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Flavour: Dark Moon

Ingredients: Black tea, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, white pepper, jasmine petals, rose petals, lavender petals, clove, nutmeg

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £6.75 for 60g

Review: Our first review for this shop, which Tulsi found on her last visit to Glastonbury. Her husband left her for an hour (it was very clear she would be a while) and she literally sat on the shop floor, surrounded by approximately 90 varieties of tea, sniffing each one of the tester jars until she went nose blind, trying to narrow down her selections for purchase to something reasonable. (She bought seven.)

This one has a gorgeously earthy, spicy smell. The flavour of the black tea is mild and not too bitter. Although there are a lot of flowers in the blend, it’s not distinctly floral. They got the balance just right, making an infusion that doesn’t taste of any one thing. It’s well-rounded and robust, dark and wintery. It’s so soothing that we have to stop ourselves from drinking it in the evenings – it’s easy to forget the caffeine. It’s also pretty to look at in the jar, too! Highly recommended. And if you happen to 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: Autumn / winter

Best time of day to drink this: Morning / afternoon

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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: Spellbound Cider

Ingredients: Ginger, apple, white hibiscus, pineapple bits (pineapple, sugar), roasted chicory, natural and artificial flavouring, cinnamon, orange peel, sweet blackberry leaves, allspice, black pepper

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: The smell is bleeeeech! It’s so stringent – a horrid orange with an artificial something, and some pineapple sweetness. And it tastes as good as it smells. You do get used to it, but that flavouring ruins everything and leaves an oily feeling in your mouth. Fighting to be tasted is a trace of cinnamon and apple with a slight kick from the black pepper. It’s very sweet (sugar), there’s a hint of tropical fruit…and then it’s just yuck all the way. It could be really interesting, maybe even nice, if not for that artificial flavouring. It’s not an ‘avoid’ exactly, but we definitely won’t be buying it. It had potential and they just spoiled it with chemicals. Not for us, thanks!

Best time of year to drink this: Um…really, no idea. Autumn, probably.

Best time of day to drink this: Evening?

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Flavour: Christmas Tea

Ingredients: Rooibos, cinnamon (13%), liquorice, coriander, honeybush (6%), orange peel, cloves, black pepper, anise, dried lemon juice, star anise (3%), cardamom, roasted chicory, lime, orange oil, cinnamon oil

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is gorgeous. We wish we could find it all year round! It smells like herbal chai, but milder, and with a slight fruity sweetness from the orange. The flavour is soothing and warming. It’s lightly sweet but with a warm spicy after-kicky-thing…and some refreshing orange. It’s a perfect, well-balanced blend that we would have every day, if we could. We hope it comes back next winter!

Best time of year to drink this: All year round (but obviously it’s marketed for the winter)

Best time of day to drink this: Evenings – perfect for unwinding after a long day

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Flavour: Fresh Inspiration (formerly Pure Freshness)

Ingredients: Spearmint, peppermint, ginger, anise, cinnamon, lime, black pepper, cardamom, lemongrass, fennel, cocoa shells, liquorice, peppermint oil, dried lemon juice, cloves, spearmint oil, ginger oil

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: It quite literally smells like toothpaste. The flavour is initially very startling (no one expects to drink toothpaste!)…but then it gets better. It’s just so minty fresh…then bitter…then spicy (the black pepper KICKS at the back of the throat)…with a lingering feeling of coolness. It’s a highly confusing drinking experience. It’s definitely wakeful, and it would clear your breath after a meal out. The oils are just so strong that we wouldn’t personally drink this casually.

Best time of year to drink this: Whenever

Best time of day to drink this: After a meal

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Flavour: Sun Salutation

Ingredients: Cinnamon (26%), roasted chicory (21%), cardamom (16%), barley malt, orange peel (8%), liquorice, black pepper, orange oil, lime

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This was an instant favourite. We’ve had a hard time finding it in physical shops, so the last time Tulsi visited Glastonbury (where she first found this one), she bought 6 boxes. You can easily order it online, as well.

It tastes just like it smells – smooth, warming and wakeful. Although the aroma is largely chicory with a hint of orange, you can’t pull out any one ingredient on its own, when you taste it. They’re perfectly balanced to create a drink that’s lightly spicy, richly earthy, and not too sweet. It’s refreshing but somehow hits the same spot as coffee, likely due to the chicory and barley malt. It’s a great one for the morning, or after meals, or in the evening when you want to wind down. We could drink this all day and never get tired of it – one of the best in Yogi’s whole range.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime

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Flavour: Cape Malay Chai

Ingredients: Organically grown rooibos tea (60%), cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, chicory, cloves, black pepper and cassia oil

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Rooibos (see above)

Price Range: £2

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: Dragonfly are on a roll!

This is a caffeine-free alternative to your traditional black chai. Using rooibos as a base, the aroma is spicy but slightly fruity – citrusy, even. Tasting it, most chai is very strong (especially the cloves), but this blend is light and mellow. We brewed it for 30 minutes and it was still delicately balanced, with no one spice overtaking the flavour. You can feel the cloves, but it’s subtle.

Overall, this is a pleasant, warming blend to drink at any time of day, but it’s especially recommended for evenings. We can imagine it helping you de-stress after a long day at work, for instance, preparing you for a good night’s sleep. While we like some traditional chai, this decaf alternative is a much-welcomed addition to the market.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, especially evenings

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Flavour: Choco

Ingredients: Cocoa shells (65%), liquorice, cinnamon, carob, barley malt, cardamom, ginger, cloves, cinnamon extract (natural flavour), vanilla extract (natural flavour), black pepper, ginger oil, vanilla beans

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is very similar to their Choco Chili blend, but without the chili. It smells of chocolate and spice. It’s subtle but warming and very wintry. Tasting it, it’s not as chocolatey as you’d expect. Despite 65% cocoa shells, the flavour is more like sticky gingerbread cake – probably due to all the spice, and the liquorice adding that hint of sweetness. This is one blend where they got the liquorice balance just right.

It’s a delicious after-meal treat that we highly recommend.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn / winter, when you need a bit of inner warming

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon / evening, after food

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Flavour: Vanilla Chai

Ingredients: Black tea (65%), liquorice, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, natural flavouring, pepper, vanilla (1%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £2.20

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: It smells HORRID, like too-sweet super-fake flavouring…and then black tea.

Thankfully, it tastes better than it smells. It’s your basic spiced black tea blend, but with that aftertaste all tea flavouring has. It’s a bit sweet and might be better taken with milk. It might appeal to some black tea drinkers who use a LOT of sugar and are looking to cut back on calories. We greatly prefer more natural, less sweet variations on this blend, though.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: After lunch or dinner, as a substitute dessert

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Flavour: Turmeric Chai

Ingredients: Turmeric root (55%), cinnamon (14%), liquorice, ginger (7%), cardamom (3%), black pepper, apple, fennel, mace, cocoa shells, cloves

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: Another turmeric blend, but we aren’t fans of this one.

The ingredients list is a little bizarre. When you hit ‘cocoa shells’ near the end, your eyebrows go up automatically.

Although 55% is turmeric, you can’t smell it much over the spices. That set flavour expectations. Disappointingly, it didn’t taste much of spice. The liquorice overpowers just about everything. Then, long after we’ve drunk it, there’s a lingering turmeric aftertaste. That’s it – no cardamom or pepper or apple, and certainly no coca flavour! We’re not sure why Yogi thought this needed sweetness. It would be so much nicer without it. Some might like it, but we don’t see the point. It’s like turmeric chai for people who don’t like turmeric or chai.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: After dinner, if it’s your thing

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