’s like one of those ‘a touch of fruit’ water drinks but boiled. One of those rare teas that lives up to its name, it truly is ‘exceptionally ordinary’.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime?

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime?

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Flavour: Rosy Fig Flavour White Tea

Ingredients: White tea, rose petals (5%), fig, rose and almond flavourings (0.5%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: Around £10 for 40g

Review: As you’d hope, it smells rosy and figgy! The flavour is delicious. It’s a smooth white tea with no bitterness and a light rosiness that manages not to taste of perfume. It’s so figgy, too, blending perfectly with the rose petals without being overpowering. Keep in mind that Tulsi doesn’t even like figs – but this is so gentle and delicious. It’s really special – a definite must-have!

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Brunch / afternoon

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Flavour: Nutty Chocolate Flavour Assam Tea

Ingredients: Black tea, cocoa nibs (20%), hazelnut flavouring (8%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: Around £2-3

Bags Per Box: 12

Review: It smells like…tea and hazelnut flavouring – really sweet. The taste was surprising. We expected an overwhelming hazelnut flavour, but it’s more like gentle black tea with a subtle sweetness. It doesn’t taste artificial. In fact, it gets nicer with each sip and makes a very pleasant brunch treat.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Brunch / afternoon

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Flavour: Dragon’s Breath

Ingredients: To be confirmed

Caffeine Factor: To be confirmed

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.99 for 50g

Review: A bit of an odd one because we were given this as a free sample but there were no further details on the packaging and it was never listed on their online sales page. There seems to be no record of it on the Internet, but we’re reviewing it anyway! It smells a bit medicinal and like Red Hots sweets…so it might contain the American variety of cinnamon. We also suspect it might have kola nuts. It tastes like Red Hots, too, but subtler than expected. It didn’t excite us, but we also didn’t dislike it. It probably doesn’t matter because you can’t actually buy it! But it wasn’t our favourite.

Best time of year to drink this: Ummm…you can’t buy it, anyway, so….

Best time of day to drink this: It was probably intended for the morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Gamekeeper’s Hut

Ingredients: Assam melody tea, keemun concerto tea, yunnan jig tea, ceylon sonata tea

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.99 for 50g

Review: So, as you can see…this is a medley of teas mixed together. The aroma is fragrant, earthy and smoky, and it tastes earthy, too – well-rounded, rich and malty. It packs in so much more flavour than your ‘standard’ black tea. We loved it and would happily drink more.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning / afternoon

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Flavour: Glass Slipper

Ingredients: Black tea, orange, blue cornflower petals, natural vanilla flavour, natural bergamot flavour, natural crème flavour

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.99 for 50g

Review: Smells like tea, tastes like tea. From their Fairytale collection, this is a light, mellow blend. It’s basically black tea but with a creamy texture and a faint citrus edge, making it less bitter than your average tea. The vanilla makes it slightly sweet, which is good if you’re the type to add sugar to your tea but you want to cut back. It isn’t the most exciting blend we’ve ever tried, but it was nice enough.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning / afternoon

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Flavour: Shepherd’s Cup

Ingredients: Ironwort (sideritis scardica)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £8 for 30g

Review: The tin promises ‘hints of thyme, citrus and anise’. We struggled to find all of this. It smells like savoury seasoning – oregano or sage. It tastes like sage, too, but manages to avoid tasting like pasta. It’s closest to thyme, maybe, but milder and not as sweet. Best of all, the tin is full of clumps of the plant, like it was just harvested with no processing. Unfortunately, we can’t find it anywhere online anymore, so we’re not sure where you get it. Even the company’s website seems to have deleted it, which is a shame because we enjoyed this one. It was cleansing and refreshing. Time to grow our own ironwort!

Best time of year to drink this: It feels like a spring or summer drink

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, but probably especially after meals

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Flavour: Royal Moroccan Mint

Ingredients: Green tea with a blend of wild mints

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £8.50 for 50g

Review: This is, quite simply, one of the best teas we have ever tried, and the best green tea we’ve had. It supposedly only includes a blend of green tea and various mint leaves. However, the aroma is like rose petals, even just when you smell it in the bag. It’s sweet and fragrant, like very expensive face cream. Thankfully, the flavour is not too floral, only lightly rosy, and almost chocolatey – perhaps chocolate mint is one of the varieties included here. It’s nothing like your standard Moroccan mint. There is zero bitterness. It has a smooth, creamy texture and it’s simply delicious. We could drink it all day, all year round – though it’s probably best had in the first half of the day, due to the caffeine content. Even just the experience of it – sitting with the cup, smelling it, is like being in a spa with aromatherapy. This is hands down a must-have tea for all, and a strong contender for our favourite tea of all time.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon – but if we could, we’d even drink this in our sleep

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