 | "China Mist's teas aren't exactly awe-inspiring, but this Raspberry iced tea is among their best offerings."
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As I’ve mentioned before - you have been paying attention, right? - I’m not a huge fan of berry-flavored teas. Particularly not after having had the misfortune of tasting China Mist’s Black Currant (hot) tea, which was perhaps one of the worst tea-experiences I’ve had this decade. But, I’ve had some decent brews so far from China Mist’s line of iced tea flavors, and raspberry was next on the chopping block, so in I went.
Surprisingly, it went quite well. The tea smelled wonderful right out of the box - a sweet, definite raspberry-ish aroma - and thrill of all thrills, the taste translated directly to the finished product. For someone who generally doesn’t dig berry teas, the fact that I’m even remotely enthusiastic about this brew should be taken as HIGH PRAISE for this flavor. Of all the China Mist iced teas so far it may well be my favorite. Not perfect, but pretty good in a pinch.
And speaking of pinches, I brewed another batch of this stuff with just a bag of loose peppermint leaves and it was even better. (Peppermint flavor wicks off the leaves pretty quickly, so I only had it in there for maybe 30-45 seconds, just enough to give it the hint of flavor without actually overpowering everything else). The raspberry-mint combination plays really well off one another, and I’ll definitely be tinkering with this some more in the future.
The big mystery I’m left with is, how can their iced teas taste one way and their hot teas another? I assume its all the same ingredients, more or less. Maybe there’s a greater margin-of-error for iced tea since its more watered down?
So far the count for China Mist is:
(Nearly) Cravable: Raspberry Iced Tea
Drinkable: Mango, Fiesta Fria and Passion Fruit Iced Teas.
Forgetable: Prickly Pear Iced Tea, Earl Grey, Simply Mint, Lemon Ginger Green Tea
Regretable: Tea Lover’s (ha!) Decaf, Black Currant (blech!)
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