I really, really liked this tea. It was fruity, with almost a winey flavor. It is more accurately a tisane rather than a tea because it has no tea in it. It is prevalently black currant and blackberry, with the tang of ginseng, sweetened with a little vanilla. It doesn’t have any caffeine at all, so if you are watching your caffeine intake this is an excellent alternative to morning coffee. I sweetened it with a little sugar to bring out the flavors of the fruit. Don’t expect to taste the vanilla, though. It was lost in the other flavors.

I really thought it was addictive and as I was sipping it I was concocting iced Revive tea, Revive tea popsicles, Revive punch, and even Revive tea jelly. Hey, an added bonus..Black currants are really high in antioxidants!

I am not sure if I imagined it or not but after I finished the cup I did seem to feel more energetic and awake than I had before. If you try this, let me know..I would like to know if I am imagining things or not! LOL!

Allow the bag to steep longer than you would a normal tea since it is dried fruits and not tea leaves. Five minutes would not be too long. The tea brews a dark purple, almost like grape juice.

It also comes in a Cherry and cinnamon version.

Image(c) Marye Audet, Apron Strings and Simmering Things 

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Mmm. Teavana Raspberry Sangria.  It just sounds good, doesn’t it?  Do you know that I fed the used tea, after I had made my drink, to the chickens and they loved it ?  Why wouldn’t they?   Have you looked at all the dried  fruit in this stuff!

I really, really liked this tea.  It was tangy and fruity with a lot of raspberry flavor.   The aroma drew in every one of the kids in this entire house, no small feat- that, so my recommendation is not to brew it when you want some quiet time.

Perfect sweetened.  Sort of a sophisticated kool-aide I suppose.  I am looking forward to trying it this summer, sweetened with too much sugar,  so icy cold that the pitcher steams up and water drizzles down the outside, poured in frosted glasses with a slice of lime..and sipped slowly on the front porch.

Don’t get me wrong, this was great as a hot tea.  But it is trying to hit 70 degrees today, and I am looking wistfully at the empty vegetable garden, and the horses are looking wistfully at the pasture we have them locked out of (so it can grow) which is just tinged with with lightest green of spring.  For the first time ever I am tired of crackling fires and being cold.

But I am very ready for summer, and Teavana Raspberry Sangria tea is a summertime tea.  Drink it now to remember that there are days when it is too hot to do more than page through a magazine, as you recline limply on the couch.  Drink it now, so you can close your eyes and mentally walk through  moist woods in the morning, picking ripe berries as you find them and enjoying the solitude.

For those of you that are more prosaic and less poetic : that translates as a combination of hibiscus blossoms, apple bits, and rosehip peel flavored with raspberry (and I think raspberries in the tea? I thought I saw some).  very high in antioxidents.  4.50 for 2 oz.

Good stuff, either way.

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