Loose Leaf Flavored Tea: Fruit & Dessert

Fruit Flavored Teas

The most popular category in the collection - fruit flavored teas deliver immediate, recognizable appeal to the broadest range of tea drinkers. The natural sweetness of fruit character over a quality Ceylon base produces flavored teas that taste genuinely of the fruit rather than of flavoring compounds.

• Peach Tea (scored 95, from 11¢/cup) - ripe, soft peach over the Ceylon base. One of the consistently highest-rated flavored teas in the entire catalog and the one that most frequently converts new Adagio customers into regulars. Cold brewed overnight, Peach tea becomes one of the most naturally sweet iced teas available without a gram of added sugar.
• Mango Tea (scored 93, from 11¢/cup) - bold tropical sweetness on a clean Ceylon base. Hot or cold brewed, it produces a vivid, naturally sweet cup that tastes genuinely tropical rather than artificially mango-flavored.
• Coconut Tea (scored 94) - a tropical, slightly creamy character that makes it one of the most naturally distinctive flavored teas in the collection. Works beautifully as an iced tea and equally well hot on a cold morning.
• Raspberry Tea - bright, tart, and vivid. One of the most visually striking cold brews in the catalog - the raspberry character produces a naturally ruby-hued iced tea that requires nothing added.
• Candy Apple Tea - the sweet, slightly tart character of a fairground candy apple in loose leaf tea form. One of the most surprising and beloved flavored teas in the seasonal range.
• Apricot Tea, Blueberry Tea, Strawberry Tea, Lemon Tea, and additional fruit varieties covering the full stone fruit, berry, and citrus spectrum.

Dessert & Indulgent Flavored Teas

The most distinctive and highest-scoring segment of the collection - dessert-inspired loose leaf flavored teas that taste like their namesake desserts without any of the calories.

• Chocolate Truffle Tea (scored 91, from 11¢/cup) - real cocoa nibs, chocolate pieces, and cocoa powder blended into the Ceylon base. 100% milk-free. Brews a genuinely chocolatey cup that rivals hot chocolate as an evening treat and tastes unmistakably of real chocolate rather than flavoring. Nothing in a commercial teabag range approximates it.
• Butterscotch Tea (scored 95, from 11¢/cup) - warm, caramel-sweet, and deeply indulgent without any dairy content. One of the highest-rated flavored teas in the collection and consistently one of the most popular repeat purchases. The right afternoon tea for anyone who wants their cup to feel like a small reward.
• Birthday Cake Tea - a festive, vanilla-sweet flavored tea that has become one of the most gifted individual teas in the Adagio catalog. The flavor is exactly what the name promises: warm vanilla cake with a hint of sweetness that makes it genuinely fun to drink and genuinely good to give.
• Cream Tea - smooth vanilla-cream over the Ceylon base, naturally sweet and exceptionally versatile. The flavored tea that converts the most chai and coffee drinkers who want something warming and indulgent without spice or caffeine anxiety.
• Almond Tea (scored 95) - warm, nutty almond character that sits between dessert and spiced teas. One of the most sophisticated flavored teas in the collection - not immediately showy but deeply satisfying across a full pot.

Spiced & Warming Flavored Teas

Spiced flavored teas are the strongest seasonal performers in the collection - consistently the most-searched tea varieties in autumn and winter - but the best of them work year-round for anyone who prefers warming character in their daily cup.

• Sweet Cinnamon Spice Tea (scored 94, from 11¢/cup) - a warming, naturally sweet cinnamon blend that performs as strongly in summer as in winter. The most versatile wholesale spiced tea is equally the most versatile retail spiced tea: it fits every season and every occasion where a warming, lightly sweet cup is welcome.
• Pumpkin Spice Tea (scored 91) - the most-searched individual tea flavor in September and October. Adagio's Pumpkin Spice is a genuine spice blend rather than artificial pumpkin spice flavoring - cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger over the Ceylon base, smelling like the season from the moment the pouch is opened.
• Cinnamon Plum Tea and additional spiced varieties for anyone who wants warming complexity beyond single-spice expressions.

Floral & Botanical Flavored Teas

Floral flavored teas are the most naturally photogenic in the collection and some of the most distinctive - the combination of tea structure and botanical aromatics produces cups that are both beautiful and genuinely interesting to drink.

• Summer Rose Tea (scored 94, from 11¢/cup) - a genuine rose-forward floral blend on the Ceylon base that achieves the balance most floral teas attempt and few manage: clearly rose-flavored without tipping into perfumed or soapy territory. Cold brewed, Summer Rose produces a naturally floral, lightly sweet iced tea that photographs as beautifully as it tastes.
• Lavender Tea - the most delicate floral flavored tea in the collection. Lavender's naturally calming aromatic character over the Ceylon base produces an afternoon cup that bridges the gap between a wellness herbal tea and a full-bodied flavored black tea.
• April in Paris Tea - a complex floral blend with the layered character that single-flower teas can't achieve. For anyone who loves jasmine tea and wants something with more dimensions, April in Paris is the step up.

Brisk and bright - Ceylon's naturally citrus-forward, clean character amplifies fruit flavors rather than competing with them. A peach flavoring over a strong Assam base fights with the malt; the same flavoring over Ceylon lets the peach lead while the tea provides structure.

Versatile - Ceylon works equally well with fruit, dessert, spiced, and floral additions. It doesn't have the dominant malt of Assam or the grassiness of green tea that can limit flavor pairing options.

Whole leaf extraction - the whole-leaf format releases flavor compounds gradually across the steeping rather than flooding the cup immediately. The flavoring and the tea develop together, producing a more integrated and more complex cup than any flat-bag alternative.

Flavor persistence. Natural flavor compounds are more structurally complex than artificial alternatives and release more gradually from the leaf during steeping. A naturally flavored tea produces a cup where the flavor is present in the first steep, the second, and often the third - artificial flavoring coats the leaf surface and washes off almost entirely in the first steep.

Flavor authenticity. Natural peach flavoring tastes like peach. Natural chocolate flavoring combined with actual cocoa nibs (as in Chocolate Truffle) tastes like chocolate. Artificial alternatives approximate the flavor at the most basic level - close enough to name but not close enough to satisfy. The difference is noticeable immediately in comparison and becomes more apparent over multiple steepings.

Water temperature - fully boiling (212°F/100°C). Ceylon black tea requires boiling water; the natural and botanical flavoring additions don't diminish it.

Leaf quantity - one teaspoon (2g) per 8oz cup as a starting point. Flavored teas are often stronger in flavor per gram than unflavored teas, so the standard quantity works well.

Steep time - 3–4 minutes. Dessert teas (Chocolate Truffle, Butterscotch) benefit from the full 4 minutes; fruit teas (Peach, Mango) are excellent at 3 minutes.

With milk - most fruit and floral flavored teas (Peach, Summer Rose, Raspberry) are better without milk. Dessert and spiced teas (Chocolate Truffle, Butterscotch, Sweet Cinnamon Spice) take a small splash of milk well.

Multiple steepings - quality loose leaf flavored teas yield 2 good steepings from a single measure. The second steeping is often more integrated than the first - the initial intensity softens into something more balanced.

Loose Leaf Flavored Tea as a Gift

Loose leaf flavored tea is one of the most consistently well-received gift categories in the Adagio catalog - specific enough to feel considered, accessible enough for any recipient, and available across every budget from individual pouches at $6–$9 to curated gift sets. The Flavor Trilogy boxes at $14 are the strongest flavored tea gifts in the collection: three complementary flavored teas around a single theme - fruit, dessert, or seasonal - in a presentation that arrives looking like a real gift without any additional wrapping.

For anyone who wants to give a flavored tea that will genuinely surprise and delight: Chocolate Truffle and Butterscotch together in a custom gift box make the most unexpectedly impressive pair in the collection. The combination of the most chocolatey non-chocolate drink available and the best caramel-sweet tea in the catalog is a gift that recipients talk about. From 11¢/cup. Free shipping on qualifying orders.

Buy Loose Leaf Flavored Tea Online

Browse all 48 loose leaf flavored teas above - fruit teas, dessert teas, spiced teas, floral blends, and seasonal favorites, all on a fine Ceylon black tea base, blended in-house using natural flavors and ingredients, from 11 cents a cup. Free shipping on qualifying orders. Buy loose leaf flavored tea online and have it delivered from Adagio's New Jersey warehouse within one business day. Also available in pyramid teabag format and as cold brew iced flavored teas.