I'm not a tea fanatic. Sure, if the kettle's on I'll have a go but my favorite work beverage is, by far, coffee. Even so, a few days ago a batch of Adagio teas arrived through mail. I placed the order mostly out of curiosity, due to them having so many weird flavored teas available and the samplers costing only $2 USD.

In spite of a minor confusion that caused some shipping delays, the ordering process was simple enough and getting a package from the States delivered in less than a week is a sure way of getting a repeat customer.

These are the teas that were delivered at my doorstep:

• Iced tea delight
• Earl Grey bravo
• Citron green
• White peach
• Rooibos vanilla

Except for the first one, I've already tasted all the others (actually, I'm sipping through a nice cup of rooibos vanilla as I write this) so a small review is in order.

The Earl Grey is a huge disappointment. From what I've learned the bergamot is an orange-y kind of fruit and that was what I expected. Instead I got a perfume flavored tea. Utter crap and put me on a bad mood as it was the first tea I tasted and started to second guess what the others would taste like. Score: 1, just because it's Earl Grey.

Fortunately the other day I woke up way earlier than usual and prepared a cup of the Citron green tea. Now, this is a very good and light tea. It has a very nice lime flavor, just strong enough to be something worth enjoying. I'm giving it a 3 out of 5.

By coincidence the same thing happened this morning. I got up at about 8:15AM and was looking for something light to fill an empty stomach. At such an early time of day I wasn't quite ready to step outside and go to the café so I prepared a cup of peach flavored white tea and I'm really glad I did so as it's really, really good. It's incredibly light and the strong peach after-taste is, I dare say, awesome. This is my favorite out of the four. Score: 4.

As I wrote before, I'm now enjoying the rooibos vanilla. I never had tasted a rooibos tea before, nor a vanilla flavored one. I'm a fan of vanilla ice cream so I had high expectations that were totally met. One of the reviewers mentioned the fact that rooibos tastes like medicine but I can't spot that taste, only the nice vanilla. I'm giving it a 3.5. It's not as good as the peach white but it's definitely better than the citron green.

And so I'm ending this small tea review, but not without mentioning the mint tea Ruben brought to the office some weeks ago, which kickstarted this small tea adventure. The mint tea is awesome to have on those hot summer days and you should have it really hot as it gets the best flavor out of the mint. But don't prepare lots of it as after about an hour it starts to taste really bad.

All in all, Adagio has a very nice thing going on and their expanding their business to Europe. Although I'll probably keep ordering stuff from the States due to the low dollar price, I really hope they can get some traction over this side of the pond and start having a bit more of variety on their European store. Go check them out.