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: 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: Cocoa Brownie

Ingredients: Lemongrass, lemonbalm, nettle, cacao peels, cacao nips, basil, valerian, St John’s wort, lavender, star anise, passionflower herb, natural flavouring, hop petals

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: All organic except the natural flavouring

Price Range: £9.99 for 50g

Review: Such an unusual idea – chocolate infused with lemon to make a sleepytime time! With a name like Cocoa Brownie, we expected it to smell strongly of chocolate; but it’s largely lemon. That said, it’s not as strong as some of the other lemon blends we’ve tried, which usually bring to mind cleaning products. The flavour is complex, even confusing. It’s lemony but mild, with a belated cocoa taste. It doesn’t really taste of brownie, but it’s soothing and unusual – and we like unusual. It’s even a little malty at the end, which reminded us both of drinking Ovaltine as children. All in all, it’s a lovely blend to sooth you off to sleep at the end of a long day. Just don’t expect it to be very chocolatey.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Evening / bedtime

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Flavour: Amalfi Lavender Limoncello

Ingredients: Green tea, apple, sweet blackberry leaves, beetroot, lavender, lemongrass, silver lime flowers, natural flavouring, lemon peel, marigold flower petals

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: See website for subscription options

Bags Per Box: See website for subscription options

Review: This smells really lemony! Just like sherbet. It tastes like it too – it’s that fake lemon flavour you always get from lemongrass…and absolutely nothing else. Beetroot? Where!? We dare anyone to tell us they can identify that when drinking this blend. It’s just cleaning product. It’s a fancy ingredients list in fancy packaging with a completely un-fancy taste for a high price tag. It’s an AVOID.

Best time of year to drink this: Never!

Best time of day to drink this: Never

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Flavour: English Garden Tea

Ingredients: Chamomile, lemon verbena, rose petals, nettle, blue cornflowers, lavender

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-Free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £9.95

Bags Per Box: 15

Our Review: On paper, this shouldn’t be something we like…but we love it!

It smells just like an English garden – fresh, flowery and bound to make you smile. However, that lovely aroma made us worried about the taste, because normally floral blends are like drinking perfume – it’s just too much. But this isn’t like that. The balance of ingredients is just right: instead of perfume, it’s soothing and relaxing, particularly perfect for winding down in the evening and preparing for bed.

We like it so much that it’s gone straight onto our Must-Have Teas list – but it’s expensive, so we thought we’d compare it to two other similarly floral blends we’ve reviewed before:

T2 Gone Surfing – this has several ingredients in common with Liberty’s blend (lavender, chamomile, rose petals, and lemonbalm as a substitute for lemon verbena). The main difference is that T2’s blend includes spearmint, which makes it refreshing and wakeful, whereas Liberty gives us a cup of pure wind-down tea.

Pukka Love – Again, this includes chamomile, lavender and rose petals, as well as elderflower, marigold and limeflower. We loved this one when we tried it, but both T2 and Liberty take this blend and crank it up a few notches to make something even more special.

In conclusion, Liberty and T2 both give us a moment of magic in a cup, with Liberty carrying a much higher price tag. Even so, it’s definitely worth the money, as a once-in-a-while treat.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, especially evenings when you want to relax

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Flavour: Sleep Tight

Ingredients: Floral, lavender, mint, lemon

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: What the heck is ‘floral’? That’s not an ingredient! What are they trying to pull?

Anyway. The smell is very soothing and mellow, likely from the lavender. Looking into the cup, the water is a lovely golden colour that makes you want to drink it.

The taste is much softer and more pleasant than some night-time blends. The ‘floral’ is not too intense, thankfully. You can’t specifically taste the mint or lemon, but we expect they’re but tempering the lavender so you don’t feel like a garden exploded in your mouth.

We like this one. It’s so relaxing, and every sip just makes you want more. Definitely worth the money! And remember, you can re-brew to make that box last a few months. Just be sure not to let the drink go gold. THEN it tastes soapy – bleh!

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Evening / bedtime

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Flavour: Sweet Dreams

Ingredients: Chamomile, silver lime flower, apple, blackberry leaves, chicory root, rose petals, lavender, rosemary, pink cornflower, flavour

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: The aroma of this blend is one of chamomile and flowers. It’s soothing and pretty, though a little like being punched in the face with potpourri.

But don’t mistake this tea as light and delicate: tastes much heavier than it smells. It’s warming and substantial, almost like you’re eating something rather than having a drink. We can’t imagine having this at bedtime – it fills you up like a pudding after a big meal!

Ginger Tea liked it, but Three Tulsi found it a bit soap and sweet, so it all depends on your taste. Just remember that, if you take the plunge and buy a box, you’ll probably be re-brewing to make it last months – so you really have to like the flavour. We recommend you taste-test it in the shop, first.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: After a meal, maybe dinner

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Flavour: Nighty Night

Ingredients: Lemonbalm, peppermint leaf, strawberry leaves, blackberry leaves, St John’s Wort, chamomile, heather flower, red rose petals, lavender

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: The smell is strongly floral and ‘planty’, like grass and perfume in one. The taste is sort of similar – bitter, but with a soapy aftertaste (presumably from the lavender).

Three Tulsi really didn’t like this one, while Ginger Tea thought it was okay – but with the proviso that it’s not much different from standard off-the-shelf night-time teas you can buy at a fraction of the cost.

All in all, this is an ‘I’ll drink it if it’s there’ tea, but not something you would go out of your way to brew.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Bedtime

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Flavour: Love

Description: Organic rose, chamomile & lavender flower tea to warm your heart

Ingredients: Chamomile flower (25%), limeflower, elderflower, marigold petals, liquorice root, rose flower (5%), lavender flower (5%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Our Review: This one is truly beautiful.  The aroma is subtle but pleasantly floral; the scent of chamomile and lavender steaming out of the cup is instantly relaxing.

Drinking it is just as soothing.  The combination of flavours is ever-so-slightly sweet, which cuts the chamomile taste.  The overall effect is a soft, gentle drink that (as the box promises) warms you from the inside out.

This is a great night-time tea, if you’re not fond of the traditional chamomile and valerian root blends.  We managed to drink several boxes; we couldn’t get enough.  For that reason, we’re rating this a must-have tea for your kitchen cupboard.  Just be sure to have it hot, so the taste of the liquorice doesn’t overpower the rest of the drink.

Best time of year to drink this: All year round.

Best time of day to drink this: Evenings and night-time, to soothe and relax you before bed.

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Flavour: Bright Night

Ingredients: Peppermint, spearmint, lavender, rose petals

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: As the name suggests, this is a night-time tea, designed to soothe the stomach and relax you before bed.  It smells strongly of lemon myrtle, and it even tastes like it – but there’s no lemon flavour in the ingredients list!  Perhaps it’s the way the mints combine with lavender?

Whatever the cause, there’s no denying that artificial lemon taste, which keeps us from liking it.  The spearmint definitely refreshes the mouth, but overall this one isn’t worth the price.  You won’t be eagerly re-brewing it, so you won’t want a whole box of it.  We even think that after you drink it, you’ll be rushing to brush your teeth just to get the taste out of your mouth before you go to bed.

Best time of year to drink this: Spring / summer

Best time of day to drink this: Night

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