Tao Tea

Product Type:Tea: Sweetened; Container: 16.9 fl oz plastic (500 ml)
BevNET Review: Tao Tea's Grapefruit Green Tea is a great tasting fruit flavored green tea. The grapefruit juice and sugar combine to hide the grassy taste of the green tea and also give the product a tangy body. The packaging is definitely best suited for ethnic markets and we definitely question its mainstream potential. Still, the product tastes quite good so we encourage you to give it a try. It can definitely hold its own against competing Asian teas.Reviewed on: 7/21/2005

Product Type:Juice: Juice Drink; Container: 16.9 fl oz plastic (500 ml)
BevNET Review: This is a pretty good juice mix; the grapefruit juice, while not overly fresh tasting, does have a pleasing bite and that’s nicely enhanced by the lemon and sugar flavors. The shrink-wrap packaging has a solid Asian influence that should appeal to kids and adults who are into those kinds of drinks; we were a bit confused by the label, although we did enjoy its bright yellow coloring. Still, it might be a little too hard to move off mainstream shelves.Reviewed on: 7/15/2005

Product Type:Tea: Sweetened; Container: 16.9 fl oz plastic (500 ml)
BevNET Review: This is a really pleasant tasting green tea drink – there’s clean tea flavor up front, and a sweet lemon finish that really puts it into the top tier of RTD Iced Green Teas. The green tea flavor manages to be distinct without carrying too many brackish notes. The addition of honey doesn’t add much to the flavor profile, and it leaves a bit of a cloying aftertaste, but not enough to put it into the artificial range. In all, this is a great-tasting tea. But the packaging resembles something out of Pokemon; that’s going to make it hard for many mainstream consumers to take it seriously. But we bet Blade Runner fans will love it.Reviewed on: 7/15/2005