★★★☆☆
This vanilla is a bit too subtle for me. I prefer the stronger flavor of the vanilla black tea (decaf and regular).
Rich, warm vanilla with the honeyed aroma and gentle toasty quality of Honeybush herb from South Africa.
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This vanilla is a bit too subtle for me. I prefer the stronger flavor of the vanilla black tea (decaf and regular).
This tea has an excellent flavor. I infused it in butter and use it to make the best spice cookies ever.
We enjoy blending different teas together, and the Honeybush Vanilla tea provides a great base for pairing with fruity, nutty, or spicy teas. It adds a subtle sweetness and creaminess that elevates any tea to dessert status.
Delicious! A sweet treat that is very nice as an after dinner palate cleanser.
I am newly caffeine free due to health reasons and this is the tea that is most like the caffeine-filled tea I usually drink. It's great with or without creamer and really hits the spot!
So glad i finally found this tea. Teavana used to carry something similar and i finally drank the last of my stash. Now that i know this is so good, i wont have to be so stingy!
Tasty cup, though I can't tell the difference between Honeybush and Rooibos
Very nice tea, if you like honey bush varieties and vanilla it is worth trying. I still prefer some of the other honey bush flavors more but this great if you're looking for a simpler flavor than the Honeybush blueberry pancake or banana nut
I love Rooibos in general and true to this type of tea this flavor was as expected. For a stronger taste I steep double the suggested amount. This would be a great iced tea! Love it and will order again.
Great base tea for making our own custom blends. This goes really well with many things.
We like it with cream, caramel or nut flavors.
The rest of the family enjoyed this. I am not a fan of rooibos, and the honeybush is certainly less pronounced in its finish, so it is preferable to the Rooibos Vanilla.
Great tea. I absolutely love it
This is a nice subtly sweet tea. I mostly use this to add some sweetness to other blends, but it's good by itself, too.
This is really good. This is great when I want the flavor of a black tea with cream, but don't want the caffeine. It makes for a really good bed-time tea on a cold night.
A very good herbal, perfect for cozying up before bed without having to deal with any adverse effects of caffeine. It s finer than most teas I've tried so it tends to leave a good bit of leaf in the cup, even when using an infuser with very fine mesh, but that's just what you get with red tea.
Beautiful tea with. Nice vanilla flavor paired perfectly with a naturally sweet tea. I love mine really sweet so I add half a pack of stevia to mine which makes this a super sweet treat with no calories or caffeine. Perfect for a nice nighttime tea.
So good! I love to add a little bit of honey and some oatmilk to it too. It doesn’t necessarily need the honey though because it already has a natural sweetness to it in my opinion
I have liked all of the honeybush teas so far! The vanilla in this complements the slightly sweet honeybush well. I had this both hot and cold and it's great. I think this will be a good one to mix with other blends for a sweet vanilla addition.
Very, very mellow and amazing. Highly recommend sweetening it with splenda or honey.
My go to for a naturally caffeine free brew. The vanilla is not too overpowering.
Just a fantastic, generic 'warm' tea. The vanilla flavor is subtle without sweetener but with almost makes the flavor creamy. I like to accent this with a flavored, local honey to variety. I could see this blending very well with any other tea.
This was my first taste of honeybush, and I am quite pleased! It has a light, sweet nuttiness. I am usually hesitant to try vanilla teas, because I often find the vanilla flavor overpowering and off-putting. Not so here - the vanilla was light and inviting!
I was a huge Teavana fan and loved this tea. But, I find this blend to be a bit lacking in taste. I tried various cup sizes: a mug, tea cup...and even tried steeping for shorter and longer periods of time, but it seems to be missing the warm, robust vanilla flavor I remember. I really wanted to love it...but I had to give it 3 stars.
This is my favorite vanilla; it s great on its own but also blends well without giving it the funky taste some other vanilla flavored ones add. I like it a lot.
It goes well as an add in with other teas it a nice gentle flavor on its own.
My office bought a pound of each of the components to make the Double Rainbow blend in bulk. We decided our blend (we had no idea what the actual ratios awere) tasted awesome and each of the three components were good on their own as well.
This tea is delicious. The vanilla tones are perfect!!
Great flavor...appreciate the subtle hints of vanilla in a yummy honeybush.
Quality tea. Smells like cherry pipe tobacco in the bag. Once steeped, there’s a nuttiness and a stone fruitiness to the flavor. Nice with sugar and cream, too.
This is a really good quality tea. I don’t like sugar in my tea and use this to sweeten some teas. I usually don’t drink it on its own.
I love this tea so much!! It's easily one of my favorites and tastes so warm and pleasant!
Very warm and tasty! Just what you want from a vanilla tea.
New fan of honeybush especially compared to rooibos. I didn't think the vanilla really tasted like vanilla from other tea shops. Fortunately adagio has other 5 star honeybush (banana nut and hazelnut).
Tastes good on the first brew, but the second is very disappointing and weak. I prefer the rooibos vanilla for hot brews.
In the bag, this smells like a vanilla cupcake. The tea itself has a natural sweetness to it and a mild vanilla flavor; it doesn't have the strong qualities of rooibos, just a milder herbal tinge. It's inoffensive for a rooibos-style herbal tea, and many might find it quite delicious, but (as someone with a professed aversion to red rooibos), it wasn't quite good enough to win me over.
I love vanilla, and this one is nice for an herbal because the honeybush doesn’t compete as much with the vanilla as the rooibos does. The vanilla rooibos is also a really nice herbal vanilla herbal tea.
A nice light sweet tea. The vanilla is a light flavor not too overpowering. Good cup of tea and I bet it would taste amazing when paired with vanilla ice cream or chocolate chip cookies.
Honeybush vanilla is a really nice herbal! This was my first time having it by itself and I can see why it’s popular.
Super mellow, surprisingly it tastes more caramel-y than vanilla-y. I sweetened it with just a bit of honey!
Nice smooth slightly sweet tea. Perfect for a bedtime tea to wash away your day.
Tried this as part of the communiTEA. I’m really starting to like honeybush more and more. Nice low key vanilla flavor!
Well I could drink a thousand cups of this. It's light and smooth and sweet without anything added.
Ok. Seems like a good base, but I like more vanilla... and more flavor overall.
The vanilla is wonderfully simple, and I love that this is a caffeine-free option. The honeybush is smooth and sweet.
I like this tea. It isnaturally sweet, and has a soothing quality. The vanilla compliments the honeybush nicely.
It reminds me of the vanilla candy sticks that you dip into a flavored powdered: sweet vanilla with a bit of tartness.
I received this as part of CommuniTEA and was surprised how much I liked it! It has a very mild and nice scent and flavor, and you can definitely taste the vanilla.
This one is just okay. It's good, but not going out of my way for it. A nice, mild tea but kind of, well vanilla. Usually i like vanilla, but this tea tasted like nothing until i added honey, then a few flavor notes came out. I sampled this Tea as part of the CommuniTEA September box.
Wow, do I like this tea! It's earthy and warm in the best possible way. The vanilla isn't an in-your-face-extract type, but rather something that complements the herbal notes of the honeybush, bringing out an almost savory, bready/cookie flavor in the cup. This is a prime example of why I prefer honeybush to rooibos. (5 mins @ 212 F, 2 drops EZ-Sweetz)
Mild vanilla and caramel notes. Tasty, a nice after dinner tea!