Dragonwater Organic Peppermint Tea Review

A Top-Notch And Very Powerful Organic Peppermint Tea!

Summary : Do you like things that are organic? And do you like peppermint? Well...if you do, then this peppermint tea from the Dragonwater Tea Company is for you. This tea has a wonderful and very strong peppermint taste, and is far superior to any bagged peppermint tea you are ever going to find in a supermarket.

Review : I got very lucky tonight. Depending on my mood, I have developed two methods in deciding what teas to review. The first method involves being in the mood for a specific taste/season/type/brand of tea. I then rummage through my collection and see what turns up. The second method, and the one I used tonight, is far simpler...I just open up the box that I store my loose-leaf samplers in, reach in, grab the first thing I find and pull it out.

This "random" method, of course, is how I end up drinking lots of very bad teas! Yet, this grab-bag approach yields many fine teas too. And so my heart lept a bit when the first tea I grabbed this evening was a loose-leaf organic peppermint tea from Dragonwater Tea Company.

As anyone knows who reads some of my other reviews on this site, I adore mint teas...and peppermint teas in particular. I don't even mind most supermarket brands, although those tend to fall way, way short in taste and quality when stacked up against a good loose-leaf peppermint tea.

The Organic Peppermint Mint Tea from Dragonwater Tea Company contains exactly one ingredient : Organic Peppermint Leaves.

As I was hopefully expecting, the aroma of this tea is wickedly strong. When you first open up the package the leaves come in, well, what can I say...it is potent! And it should be...after all, this is a peppermint tea. And good ones always have a super-strong aroma before brewed.

Once the tea has been brewed, this tea both looks and tastes like other top-level peppermint teas I've had. That said, I did find the flavor in this tea to pack "just a bit" more of a punch than in other loose-leaf peppermint teas I've had. In particular, I found the after-taste to be just a tad stronger. But, this could have been due to the way I brewed it...I used about 3 teaspoons of leaves for 2 cups of water, and let it brew for 8 minutes.

Overall, if you love peppermint tea, go out and get this tea...now! And if you've never had a loose-leaf peppermint tea before, well, I pity you. You see, there is no comparison between a good loose-leaf peppermint tea like this one and the "garden variety" bagged peppermint teas you find in the grocery store.

One question I can see coming is...which one is better? This particular organic peppermint tea, Culinary Teas organic peppermint tea, or the Adagio peppermint tea (which isn't organic). All three teas are top-notch quality, and all use leaves from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon/Washington mainly). I personally rate all three teas five-stars, as I love them all.

But, quite truthfully, I think this particular tea from Dragonwater had a bit better and stronger flavor. If I had to live on a deserted island the rest of my life and had to choose between the three teas, I would choose this one, as the flavor just perfectly "hit the spot" to me. Of course, if you like a "tad weaker" tea, then perhaps the others might work better for you.

Regardless though...all three teas are awesome. We are talking a "very small" difference in flavor here...so small that most people probably won't even notice.

Recommendation : Yes. This is a superb peppermint tea that is also organic too. Wickedly strong aroma and a very potent flavor that has a after-taste that just lingers on and on and on.

Featured Mint Tea Valerian Mint Tea : Pure Valerian Root blended with Peppermint and Spearmint. Price : $5.95 for 1/4 lb of tea Available from Dragonwater Tea Company

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