Tea Review: Revolution teas (3 flavors)

I'm excited to be reviewing three different flavors of Revolution Tea [1]: English Breakfast Tea, Sweet Ginger Peach Tea, and Earl Grey Lavendar Tea! My friend Lin sent these teas to me as a gift, and, having already tried the Golden Flowers Herbal Tea [1], I was expecting to really enjoy these three teas, as well!

Revolution Tea [2] comes in individual teabags (Revolution calls them "Infuser Bags"), which are a fine mesh plastic teabag with string and tag attached. The teabags allow great water-flow, and provide a beautiful view of the tea inside. The tea in these bags, by the way, is high-quality tea and contains sizeable tea leaves and/or herbs.

As you can see in the photo above, inside the box of tea, there is a clear plastic container holding the teabags, with a hinged snap-lid. This container helps keep the teabags fresh, and easy to access.

However, don't like the fact that the container is clear, letting in light, which means that in order to preserve the tea, the container must also be stored in the original box. This means that getting out a teabag involves opening a box, taking out a container, opening a container, and taking out a teabag. I'd much rather be able to just store the containers, without worrying about keeping them in a very dark place or in the box.

This small issue aside, Revolution Tea [3] is the next-best thing to brewing loose leaf tea in your cup: convenient, high-quality, and delicious!

Revolution's English Breakfast Tea is a tasteful combination of Ceylon and Assam teas. I don't drink a lot of English Breakfast teas, in general, but I did enjoy this one. It makes a good morning tea, and it's great cold/iced, too!

Now, I was very excited about trying this Sweet Ginger Peach Tea. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. Along with Ceylon and Assam teas, ginger root and peach flavor are the only other ingredients. I'm not sure what, exactly, the peach flavor is. I suppose it smells and tastes remotely like peach. Or maybe it's just the combination of ginger and peach. Although I generally love both, and I believe I've had them together before.

At any rate, I really really wanted to like this tea. I've had at least 5 cups of it. I just don't like it. I know, I know... I usually like everything. But not this. So, the rest of the box will be passed on to my tea-loving cousin, in the hopes that she may enjoy it.

This Earl Grey Lavendar Tea is fabulous! I don't know if companies have only recently started producing lavendar-flavored teas, or if I just never happened across any, but I'm really liking the twist that lavendar gives an otherwise-ordinary tea.

This Earl Grey Lavendar seems perfectly balanced, with a definite, smooth lavendar flavor. The bergamot is more of a background flavor, which I like, since I am not the world's biggest Earl Grey fan. This tea contains Ceylon, Darjeeling, and Foromosa Oolong teas in addition to the French lavendar flowers and bergamot oil.