WonderBerry Chocolate Truffle Oolong Tea

I received this tea as a gift for Valentines day. I immediately ripped open this bag and brewed a cup...it was kinda gross. I was expecting a nice cocoa flavor but all I got was a mouthful of berry and some bittersweet chocolate. I tried it one other time adding a little more sugar hoping to take away the bitterness, but to no avail. It still tasted like bitter cherry cough syrup. I really wanted to like this one because I'm looking for a good tea to satisfy my sweet tooth.

The smell caught me in the store and the taste will keep me coming back. I love the blackberry taste. I tried it with a little of the rock sugar and it really tastes great

I did not like the smell of this one bit. I tried it anyway and it is WONDERFUL! It didnt even need sugar. Very flavorful.

This is a GREAT tea for someone who loves chocolate truffle. The smell is amazing! It smells like rich creamy chocolate and sweet berries. The taste is GREAT as well! It tastes like biting into a chocolate truffle.I decided to blend/mix this tea with the Spice of Life White tea and it was the bomb! Its so good! If you do not like the flavor of the Wonderberry Chocolate Truffle I would DEFINENTLY recommend you blending this tea with the Spice of Life!

This tea is good. The only thing is that if you wanted milk with it, don't because it will curdle, because of the tang of the raspberries. I do notice that my teeth do feel better drinking this tea and that is one of the benefits to oolong tea.

Received through the Classic Journey Tea Club, I found it to be over the top delicious and so did my friends. The scent alone is worth experiencing and gives one the introduction of all the flavors to come- smooth chocolate, fruit and vanilla. What's not to love?

This becomes an EXCELLENT dessert tea with just one slight alteration --- add 1/8 teaspoon of cocoa powder when steeping!

I was not satisfied with this tea the first time I tried it. It had an overly strong "berry" taste and the chocolate flavor was very weak. I could mainly taste the cherry, which is probably why some people have associated this with a medicinal or "cough syrup" taste. I would describe it as a very cherry-based tea with only slight hints of chocolate. It was OK, but by no means something I would purchase again.

I drank maybe 2 ounces of the 12-ounce cup I had prepared, then dumped out the rest. ~ But before discarding the leaves, I heated more water and tried brewing with a small amount of cocoa powder and just 3-4 rocks of sugar added to the PerfecTea maker to see if that would help tone down the berry. I WAS THRILLED WITH THE RESULT! I used only 1/8 teaspoon of Hershey's Dark Cocoa Powder, and the difference in taste was amazing. You can still taste the berry, but it is not nearly as overwhelming as before. The cocoa taste really stands out, which I believe is the result they were going for when they thought up this "chocolatey dessert tea." I think they simply did not add enough chocolate to the mix!

Don't be afraid to experiment with your teas to create something you enjoy! This is the main idea behind blending different types of tea to create unique combinations -- like the immensely popular Youthberry White and Wild Orange Blossom Herbal, or my favorite, the Caribbean Calypso Mate' with Apple Lemon Pomegranate Rooibos! I don't enjoy the Apple Lemon Pomegranate AT ALL on its own, but the resulting blend of these two is much to my liking. Similarly, nobody ever said you can't add your own ingredients to alter the taste of any of Teavana's teas!!! If it doesn't taste how you thought it would, don't give up on it completely. Just use your imagination and see if you can't make it better.

I would have NEVER purchased more of this tea if I hadn't tried adding the cocoa powder. Now, I will not only purchase more of it, but I will gladly recommend it to others.

This tea is very aromatic, in a good way, but when it comes to taste, really lacks. I've tried adding more to the serving, but it still does not help. What I like to do is fill the teaball half way (a little closer to 2 tsp), steep for the 3 min, then I add some hot cocoa-just enough to flavor it. Otherwise, the tea tastes like a barely-flavored hot water. The good: Smells great, great flavor (when enhanced), rather comforting. The bad: No flavor if not enhanced somehow (if you add the cocoa, suddenly you can taste the berries and tea)

BEST DESERT TEA! I taste the chocolate (not sure where some are saying they can't) and it is not bitter (if brewed corectly!). Has a wonderful smooth flavor and smells like heaven. I recommend this to everyone! I have been drinking loose leaf tea for many years and if done right (tea is very specific on how you do it) comes out the way it should taste! I use an electric tea kettle to make the water at right temp, steep in the perfect tea maker, and use the teavana tea timer (I use the teavana tea scoop for measuring). Never have a problem with my teas not coming out right. If I want sweetness I use the German Rock Sugar (I never add cream or anything else).

The first time I tried this tea, the smell alone nearly made me gag. I thought nothing could get worse, until I tasted it. It's like rotted fruit, burnt rubber, and that piece of old Christmas chocolate you find in the couch cushions in July, know you shouldn't eat, but do anyway in a moment of weakness. The flavors are overbearing and overwhelming, bitter while managing to be sweet and cloying at the same time. (Now that takes talent.)

I thought maybe I'd brewed it incorrectly--used too much, the wrong kind of water, let it steep too long, added too much of that delightful rock sugar (I think I love Teavana just for that stuff alone). You have no idea how many ways I tried to make this tea tolerable. I got obsessed with it, turning it into a project, hoping if I found the perfect brewing method it would finally taste right.

Finally I just had to accept that this particular flavor combination is not for me, and isn't working as a tea. It might work better for coffee, or someone with a different palate. For me, I couldn't scrub it out of my infuser fast enough, and I swear even after brewing dozens of other strong-smelling teas (the Raspberry Riot Lemon Mate is delightful, and potent enough that it should wipe it out) every once in a while I still catch a whiff of rotten berries and stale chocolate.