Live Wire Lemon Tea Review

I'm sure it comes as no surprise that when David's Tea released its Feel-Good Collection I decided that I needed it. The packaging was so beautiful and it came with 5 new teas so how could I say no!

One of the teas that is in this collection is the Live Wire Lemon Tea.This tea has a high level of caffeine. It is a mate tea, also known as yerba mate. Mate tea is a traditional South American drink made for the dried leaves of an evergreen holly plant. Mate tea has significant cultural importance in South America and it is said to have the strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea and the euphoria of chocolate. If all that is true, that's one impressive drink!

This tea is made with apple, ginger, lemongrass, yaupon, and lemon peel. Yaupon is an interesting ingredient because it is a species of holly found in North American, that was used in Native American purification and unity rituals.

With so much cultural significance, I had to try it out and see for myself if it lived up to all of the hype. I made this drink according to David's Tea's instructions, added a couple pieces of rock sugar into my tea bag and steeped the tea for 6 minutes.

I love this tea! It is light, refreshing and tastes of citrus. Being a person that can't drink coffee because it makes me too jittery, this drink never gave me any of those side effects and I felt alert after drinking it. I would recommend this to anyone looking into alternatives to coffee or a new morning drink.

Top 5 Teavana Teas

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Since I've done a Top 5 Teas From David's Tea post it's only fair to do a Top 5 Teavana Teas post as well. Teavana is slightly more expensive than David's Tea and when you purchase tea you must buy at least 50 grams.

5. Maharaja Chai oolong tea has a low level of caffeine. This tea is the perfect blend of wonderful spices such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper and cloves. You don't need to add any sugar to it because it's sweet enough on it's own.

4. Moroccan Mint green tea has a medium level of caffeine with a wonderful taste of spearmint. I love mint teas and this is no exception. It's a great tea to start your day off in the morning.

3. Passion Tango herbal tea has no caffeine in it. If you love Passion Tea Lemonade at Starbucks then you will love this tea. It's refreshing and tastes delicious as well!

CocoCaramel Sea Salt is always a winner! 

2. Grape Wulong oolong tea has a medium level of caffeine. It's one of my current favourite drinks and is only available on the website in larger quantities. It's pretty finicky and needs to be made exactly right but when it is, it tastes amazing!!  It's also very good iced.

1. CocoCaramel Sea Salt herbal tea has a low level of caffeine. As the name states, there are notes of chocolate, caramel and sea salt that blend together to make such a wonderful flavour. I highly recommend this tea to everyone who asks!

Honourable mention: Teavana's Rock Sugar! It dissolves in hot water very well and brings out the flavours of the tea.

Keep calm and steep on!