Republic of Tea's Cranberry Blood Orange

After reading Liquid Jade, which addresses many of the current social issues of the tea industry, I am especially interested in Fair Trade Certified teas. Therefore, I was quite excited to receive some of Republic of Tea's Fair Trade Certified Cranberry Blood Orange Black Tea in my tea swap box (along with about twenty other kinds of tea, so stay tuned). 

I love orange. A lot, as you may have noticed from that Chocolate Orange Truffle post.  Unfortunately, this tea lacked much orange flavor, dominated as it was by the cranberry.  I couldn't taste much other than cranberry, including the black tea base. 

As much as I like Fair Trade, I'll have to pass on this one for now. However, there are a multitude of goodies still in my tea swap box, and I can't wait to dive in further. 

Comments

[David Wolfe]

Interesting. One would think from the word cranberry connected as an adjective to the word orange, that orange would be the dominant additive flavor. I wonder who dreams up these names and pursuant to what criteria. You might do a blog posting on the subject of tea nomenclature some day!

[Teas]

Interesting. Possibly a bad batch maybe? Would you try it again from somewhere else if the chance arose, and hope that you did have a bad batch?

[Stephanie Hanson]

I like the idea of an article on tea nomenclature.

I might try it again if it were offered to me, but I wouldn't purchase it.

[the]

Its a great combination of orange and Cranberry. Seems healthy. Some medical professionals and specialists believe that quinic acid abundant in cranberry may help to prevent the development of kidney stones.