Today (March 23, 2013), I dropped by Teavana to see what’s new. Turns out, there are five new seasonal teas for spring. They are as follows:
- Chocolate Bananas Foster
- Strawberry Cream
- Dragonfruit Devotion
- Winterberry Spice
- Berry Almond Amaretto
As you can imagine, I was pretty curious about any tea called, “Chocolate Bananas Foster.” It sounded so un-tea like. I surprised that it did really have a pretty strong banana and cocoa aroma. Since the Chocolate Bananas Foster Teavana tea sounded the most exotic of the new teas, I decided that I’d get some and write a review of this tea. I’ve been making all my Teavana teas iced. Previously, I had bought a nice infusion pitcher at Teavana, which makes making iced tea a little easier than I ever imagined it would be.
Here’s what this unique tea looks like:
I smelled several other teas, and bought some more German sugar too. Emily remembered me from last time, and had gotten a kick out of the previous blog article! She said she’d be looking for herself again in this new article!
I brewed my new tea double strength, and added a little sugar. After it had cooled all the way down, I tried the Chocolate Bananas tea, pouring it over ice. It was good! It was an unusual flavor. I think many people (or at least myself) often expect a sort of sweet, fruity flavor for iced tea, and it was interesting having one that was a little weightier and somehow a little bolder.
I added a little milk. And this is what happens when iced tea dreams of being an iced latte:
Don’t try this at home. 🙂
Actually, that was remarkably good. It was definitely heavier than a typical iced tea. Even without the milk, the tea tasted pretty rich. So if you want an interesting iced tea latte, prepare the Chocolate Bananas Foster tea double strength, add sugar, and add milk.
Hope you enjoyed your latest Teavana update!
(Important reminder – Starbucks has said that starting next month, Teavana stores will start taking the Starbucks Card as a form of payment, and you’ll earn Stars for your purchases there. Very cool!)
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Melody I cannot imagine the test of the banana foster tea but I always brew my tea double strength. I look forward to going to teavana when they start accepting the SB card.
I would also think the best way to taste these teas is without milk but then again I know people like it with milk. BTW how many Teavana stores are there around by you?
Hi Purple1 – I did first try it without milk – and it was good! This
is a great tea. Though I thoroughly enjoyed the bit of milk in it. I
think there about 300 Teavana stores nationwide. I have two that I am
able to get to. I can walk to the one in Pacific Place mall in downtown
Seattle. Or I can take a bus over to Bellevue Square and go to the one
in the Bellevue Square mall. (There’s a great express bus from downtown
Seattle to Bellevue Sq.) I think there’s one somewhere north of
Seattle, but without a car, I cannot easily get to it.
We must be a hotbed of tea here, because in the city I live in (which is not as big as Seattle) we have 2, one in each of the malls. I happen to live centrally and could get to either in 10 minutes. Having said that, I’ve been once. I bought a cup of tea (about the size of a Grande) that cost me $5, which seemed pricey to me, and I’ve never been back. Not for any particular reason, I guess I just don’t drink a lot of tea anymore.
Oh man. I am in love with Teavana. I always have been but it’s grown worse since a.) they moved in to my local mall, and b.) they’ve merged with Starbucks. I’m secretly hoping that the news that they will be accepting Starbucks Cards there soon also means that the employee discounts will soon be reciprocal as well.
I was at the Teavana store on Saturday and, although I didn’t check out any of these new teas (I was on a mission to replace my Earl Grey Creme), I did pick up some Blackberry Mojito and some Almandine Rose, both of which are thoroughly lovely.
We asked our RD that question this week and he said that he didn’t see that happening anytime soon. Because there are so many of us, and so few Teavana stores, they fear we would descend en masse and wipe out their profits. Which is completely valid. I think it’d be great if they’d offer us our discount around the holidays, but I can see why it can’t be an everyday thing.
That’s definitely an understandable reason, though selfishly I wish for even something small, like 10%, or even 5%, or offer reciprocity like, once a quarter or something. I’m dreaming. 🙂
This sounds really interesting! I’ve only recently started trying to get into teas—I have several friends that love tea and can recommend good ones for me to try. I’ll have to mention this to them, too!
Teavana is a really good place to go to check out teas and figure out what you like, but I would definitely recommend checking out the website and knowing a little bit about what you are interested in before walking in. Some of the employees (are they partners too now?) are super good at the old upsell. 🙂
I’m not a banana fan so I probably won’t try this. However, the other teas I would try.
Dragonfruit Devotion
Winterberry Spice
Berry Almond Amaretto
They sound good.