Revitalise me! (Twinnings Wellbeing Blends Lemon and Ginger Tea)

Member Name: berrydelight

Product:	Twinnings Wellbeing Blends Lemon and Ginger Tea
Date:	04/06/09 (75 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty change to standard fruit/classic teas, nice warm tongue from the ginger!

Disadvantages: Natural flavourings is not a valid ingrediant and the cost

In my office we drink a lot of tea! We get through on average six cups a day, not to mention my breakfast cup at home in the morning and my Earl Grey in the evening, that adds up to an extraordinary and unhealthy amount of caffeine and a lot of trips to the loo!

In an attempt to broaden my tea drinking horizons I have been experimenting. Memories of fruit teas from my childhood are not very pleasant and I distinctly recall an unsavoury aftertaste in nearly all of them which meant that my first furrow into this new world had to be as un-fruit like as possible. First came a flirtation with Green Tea which gave way to a more profound love of Peppermint and now I was seriously stepping it up a gear with Twinnings Lemon and Ginger.

As a tea snob its always Twinnings for me and this little beauty was on offer in Morrison's meaning I could try out 20 tea bags for 76p. Now don't get me wrong this is still reasonably expensive experimentation and good old builders tea at 1.9p per tea bag cant really be beaten on value but the pretty packaging and the promise that I would be revived and revitalised did the job.

The packing is distinct from all others on the shelf in its sunset yellow shade with a water spattered piece of ginger and succulent piece of lemon adorning the box. My box was not from the wellbeings range so I suspect this combination has branched out into the mainstream Twinnings selection.
It states very clearly that the tea contains all natural ingredients! I was pleasantly surprised 36.5% ginger root, Natural Lemon Flavourings 27% lemongrass, blackberry leaves, lemon peel, Linden, Natural Ginger flavouring 3.5%. Hmmmm "Natural Lemon Flavouring" how natural can flavouring really be?? Sadly no explanation was given of this on the packet.

The bag has an overpowering smell of ginger, enough to make you noise tingle and there doesn't appear to be a lot of ingredients in the over size teabag but I think the extra space helps it infuse. You pop it in boiling water for 3 minutes and hey presto! The mush that is left in the bag once its brewed is bizarre sort of like wet sand which true to form holds a rather large amount of water that was promptly dripped as I transferred bag from cup to bin.

The Taste

The first smell you get is unsurprisingly ginger so I was staggered that the predominant flavour was lemon, it doesn't last long and when the taste dies down your tongue tingles with the warming ginger but I couldn't really taste the ginger as an independent flavour which as a ginger fanatic was a shame. However because of the subtley of the ginger flavour even if you weren't a huge fan of the stuff you may still enjoy this tea. To my absolute delight no horrible aftertaste.

On the whole it was refreshing, a nice change and a good combination. Apparently it helps aid digestion and being naturally caffeine free will hopefully mean I can wean myself off at least two of my daily cups of builders tea onto this more refined alternative!

Summary: A refreshing variation