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Flavour: Ginger Beer

Ingredients: Rooibos, ginger, lime leaves, lemon peel, calendula petals, natural flavours

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7 for 50g

Review: An instant favourite! It smells and tastes just like it promises…but without all the sugar, fizz and calories! We couldn’t really pick up any individual ingredient – everything just blends so perfectly, with a ginger kick at the end, creating a warming, comforting drink to have in the evening – especially if you’re feeling a little warn out or run down. Tulsi started gifting this to family at Christmas, too, and everyone has fallen instantly in love with it – aa definite must-have.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn / winter

Best time of day to drink this: Evening

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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: 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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Flavour: Earthstar

Ingredients: Rooibos, cacao beans, orange pieces, lemongrass, cornflower petals, calendula petals, safflower petals, natural flavours

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £6.75 for 60g

Review: Mmmm…so refreshing! Lightly chocolatey, with the cleansing, bright flavour of citrus. A perfect balance of ingrdients, where every sip soothes and brings a smile to your face. Even just hovering over the cup and smelling it makes your day feel a little better – it’s like a completely natural Terry’s chocolate orange. Simply gorgeous and highly recommended. We’re marking this a must-have tea.

If you live anywhere near Glastonbury (or visit there regularly), you can bring in your empty glass jar and have it refilled at a discount to the full price. Alternatively, you can order online at their official website. Do recycle the old jars

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime – could perk you up in the morning, re-energise in the late afternoon, or soothe in the evening

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Flavour: Bronchial Tea

Ingredients: Primula veris flower, malva mauritania leaf, marshmallow leaf, ribwort plantain leaf, thyme, yarrow, chamomile flower

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £3.99

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: This smells really planty – especially thyme. It’s verges on soapy, probably due to the chamomile. The flavour is mainly thyme and chamomile, too, which means it’s a little sweet; but there are other flavours mixed in there. It’s designed for medicinal purposes, and it really does the trick. Tulsi had a bad cough that faded every time she drank this. It tastes better than some of the other throat teas we’ve tried, too, and it has a unique blend of ingredients that make us think the company really know what they’re doing. It’s a great night-time infusion to relax you even if you don’t have a cold. Highly recommended – a staple, even, to have on stand-by for when you feel run down.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime, but especially when it’s cold and there’s a higher chance of catching something

Best time of day to drink this: As needed, or in evenings / night-time to unwind

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Flavour: Moroccan Mint

Ingredients: Green tea (70%), spearmint (30%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £3

Bags Per Box: 15

Review: This is gorgeous! The actual green tea flavour is mild, perfectly balanced with the spearmint, which is fresh and slightly sweet. No green tea bitterness at all. It’s soothing and cleansing, wakeful and lively, and we could drink it every day. A must-have.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Gingerbread & Orange Rooibos

Ingredients: Rooibos, coriander seeds, flavouring, red pepper, pistachio, citrus peel, almond pieces

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £8 for 100g

Review: This is simply one of the best! It smells sooooo Christmassy – and it’s so exciting to see the nuts and seeds as they go into the strainer. The flavour is earthy and nutty, with a hint of spice. It’s soothing, gentle, beautiful. A little savoury due to the toasted seeds, but in perfect balance with the orange peel, making for a refreshing palate cleanser. Despite it including the dreaded ‘flavouring’, you can’t taste it at all. Best of all, it’s different from all the other blends we’ve tried. Sadly, it’s also completely off the market. Confession time: Tulsi bought this, um…ten years ago, and we only got round to drinking it now. True, it was sealed in an airtight tin all that time, but even so…the strength of the flavour after a full decade was unreal. Please, Whittard, bring this one back next Christmas! It’s a definite Must-Drink!

Best time of year to drink this: When it’s cold out – autumn / winter

Best time of day to drink this: Evenings

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Flavour: Cinnamon Spiced Cacao

Ingredients: Cacao shells (56%), cinnamon (20%), liquorice root, ginger, natural flavouring, black pepper, cloves and cardamon

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: All organic except the natural flavouring

Price Range: £5 for 15 bags

Review: The aroma is just what you’d expect – chocolatey with a hint of spice. The flavour is lovely – chocolatey, again, but not too sweet. It’s a little like Yogi Choco Chili, or Hotel Chocolat’s old Ginger & Cocoa blend (but way cheaper and…not completely off the market!). Absolutely delicious – like hot cocoa but without the calories. Soothing and warming, and you’ve finished it before you know it. A definite must have!

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Evening / bedtime

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Flavour: Baxter’s Chocolate Buns

Ingredients: Cinnamon, black tea, ginger, barley malt, currants, cocoa powder, chicory, chocolate drops (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, emulsifier: E322), natural flavouring, orange peel, cardamom, cloves, coriander, nutmeg

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: What a long ingredients list! It smells like chai, with heavy emphasis on the cardamom or cloves. The taste is more subtle, and we love it. Again, it’s like chai, but smooth and not overpowering. There’s a mellow hint of cocoa with a lovely cinnamon kick. There’s something grounding about this, and natural tasting. It’s a good one to sink into and drift off. It’s soothing and wintery, despite it being made for Easter. It reminds us a little of Hotel Chocolat’s Ginger & Cocoa blend. It’s unfortunate that neither of these seem to be on the market anymore…but maybe one day they’ll bring these back, because they are sublime!

Best time of year to drink this: Winter

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime you’d drink normal black tea

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Flavour: Nicely Spicy

Ingredients: Rooibos (60%), apple pieces, cinnamon (10%), hibiscus, flavouring, cranberry (1%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £4

Bags Per Box: 12

Review: This one smells fruity and pleasant, the way we’d expect from apple and hibiscus. it’s a bit tart and sweet, with an undercurrent of rooibos. The taste is quite nice…a bit vanilla-y from the rooibos, with a touch of tartness, perhaps helped along by that little addition of cranberry. It’s soothing and not too sweet – a good balance of ingredients that doesn’t taste artificial, despite the ‘flavouring’. It truly is ‘nicely spicy’ and we were eager to buy more. It’s a must-have.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime

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