Starbucks is testing a new sparkling drink. It’s Teavana tea with juice, fizzed in their Fizzio machines. You can find this fizzy beverage in Vancouver (British Columbia), San Diego, and Toronto. It’s only in select stores, and may include few areas that are suburbs to those cities.
There are two flavors to the new Sparkling Teavana Tea Juice:
- Black Tea with Tangerine
- Passion Tango Tea with Pineapple
The beverages are fairly simple as to the ingredients. One of them is Teavana iced Black Tea with Tangerine juice, fizzed in the Fizzio machine, and the other is Teavana iced Passion Tango Tea with Pineapple juice, fizzed in the Fizzio machine. The juices may have a few have flavors in them (other juices) but there is no added sweetener, such as classic syrup or other Starbucks syrups.
I immediately noticed that the Passion Tango with Pineapple one fizzes up more than the Black Tea with Tangerine. The barista helping me (I think she said her name was Sam) said she noticed the same. It doesn’t seem to affect the flavor in anyway, but just know that the Passion Tango one will be foamier.
I asked the barista which drink has been more popular. She guessed perhaps the tangerine version, but it was too soon to tell. My favorite was definitely the Passion Tango with Pineapple juice. It’s noticeably sweeter than the tangerine drink, and very refreshing as a very fizzy drink.
This sparkling Teavana tea test began on July 7th and is slated to last through the summer. Let me know if you’ve tried these drinks!
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It would be great to have testing in the East! II love trying new products. The Passion fiZZy sounds delicious!
My favorite Starbucks: East Longmeadow, MA location and
Longmeadow, MA
I’d love to be involved!
My cousins live near your home base and love Starbucks!
Thank you for all your innovations! Hope to hear from you.
Lannie
Here in San Diego, the Passion Tea + Pineapple sells more than the Tangerine. (At least in my store). Also, I encourage customers to try new things, like switching the bases with Passion Tea + Tangerine and Black Tea + Pineapple. These things are quite good imho!
There’s a problem with this in that this brand unlike Tazo is not kosher which has wiped out another range of Starbucks drinks suitable for us. Considering the lineage of it’s CEO Starbucks makes disappointing choices sometimes.
How cool, I would love if these went national, Starbucks doesn’t have many fizzy drinks up in the northeast, it would be a fun switchup! Great article as always, Melody!
These sound delicious! I hope the test is successful and they are available in more places.
try it out on Junction store I was pretty sure something was wrong when I asked girl she said no. Taste good but more than half of it was bubbles and when they are gone there is nothing to drink and paid $10 for glass of fuzz bubbles. Very disappointed