The perfect way to start the day!
This is a delightful black tea—I love its natural floral notes! This is a great tea for a celebration—or a private quiet moment!!
I keep a tea diary of all the new teas I try and I bought this tea to be my 100th entry. It is so fun and unique that it is a champagne tea. My thoughts on the tea itself: It is very subtle, in a lovely way. So light that it seems more like a green tea than a black (not bad). It comes out more floral than fruity. And the essence of champagne is gorgeous. This is indeed a special tea! I had a special tea party to mark the occasion and my friends all tried it as well. My friends reiterate the lighter tea taste and the floral notes, my husband added white chocolate notes. I rate all my teas out of 5 and this was a 4 for me = great. But I wanted to give it a 5 in this review because I was so pleased with my purchase, I'm delighted that this tea exists, it made my 100th tea tasting so special, and I really did like the tea!
This tea is one that I will keep reordering.
It's toasty and smoky . . . a tea with flavors different from the rest. It stands out and I use it to celebrate life's many great small moments.
I have bought this tea for many years. It's my favorite tea. The marigold petals and cornflowers add a special but subtle and refreshing flavor to it.
Unfortunately for me, this tea was not my cup. The overwhelming grape flavor profile left me in memory lane of grape soda/koolaide, and a slight film effect left in the mouth. Heavy on the grape flavor, watch out.
The flavor of the Ceylon tea is overwhelmed by “grape” flavor. It tastes like someone soaked grape flavored Skittles candy in my cup of tea.
The best loose leaf. Love this gently fruity black tea. Smells great brewing too.
I usually buy the teas in bags and not loose but I really wanted to try this tea. All I can say is wow. The flavors are fantastic. Celebration is an understatement.
This tea is sublime. Just the smell as one opens the tin is divine. It's a combination of white wine grapes, champagne, and tea blossoms. This is a must try, and it would make a fabulous gift to a fellow tea enthusiast.
This tea is worth its own Celebration! It is so smooth and a hint of sweet and and makes any morning or afternoon happier. I had run out of this amazing variety of tea and ordered a new tin last month. When I opened it & smelled it, it brought a big smile to my face & made my mouth water.
This is my favorite tea. It's refreshing to have multiple types of flower petals in it. The white wine grapes add just a touch of sweetness.
Not your ordinary cuppa. Has full but light body with a slight zip to the taste. I recommend sitting down with a cup and celebrate!
I do not like floral teas, but I love this even though it has flowers in it. It is a beautiful tea, and the taste has a complexity to it that keeps me sipping. It's also my son's favorite tea so I try to keep it around!
I really enjoy the flavor and aroma of this tea. It is great plain or even with a little lemon or lime for added tang. Great as an afternoon break.
I LOVE the Celebration Tea!! It's my very favorite black tea—the combination of flavors (white wine grapes, champagne, blossoms and flower petals make this a treat to sip every morning!!!
I tend to stick to tea bags, but I wanted to try something new. 20th Anniversary Celebration Tea did not disappoint. It has a light fruity and floral taste as described. It is different enough from my tried and true Rose Petal Black tea with grape and vanilla flavors. I imagine if you like the Rose Petal tea, you would enjoy the Celebration Tea. Visually, the cornflower petals contrast with the tea leaves which just make me happy as I make my cup of tea.
I really like this tea. It's interesting. With grape jolly rancher and a hint of floral, it's a welcome change to my simple black teas.
Love the taste
The smoothness of this warming and rich tea is further elevated by subtle floral and grapey fruit notes. Grab a cup and relax to music or do some reading as you breathe deeply and enjoy the elegance of this tea. Some milk and a flavored honey round out the cup, beautifully
I initially purchased this tea when it was Republic of Tea's Anniversary tea and fell in love. I'm generally an Earl Grey person first thing in the morning, but this is my second and sometimes third cup of the day. It's smooth, it's balanced, it is still delicious if technically over-steeped. Treat yourself to a great cuppa. This tea is one of my go-to presents for tea appreciators and I have never gotten a complaint. Simply love it.
My favorite part of this tea is the waft of fragrance when you open the canister. Sometimes I just open it to sniff the tea, it's that good. Not my favorite black tea, but very enjoyable
We love this tea at our favorite Tea Cafe so we brought it home. It's just the right tea for us when we need a relaxing break. It stands out with its slightly floral notes and the flavor complements our favorite tea cookies. I'm enjoying a cup right now!
I love the floral aromas it produces while steeping. Upon first sip I get those same floral notes with a bit of sweet fruity backnote. An all around nice sipping tea, I would purchase again.
This one is really good - not acidic & just enough sweetness
I've really enjoyed this as an alternative to other black teas.
This is my first time trying ceylon tea, and I have to say I am very pleased with the texture! This celebration flavor is fruity but not too strong, making for a delicious dessert tea. Highly recommend!
I wish this was available as a regular refill size
this is a flavor that to me is an acquired taste that first time tea buyers might overlook and miss out on a new experience
I've been buying this by the tin for years, because I'd never seen a refill option. I now have enough tins to build an addition onto my house. Then I realized they offer it in a bulk bag, which is not only more ecological, but economical, especially considering how much of it I drink. It's a mild tea, with very subtle flavors. Even my sister likes it and she's not fond of black teas. I usually drink it iced but it's good hot, on a cold morning (and it smells heavenly).
I got this tea for my mom and she absolutely loves it! She doesn't usually drink loose leaf tea, but she has been enjoying this one regularly for more than a year now. She says it's great cold brewed over-night in the fridge for the summer or hot in the winter.
I like just about everything I have ever tried from the Republic of Tea. This one, however, just did not do it for me. It was almost like there was an overwhelming amount of different flavors that, for me, just did not go well together. It overwhelmed the flavor of the tea itself. My brother in law didn't care for it too much either, and he loves just about any type of tea (and our tastes aren't that often in agreement either).
Recently used your teas at an Afternoon Tea fund raising event. I served Celebration and BlackBerry Sage. Guests were very impressed with the teas. I recently purchased Blueberry Lavender and it is great. The reason I like your teas is the variety available and the flavors, which are subtle. Customer service is great.
I love this tea, even though I don't find that it holds up well to multiple steepings the way others do. Still, I love the flavor and drink it often.
Celebration tea is "hands down" my favorite tea! I drink tea every day — never have drank coffee, so tea is a staple for me.
I'm more of a black tea purist. I gave this a try but it was just too sweet for me.
Despite the heavy nay-say, I decided to take a chance and order this tea. I straight love it. Yes, it isn't a punch in the taste buds, it's flavor is subtle and sinuous, curling over the tongue leaving behind a surprising variety of immediately identifiable tastes. Ah, there's the wine grapes, oh my, there goes the floral notes; is that what tea blossoms taste like? Lovely. And it's all swirling through with the least bitter black tea flavor that I've ever known. Also, if you steep it overnight, it's a delicious iced sweet tea. The flavors mature and meld. Delightful. But use less sugar if you do it that way.
I like the Celebration, not quite as much as I do the Ginger Peach, but I won't turn a cup of this stuff down ever. It seems to be a bit finicky for beginners in the tea-steeping, loose-leaf world. It's great as long as you are careful with your measurements and time. I went over with one of the two when I was making tea while multitasking and it kind of punched me in the face a bit, but keep in mind that I don't like for my tea to be very strong. Oh! I don't know why finding the little raisins in there made me giggle, but it did and I felt it was worth mentioning.
This is an unremarkable mild tea. The tea itself is not strong, nor are the flavors mentioned in the description. Nothing offensive, but nothing to celebrate.
Love this tea, it's rich, complex, and subtle. Marvelous aroma. Nothing overt nor cloying.
Reading the reviews I have heard so many people complaining how strong and synthetic it is and overly floral, but to me the tea is actually rather bland. I got a nice unopened jar that expires in 2022, so it's fresh. The smell is wonderful and the tea is very smooth no bitterness at all but I really don't get all the hype. I use my usual heaping teaspoon per cup and it just doesn't have much flavor. There is a slight floral and grape taste but makes me wonder what everyone else here is drinking because It isn't what I have. It is an ok tea overall, nothing wrong with it just not the flavor bomb all the reviewers made it out to be.
I've always loved champagne, so I was very excited to order this tea. Opening the tin, the first thing you notice is how absolutely beautiful it is. The contrast of the black tea leaves, swirled in with stunning blue and white petals. Then you catch the intoxicating floral and fruity notes. But this is no ordinary fruit tea... It doesn't actually taste like grape. Rather, it's more of a clean, naturally sweet black tea with an incredible friuty/grapey finish. For me, 1 tbls of tea in an 800ml tetsubin (steeped about 5 minutes each) will make three full pots before it becomes too weak (for me anyway lol). This is a phenomenal tea (especially for the price!), and it's sweet and delicious by itself, or with milk or creamer added. I'm on my second tin, and I'm definitely hooked!
I bought this tea because it sounded fun. It is and delicious. Slightly floral with a sweetness and mild fruity flavor.
This is by far one of my favorite teas. Celebration is the perfect name. Lots of different flavors.
a classic in my book> love love love!
I had to send this tea back. I couldn't drink it. It has a very strange artificial grape bubblegum taste. That's the best way I can describe it. Not my cup of tea!! Lol
I love earl grey tea and that's all I would drink until this tea was introduced! Now I have two favorites.
Wow! Celebration just became my favorite tea. The aroma alone is enough to make you close your eyes and almost swoon. A lot of teas smell good, but lose luster once brewed. Not so here. Absolutely yummy tea.
Black tea is my breakfast drink. Most mornings I don't have time to sit down for breakfast so I brew up one of my blacks to go with a portable breakfast, rotating through the list. Except for one. The Celebration tea is ONLY for when I DO have the time for a sit-down breakfast. It is too good for on-the-go. Only when I have time to savor the subtle flavors contained in this exquisite blend do I select this for my morning cuppa. It definitely deserves to be savored.
I love this tea. It is so delicious and fun to serve. I get great comments about how good it is. 12 women in our Bible study love it!
I've had my fair share of teas, and I've never had one quite like this! The hint of "champagne" as well as floral petals make for a delicate flavor, but the black tea leaves give it a full body, and I like it on special occasions as well as a casual Sunday afternoon.
One of the most delicious teas I've ever tasted...I'm hooked! Fan for life. Just wish that they made it in a decaf version.
I'm usually a little wary of fruity teas because I haven't had much luck with them, but this one looked so intriguing I had to take the chance. I'm really glad I did. It's a fine tea, and very tasty iced.
I'm just now getting to enjoy this tea after having it on my shelf for a while. It has a lovely aroma and a light delicious flavor with floral notes.
I drink over 2 L of brewed loose tea every day, and while I tend to favor oolongs and single-source whites, I keep coming back to the sweet comfort of this tea. Given that the flavoring can cover a multitude of sins, I very much wish that you offered this in a decaffeinated tea! I find that the flavor is perfect for the evening, but I'm too sensitive to caffeine to drink it then.
I love, love, love this tea. Fragrant on your nose, fragrant on your palate. When I've had a bad day I come home and this is the first thing I reach for. Please never stop making it.
At first I found this Celebration Tea quite bitter, but when I reduced the water temperature to 200° and brewed less tea in eight ounces of water, what a delight! It's an elegant, exotic, sophisticated flavor reminiscent of an eighteenth-century ballroom with candles and chandeliers. A Mozart of black teas.
I really like this tea. What happened to the 3.5 oz refill? I don't want to pay for another tin and don't want the huge bulk package. Guess I'll go over to Teavana to see what they have. Very disappointing.
When steeped correctly, this is a lovely black tea, with no bitterness, and just a hint of sweet already built in. The scent is also wonderful. It's a personal favorite of mine.
Love the taste, and you can taste the floral hints, only enough to please the palate, and not overwhelm. I thought myself very elegant when I first bought it, (it was actually for a celebration), brought it to work, and everyone loved it. They stopped selling it at my local specialty store, but I'm glad I found it online.
A nice surprise. This tea is light but flavorful, and not at all fruity or artificial, despite the grape and floral influences.
This is one of my first into the foray of tea drinking. Having been a heavy coffee consumer I wanted to branch out and explore the loose leaf teas that were available. I was also impressed by how the descriptor of the tea actually matched how I perceived the taste. Cheers to New Beginnings.
This tea is very enjoyable. I bought it as a sample and made it hot this morning. Love the subtle notes of white grape and vanilla, and the ceylon rounds it all out. Initially wasn't sure because I'm sensitive to the caffeine in black tea, but I'm glad I decided to try. Will buy again!
This is a beautiful tea perfect for afternoon. Complex flavors of fruit & flowers make it very similar to European teas. The vanilla makes it aromatic and helps ease my headaches. I hope this will be available forever because it is my favorite Celebration tea!
I actually really, really enjoy this tea. I got the sample deal so I can try a few different teas to see what I like, and Celebration was the first I've tried. I rather like the bouquet this tea has, and I live that grape flavor. I will definitely be ordering this really, really soon.
Just perfectly yummy.
I drink mostly red teas. Thought this celebration tea would be fun with the flowers and all--but a bit too much bouquet. I drink most of my tea as room temperature "ice" tea. And when I let this tea go cold--it has great flavor and quite a bit less flowery scent. A great ice tea and a good hot tea.
Love everything about this tea. Whenever I need a warm hug inside this is the one for me
I first ordered this to try because the colors in it were beautiful and your description sounded very enticing. My love affair with it began even before the first sip when I sniffed the wonderful aroma. The first sip (and each of many, many sips thereafter) have convinced me that I want this tea in my life to stay. I only allow myself to drink it a couple or three times a week because it has become my special treat to relax in the evening with a cup (or two or three) and a good book. I certainly hope you never discontinue this one!
I received this tea as a gift last year & since have made many pots on a cold winter afternoon. I used my coffee press to brew the tea. This is a "beautiful"tea - in the fresh flavor & the graceful colors of petals & tea leaves dancing in the pot. It truly does taste like champagne & is a celebration of flavor. I'm so glad this tea is still available - don't want to run out again!
I love the aroma of this tea, however, I believe it is an acquired taste and not just one or two cups would a person be able to decide for or against it - I am not a tea connoisseur and I don't drink this every day - I save it for when I have Greengage Jam from England on my English muffins.
This is my favorite tea, perfect combination of flavors. I enjoy it morning, afternoon or evening. Please keep it as a regular tea offering.
Celebration tea has a full flavor profile, a pleasant combination between fruity, sweet, and robust. A true treat.
this tea was too flowerly for my taste. I gave it a second chance and had the same opinion. I then gave it to my sister and a friend from Japan and they didn't like it either. This is the first tea of yours that I have not liked. I will stick with my favorites.
This tea is good, but I will likely not reorder it. It definitely has a distinctive floral, almost soapy note. Once you add sweetener, it seems to cut the floral taste a bit. It's VERY strong smelling in the can, almost like grape Kool Aid! It's a nice blend but likely not a reorder for me.
If you did not like this tea the first time you brewed it, you likely steeped it too long. It's fragile but complex and if you don't oversteep, no more than 3 minutes, it's magnificent in both aroma and flavor. It does, however, get bitter quickly if it's allowed to soak, so don't. I have gone through 3 cans of it and will order more.
A delightful, tasty blend that seems marked for special occasions! I like it brewed strong with a splash of milk.
I just brewed up my first cup of this tea and was sorely disappointed. This is the strangest tasting tea I ever had, and I am going to have to throw the rest out.
A fruit tea unlike any other fruit tea I've ever had. It seems crude to call it "grape tea" but that's essentially the effect, and it works incredibly well. There's a fantastic and complex balance here of a delicious sweet wine grapiness, a smooth black ceylon base, and light floral notes to balance it all out. I'm glad this is no longer being listed as "limited edition" because my family and I would hate to see it disappear!
This teas was definitely different than any other tea i've ever had. It's very fruity and has a pretty heavy grape scent, but the grape flavor is not as strong! It's tasty, but i'll need to be in the mood to enjoy it!
I loved the complex flavors in this tea from the beginning. Unfortunately the tea went bitter long before it's expiration date. I have lots of tea from ROT and this is the first I've had a problem with going bad before it should. The flavor was wonderful and complex; wished it lasted!
I thought this tea was going to taste weird, but I bought it anyway to try it. It is wonderful! Fruity, with the essence of champagne. I love it!
This is very pleasant, but I don't like it enough to purchase more of it. BUT my family loves it. They are drinking it. I am the ONLY one that has reservations. Based on that, I will say this is a very good flavor for them. It is smooth.
This tea is my very favorite, and have re-ordered after I tasted I once. I tried Comfort and Joy tea, Tea of Great Tidings, Spiced Plum, Orange Blossom tea and the Celebration of Tea. All wonderful, but this one and Tidings of great Joy are my favorites. The Orange Blossom tea is a bit too subtle for me, as I like full flavor. Wish these others came in bags, but I do the teapot thing and it is very tasty. I will want this when mine gets all. Should have it all year around. And certainly keep making the 20th Celebration Tea!!!
I ordered 2 tins of this tea based on the rave reviews (and the fact that it was not available in my local stores that carry ROT teas). I was sadly disappointed. I like fruity teas, in general, but this one has an overpowering scent and flavor of grape, and not in a good way. It reminded me of grape-flavored Kool Aid or Jello. I am trying to use it up by diluting it with plain black or green tea, but will not be ordering it again.
This tea is amazing! The aroma, the flavor... I took this to my office... EVERYONE lined up to try a taste. Many wanted to know how to get it! You've GOT to try this excellent black tea!
I usually don't care for floral teas, but I was intrigued by the ingredients. What a delightful surprise. I love this tea and hope that it's kept in stock for many more years.
I love this tea so much, I ordered a dozen tins. Wish it came in larger quantities. It has a very different flavor, very light, but not weak. Excellent!
I was expecting layers of balanced flavor as is usual with Republic's flavored teas. All I could taste was the perfume of the flowers, not the tea.
From the very beginning upon opening the container you are gifted with the wonderful aroma of the dry tea. Then while it is brewing you inhale the beautiful scents of warming memories of fruit and blossoms and when you finally begin to drink this amazing blend, your taste buds carry you away to a land of wonderful dreams.
This tea is unique and delicious. It truly is a celebration when I am enjoying this tea.
I ordered a couple of tins earlier this year. Such a pleasure to drink it. I liked it so well that I was pleased to see it still available and hope it will be a regular offering. It's just delicious whether I drink a mug of it in the morning instead of my one mug of...please forgive...coffee per day, or I drink it later in the day into the evening. It's fun trying to figure out which of the various flavors in this tea I'm picking up and when it's all done, I just plain like it.
Don't usually go for the flavored teas, but a big thumbs up for this one. I hope it is such a big hit that the Ministry decides to keep it in the lineup.
This tea smells and tastes wonderful. It's heady, rich, and really just gets the job done. I'm now on my 4th tin, and each time I see it in the store I panic a little that it's may only be available for a limited time. It's the my favorite of all the teas I've ever tasted. Very special.
Tea is smooth, but added essence is unsavory, it almost seems to taste of rubber. I would strongly recommend the Earl Greyer or All Day Breakfast, but this tea doesn't suit my tastes at all.
Love this blend. Hope you keep it.
A good tea with a natural creaminess. Very smooth, even for a black tea. I find it really is a celebration tea, and while it's enjoyable, I can't drink more than a cup at a time, and usually not in the same week. That's not to say it's a bad tea, it's just very different.
Just received this tea in the mail about 15 minutes ago, along with the Wild Blueberry and the Goji Raspberry Green Tea.. The Celebration is my favorite of all of the teas i've tried so far. I'm a new tea lover, and this is perfect! I am excited about trying the Blueberry!! Will buy more.. hope they keep this one for good!!
this is my favorite of all teas...and that's saying something! Not only does it have a very delicate, mouth-pleasing flavor, but it smells wonderful too. So if you don't want to actually drink a cup, one sniff of its delicious scents is like aromatherapy - good for your soul! I highly recommend this tea.
This is one of the best teas I have ever tasted! It is significantly different from other teas. Light and refreshing, but with substance. It should be offered in bags as well as loose.
I'm in crazy about this tea! I love it! The flavor is just absolutely perfect. Floral and fruity. Please please please please make this a staple product!
This tea has a lovely bouquet and taste and goes every so well with toasted English muffins spread with Greengage jam from England. Makes a lovely breakfast, mid-afternoon or bedtime snack. I enjoyed my first tin so well, I have ordered two more, even though I have quite a number of tins from The Republic of Tea. I hope this continues to be a favorite of customers and will continue to be made available on a regular basis. The people who developed this did an amazing job. Thanks again! Mikki
I'm the president of New Mexico Tech's very own Tea club. The biggest club here on campus. This tea has been one of our best editions. People love it, and always come back for more. We hope it becomes a permanent edition, so we can keep it in stalk.
This was delivered this morning and I'm just finishing my second large mug. This tea is absolutely divine! When I opened the tin I knew I was in love. It smells very strong of the grapes when opened and while brewing, but once brewed, the grape taste is not overpowering. It is a pleasant, fruity cup, with subtle floral undertones. Not overly floral, just perfect. I personally love fruit teas and this is now my new favorite! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make this a regular offering!!! It is much too wonderful to only make it once!! :)
Had this ordered for tea club, wonderful complex tea, hope it becomes a permanent edition to RoT's catalogue.
This is the most amazing tea I have ever tasted! What a unique blend of flavors and aromas! Just sipping it is a vacation in itself. I do hope that you will keep offering this, it is just too good to limit. What will we do when it's gone? You must keep such a good tea as I am sure it is a creation of "tea art".
This is a wonderful tea! Very rich and smooth and fabulous! I served it at a birthday party pairing it with a raspberry peach coconut layered sorbet dessert with fresh fruit. It was very tasty with the sweet fruit. I highly recommend this tea!
Lovely tea. The aroma of floral and white grapes is strong at first, while steeping. I can get a slight whiff even a few feet away. It does not linger once the tea leaves have been removed from steeping. It is light, clear, fresh taste and I would hope that this tea is going to be available as a regular item to buy. I have a large selection of teas from Republic of Tea and enjoy all of them, depending upon my mood. I would like to see a blackberry tea without any sage! While I like the combination, I would like to be able to choose just blackberry.
This tea is a feast for the eyes and the palate. It has a light, delicate flavor that is unlike any other tea I have tried. Personally I get multiple brews from a single basket.
This is my new favorite! Just fabulous, and I hope it becomes available all the time. I've already made two orders.
This tea is amazing!! It has a very nice and slightly floral taste! I love the wine grape taste.
I was interested in trying this tea when I saw it in the catalog. I think it is a really complex blend. The grape flavor is not overpowering and the floral notes compliment the ceylon flavor. If you do not like floral teas, this may not be up your alley. The after-taste has just a hint of champagne. I love this blend and will definitely order more.
This is by far the best tea I have ever tried. For years I have been making a cup of Republic Tea before bedtime. I have a whole cabinet in my kitchen of about 20 different flavors. Now, this is the only one that I reach for. A very complex tasting tea. It really does taste like a mixture of tea, wine, champagne, fruit and flowers. Perfect cup of tea. Must order more to last me thru the rest of the year!!
I really, really, really wanted to like this tea. I opened the tin and was met with a very 'grapey' aroma, almost like white grape juice concentrate. When brewed, the liquor is very light in color (again, reminiscent of white grape juice), and the taste was just too much like grape juice and flowers. I do not detect any black tea flavor, which is disappointing, since I found this in the black tea category. It's just not to my taste.
I can't believe how delightful this celebration tea is. I have been sipping cup after cup. It is such a uniquely beautiful fragrance and flavor. It is truly worthy of selecting this tea blend to celebrate 20 years of bringing us 1 wonderful tea after another. I must order more immediately.
It is exactly what they say it is, fruity and floral. Not sure what I was thinking when I ordered. I like basic tea flavors, 20 year Celebration I guess caught my attention.
I have a small shop No Worries Be Happy in the Blue Moon Gift Shops here. I like to taste the tea I am selling. I tend to personally like floral and fruitty teas. This tea to me is truly wonderful! The sweet, fruitty and floral fragrance is amazing. I like seeing the champaigne grapes and camellia tea flowers among the leaves and petals, too. Many thanks! ~Julie
This is by far, the BEST tea I've ever had! I thought it sounded interesting, so I ordered some to try, and I sure am glad! Hopefully, this will stay around for a long time!!! :)