Adagio Teas November-December 2016 Subscription Box Review

Adagio Teas Club is a bimonthly tea subscription service that sources its teas from the most delicious ingredients currently available. It allows you great flexibility in specifying what you would like for them to deliver: black, flavored, decaf, herbal or green/oolong teas. Once every two months, you will receive two bags of loose leaf teas that match the general type of tea that you select. I selected herbal teas.

My two teas arrived in a lovely box inside another box. Clearly the people behind Adagio Teas put some thought into presentation.

In addition to the box of teas itself, I was delighted to find a card encouraging me to share my experience with Adagio Teas.

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I was excited to try two of the three teas contained in this shipment: Berry Blues and Peppermint Herbal Teas. I also received a sample of Masala Chai Tea. Adagio’s loose leaf teas usually arrive in 3 oz bags, each of which makes approximately 38 cups of tea. This month was an exception: Peppermint Tea arrived in a 1.5 ounce bag, which makes approximately 19 cups of tea. Assuming I were going to drink all of the teas this month, since I drink roughly 4 cups of herbal tea each day, these two bags put together would normally last me about 14 days. In addition to the loose leaf teas, this month I received an added bonus: a sample of Masala Chai Tea. This one tea pouch makes an additional four cups of tea. So given the amount of tea in this month’s shipment, I’d normally be set for about 15 days worth of tea. If you take Adagio Tea’s advice and drink four cups each day for cardiovascular health, you’ll run out in about 15 days too!

Adagio Teas always taste and smell great, so I was excited when my package arrived!

Berry Blues Herbal Tea ($8) is a combination of blueberries, apples, rose hips and hibiscus flowers. It’s delicious. It has a lovely fruity, floral bouquet that smelled so great that my son started begging me to let him try some.

As much as I enjoyed looking into the lovely pomegranate hue inside my mug, I enjoyed drinking this fruity hibiscus brew even more!

Adagio’s Peppermint Tea ($6) is made from pure peppermint, without any added oils or sweeteners. It has a cool yet smooth and refreshing taste that woke up me this morning without any added caffeine.

Drinking Adagio’s Peppermint Tea was a lovely way to start a crisp, cool winter morning. As an added bonus, it left me with nice, minty breath.

Since my doctors have advised me not to drink caffeine, I wasn’t able to enjoy the sample of Masala Chai Tea.  I’ll pass it along to a friend who loves my caffeinated tea hand me downs.

As much as I like the idea of Adagio sending out tea samples with their subscriptions, I really wish they’d send out caffeine-free samples with their herbal tea subscriptions.

It’s also a bit strange to me that their sample selection this  month was the same as it was last month. Still, as I said then,this tea has a lovely aroma; it smells of mulling spices.

By prioritizing taste above all else, Adagio produces wonderful teas that I would be happy to enjoy daily. I look forward to exploring more of their herbal offerings as the year progresses. Adagio Teas Club is one of the least expensive tea subscriptions – $59 for 6 months of herbal tea or $99 for the entire year (the black, decaf, and green tea subscriptions cost a tad bit more). Still, as others have noted, you’d do just as well ordering their teas directly from them. The monthly subscription cost is roughly equivalent to the cost of their teas plus shipping and handling. As someone who signed up for the herbal tea club so that I could avoid caffeine, I was disappointed to have received the same black tea based sample that I received last month in addition to the two herbal offerings.

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