Celestial Seasonings Fruit Tea Sampler

Celestial Seasonings Fruit Tea Sampler Review

 (sorry the picture is a little dark. I was having lighting issues) 

 Our lively fruit tea collection includes five of our most beloved teas brimming with fruit flavor. 

 

"We packed as much lively fruit flavor into our Fruit Tea Sampler as our box would hold! From the sweet, simple pleasures of Black Cherry Berry to the sophisticated taste of Wild Berry Zinger, each of these luscious herbal blends is satisfying when hot and invigorating over ice."
—Charlie Baden, Celestial Seasonings Blendmaster

Celestial Seasonings was founded in 1969 by a visionary group of young entrepreneurs with an ambitious goal: to make the world a better place by sharing their knowledge of the health benefits of herbs. They were determined to find success while making their new company "an example that business can work in peace and harmony with the planet."

 

 

Forty years have passed, and Celestial Seasonings remains true to our founders' mission to consistently provide, in their words, "superior products" that help people live healthier lives, while still maintaining "high ideals" like farmer-friendly trading practices and the use of sustainable materials. 

 

Ingredients come from all over the world these days, but our all-natural teas have always been created in our hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Our passionate employees formulate the recipes, blend the ingredients, design the boxes and package the tea – just like when our founders dried handpicked herbs in a Boulder barn.

 

 

 

 

 

Commitment to authenticity has made us one of the largest Specialty Tea manufacturers in the North America, serving more than 1.6 billion cups per year, and one of our very first blends – Sleepytime – is still the most beloved herbal tea in the world. We know that our success is due to the millions of tea enthusiasts who share our belief in the truly original blend of "superior products" and "high ideals" that those young entrepreneurs began more than four decades ago.

 

 

Sustainable Packaging (No Strings Attached)

 

Our Amazing Tea Bag

Our natural fiber, chlorine-free tea bags don't starch or gluten and are biodegradable and compostable – making them better for you and for our planet. Best of all, because our unique pillow-style tea bag doesn't need a string, tag, staple or individual wrapper, we save 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering landfills every year!

 

Our Recycled Packaging

We think our boxes are just as important as the goodness they hold, so we've always created beautiful packaging adorned with commissioned works of art and thoughtful, inspiring words. But with a tea box that uses 100% recycled paperboard, including 35% post-consumer waste, and can be recycled again when empty, the beauty of our boxes isn't limited to appearances.

 

 

Our Retail Displays

We put as much thought into the retail displays in your store as we put into our boxes and tea bags. Our natural brown craft paper displays are made with 100% recycled paperboard, including at least 90% post-consumer content, and our display headers are made from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Mixed Sources Certified material. We also encourage our retailers to re-use or recycle our displays again when the tea is gone! 

 

Our Ongoing Commitment to Recycling

We're continuing our efforts to make our production facility as earth-friendly as our packaging. We recycle more than 700,000 pounds of material every year, including paperboard, shrink wrap, scrap metal, pallets and other materials. In fact, we've reduced the amount of waste we send to landfills by more than 60% in just the past few years! 

 

Our Building

From our increasing use of wind-generated electricity to power our factory, to expanded recycling and efficiency efforts in our office, to using compostable and biodegradable items in our tour center, café and tea shop, we're extending our commitment to the environment to every corner of our building.

Ethical Trade Ingredient Sourcing

Because we believe that the best ingredients come from the best farming and sourcing practices, and because our founding principle is to always do business the right way, we purchase each of our core botanical ingredients in accordance with our Ethical Trade philosophy.

 

Straight from the Source

Each of our signature botanical ingredients (including chamomile, spearmint and peppermint, lemongrass, hibiscus and many others) is purchased directly from the farmers and communities that grow them. Going “straight to the source” allows our botanicals purchasers to personally select only the highest-quality ingredients, and also means that more of the benefits of agricultural production stay within the local communities that grow our ingredients.

 

 

Long Term Relationships

Many of our ingredient suppliers have been part of the Celestial Seasonings family for more than 30 years – and they’ve grown as we’ve grown. By returning to the same farming families and communities year after year for our core ingredients, we provide our farming partners with the stability of a guaranteed market for their crops in the years to come. Long-term relationships also ensure a consistent, reliable and high-quality source for our most important botanicals.

 

Sustainable Agriculture

Our Ethical Trade partners use their expertise to produce the highest quality botanical ingredients while also being responsible stewards of the land. They choose to meet our strict standards for purity, quality and consistency by using sustainable agricultural practices that are better for the land, produce better ingredients and result in better teas. 

 

 

Passionate Experts

Quality ingredients are important, but we also rely on a team of quality people to make our delicious, all-natural teas. Many of our key Research and Development employees have each been with the company for almost 40 years and are recognized as experts in their fields – ensuring that every cup of Celestial Seasonings tea meets or exceeds our rigorous standards.

 

From our Senior Blendmaster, who tastes each batch of tea to make sure it’s just right, to our globetrotting botanicals purchasers, who have spent decades traveling the world finding the best herbs, teas and spices and discovering exciting new ingredients, these passionate experts – and many more just like them – personally ensure that the world's best ingredients come together perfectly every time to create the world's best teas.

Celestial Seasonings Fruit Tea Sampler Demo and Mini Review 

  Sorry the video is so shaky. I am working on correcting the issue soon. Also this is my first video I've done so I'm still getting the hang of reviewing/demonstrating while filming

Product Review 

      Let me first start by saying that I really like this tea.  I live in the "south" here in the USA and although Kentucky isn't in the main part of the south, I grew up on sweet tea.  To this day it's still my favorite so trying another tea is an easy thing to do but most often I find I'm disappointed.  I had tried a different brand of hot tea months back and was very disappointed with the quality. I had to use 2 tea bags just to get a decent flavor.  And that was with the same size cup pictured above.  Since it's been winter here I decided to give hot teas a try again and chose the Fruit Sampler from Celestial Seasonings. At my local Wal-Mart it was priced between $3-$4. Which is very affordable considering it comes with 18 tea bags.
      I like the variety in the sampler pack and each of the 5 flavors ( Raspberry Zinger, Country Peach Passion, Wild Berry Zinger, True Blueberry, and Black Cherry Berry) are very unique and put out a good strong flavor.  Compared to past teas I've tried they can sometimes taste very similar to eachother. My favorites though are definitely the Country Peach Passion and the Wild Berry Zinger.
      The packaging of this tea is different from other teas I've tried. I've found I prefer this in fact. They come sealed in a foil like packet so they are very fresh tasting. In the one photo above of the 5 teas you will see I just fold over the end where I opened it and this helps to the freshness sealed in.  Also if you look at the photo above or watch my tea demo you will see that the CS teas have the "pillow" style tea bag. I much prefer this as I feel this contains the tea better so i don't have to worry about tea leaves getting out of the bag. It doesn't have the staples so I can throw it and some water in the microwave and have tea on the run without the hassle of having up to 2 containers for the water and tea. It may be harder to get the tea bag out once its steeped, but I've left mine in several time if I'm on the run and don't have a spoon to get it out. It's never torn or had the tea leaves come out of the bag.
      Celestial Seasoning has several different varieties to choose from, they have Green, Herbal, Wellness, Rooibos, Sleepy Time, Chai, Holiday, and more.  Each of these "Lines" contain several flavors of tea within them. So there are several to choose from if you aren't and herbal tea person.
      Another added benefit of this tea is it is Caffeine Free, Gluten Free, and it is Kosher Certified which helps alot for people who have certain diets or cultural standpoints they follow. This company is also very "Green" oriented so they are focusing on doing things that help the planet and cut back on pollution.  In today's society that seems to be an attribute that is hard to find, especially for your larger brands.  They also focus strongly on ethical trade which is not only good for the "local farmers" but it helps the economy and consumers as well. 
      So I definitely reccomend you give this brand a try.  I feel they have a tea(s) for any and everyone.   Even if you've never tried tea or have a specific style of tea you like, not only will they most likely have that style but you will also be exposed to flavors and quality that surpasses several other brands.