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Flavour: Enchanted Narnia

Ingredients: Rosebuds, cocoa shells, rose petals, lemongrass, raspberry leaves

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7 for 50g

Review: We love the name – and thankfully it doesn’t disappoint as a drink. It smells planty, florally and soapy – which you might not think sounds appetising, but this is a nice one. We don’t normally like lemongrass, but in this blend it’s balanced so well by the rose, while the cocoa shells give it an earthy flavour, so you don’t feel like you’re drinking kitchen cleaner or perfume. It’s a gorgeous combination, bright and vibrant, making it a perfect pick-me-up in the middle of the day.

Best time of year to drink this: Spring

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon, to get you through a long day

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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: Raspberry & Lemon

Ingredients: Hibiscus, rosehips, blackberry leaves, natural lemon flavouring with other natural flavourings (8%), natural raspberry flavouring with other natural flavourings (7%), rose petals (5%0, lemon peel (5%), liquorice root, natural flavouring

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: Around £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: It smells like cleaning products…and it tastes cleaning producty, too. We had to fight to taste any raspberry. The box says there’s ‘a hint of rose petals’ but we found the rose before any fruit, unless you count the horrible citric acid feeling in our throats. Ginger asked, ‘Could it be nicer cold?’ Tulsi said, ‘It’d just be cold cleaning products.’ After a while, Ginger asked, ‘Why am I still drinking this??’

Best time of year to drink this: Summer, if you must

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoons, if you must

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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: English Rose

Ingredients: Black tea, flavouring (1.5%), rose petals (1.1%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £8 for 100g

Review: Although this contains a smidge of flavouring, it doesn’t taste artificial at all. The aroma is subtly rosy, and the flavour is similar. It’s not too floral or perfumy, instead like black tea but with a nice, mellow edge that removes the bitterness, and no aftertaste. It’s easy drinking in the morning or afternoon, simplistic and beautiful. An instant favourite.

Best time of year to drink this: Spring / summer

Best time of day to drink this: Morning / afternoon

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Flavour: Frog Prince

Ingredients: Green tea, natural raspberry flavour, raspberry leaves, raspberries and rose petals

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.99 for 50g

Review: Another one from the fairytale collection. It has a very pleasant aroma, like being in the woods, with a fruity tartness. We could immediately imagine wild raspberry bushes. The flavour is like a mellowed green tea. It’s nice and fresh, and not bitter at all. However, for all that raspberry in the ingredients list, we couldn’t taste it. It’s not the fruitiest of teas, nor the most exciting. It’s just a nice green tea, for people who usually find green tea a bit too strong.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Enchanted Forest

Ingredients: White tea, rooibos, apple pieces, blueberries, hibiscus, natural strawberry flavour, strawberries, rose petals, cornflowers and vanilla flavour

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7

Cups Per Bag: 40 (approx.)

Review: This is such a cute idea for a tea company! All the flavours are themed, taking inspiration from literary classics. This particular blend comes from the fairytale collection. It smells like its tea base, but also strongly of rooibos…and amorphous fruitiness. The actual tea flavour is subtle, even after a long brew; it’s not bitter at all. The rooibos also isn’t particularly overpowering. We found it hard to identify the individual fruits, but there was a mild sweetness and tartness. The ingredients blend together well – so well that we wondered why more brands hadn’t thought to mix a tea base with fruit, to take the edge off things. All in all, this wasn’t the most exciting blend we’ve ever tried, but it was really pleasant and we can see a lot of people enjoying it.

Best time of year to drink this: Summer?

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Mulberry Ripple

Ingredients: Apple bits (apple, acidifier: E334), mulberries (8.5%), raspberries, natural and artificial flavouring, orange blossoms, rose petals, marigold petals, bamboo leaves, jasmine blossoms

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: This one smells soooooo good – sweet and fruity, like mulberry with raspberry ripple (exactly like the name promises). The flavour is initially overwhelmingly sweet, but then tart and, unless you brew it and brew it, quite watery. But it’s pleasant. We wondered if it would be nice cold, and the answer was no – keep it hot. Make it strong, too, because the taste is so subtle and it needs to be drawn out more. Then, it’s lovely. We’re just puzzled over what the bamboo leaves add to the flavour….

Best time of year to drink this: It’s intended for Christmas-time

Best time of day to drink this: Evening, after dinner

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Flavour: Frosted Fruitcake

Ingredients: Rooibos, cinnamon, apple, ginger, natural and artificial flavouring, dates, fig, orange peel, sultanas, chicory root, liquorice root, star anise, red currants, cloves, white pepper, marigold blossoms, vanilla, rose petals, rhubarb pieces

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £7.50

Cups Per Box: 40 (approx.)

Review: Yeeech! All those ingredients, and all we can smell is ‘artificial’. There’s no fruit aroma, no spice…nothing, really, but ‘flavouring’. The flavour is no better. There’s a hint of fruit (sultanas, mainly), drowned in artificial vileness. Tulsi couldn’t even think of a way to put it into words, other than ‘undrinkable’. Ginger wasn’t quite as put off by it but still didn’t see the point, when there was almost nothing there to taste. We both agreed it was dehydrating. We’re marking this one an AVOID.

Best time of year to drink this: It’s intended for Christmas-time…but no

Best time of day to drink this: Just don’t!

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Flavour: Golden Pear

Ingredients: Dried apple pieces, dried pear, rose blossoms, vanilla pieces, natural flavours

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £10

Tin Size: 125g

Our Review: Right. So. It smells like slightly fermented fruit, and you can see chunks of it in the bag inside the tin. The flavour sinks to the bottom of the cup, so you have to stir the drink constantly to keep things consistent. Then when it hits you…yuck. It’s a combination of almost tasting like nothing…and then ew. It leaves a citric acid feeling in the mouth, so it’s sweet and acidic at the same time…and generally horrible. We don’t know how this passed the taste test, or how the flavouring can be marked as natural, because it really doesn’t taste like it. This was an instant AVOID.

Best time of year to drink this: Never

Best time of day to drink this: Never

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