Raspberry Black Tea

Bright raspberry brings sweet-tart berry character to a smooth Ceylon black tea, with real raspberry fruit and leaves adding botanical depth to this refreshing, medium-bodied blend.

The Experience

If you want a raspberry tea that still drinks like black tea, this is an easy choice.

Raspberry Black Tea starts with Ceylon black tea and layers it with raspberry fruit, raspberry leaves, and natural flavor. The raspberry is recognizable and lively—sweet enough to feel juicy, with enough tartness to keep the cup fresh rather than candy-like.

The Ceylon tea underneath provides medium body and gentle briskness, giving the fruit structure and leaving a cleaner finish than you might expect from a berry-flavored tea. It's equally comfortable in two roles: warm and aromatic when served hot, bright and refreshing when poured over ice.

Tasting Notes

• Top: Ripe raspberry • Bright berry
  
• Mid: Smooth Ceylon black tea • Sweet-tart fruit
  
• Finish: Clean • Gently brisk • Lingering raspberry
  
• Body: Medium

Why You’ll Love It

Choose Raspberry Black Tea if you enjoy recognizable berry flavor without a heavy dessert profile. The combination of raspberry fruit, raspberry leaves, and natural flavor gives the blend a fuller raspberry character, while Ceylon black tea keeps the cup grounded. It's particularly appealing if you:

• Love raspberry and other red-fruit flavors
• Want a fruit tea with the body and caffeine of black tea
• Prefer bright fruit over creamy or caramel flavors
• Enjoy teas that work equally well hot or iced

Tea & Ingredients

Tea Type: Flavored Black Tea
Base Tea: Ceylon Black Tea
Flavor Profile: Raspberry • Sweet-Tart • Bright
Ingredients: Black tea, raspberry leaves, raspberry fruit, natural flavor
Caffeine: Yes
Body: Medium

How to Brew

Use approximately 1 heaping teaspoon per 8 oz / 237 ml of water at 212°F / 100°C. Steep for 3–4 minutes, then adjust to taste. We recommend trying your first cup straight. This lets you taste the contrast between juicy raspberry and the gentle briskness of the black tea.

For iced tea, brew slightly stronger before pouring over ice. Taste before sweetening—a little sugar can make raspberry taste even juicier, but this blend has plenty of fruit character on its own.

Perfect For

A refreshing choice for afternoon tea, brunch, summer iced tea, or anyone who enjoys bright berry flavors. Pair it with dark chocolate, shortbread, lemon cake, cheesecake, scones, berry tarts, or vanilla pastries.

Tea Expert Note: What's Creating the Raspberry Flavor?

This blend contains both raspberry fruit and raspberry leaves, but they don't contribute the same flavor.

Raspberry fruit contributes to the fruity character, while raspberry leaves are more botanical and don't taste like concentrated raspberries. The blend also contains natural flavor, which helps create its consistent, recognizable raspberry aroma.

We make that distinction because we want the ingredient list and the tasting experience to tell the same story: this is black tea blended with real raspberry ingredients and natural flavor, not a tea whose berry flavor comes solely from the visible fruit pieces.

Hot or Iced?

• Hot, the Ceylon tea is more noticeable, and the raspberry feels rounder and more aromatic.
• Iced, raspberry moves forward and becomes especially bright and refreshing, while the black tea provides enough structure to keep the cup from tasting thin.

If you normally drink sweetened fruit tea, try this one iced without sugar first. You may be surprised by how much perceived sweetness comes simply from its raspberry aroma.

Packaging: Our loose teas are sold by the ounce and packaged in food-grade resealable bags.

Explore Our Fruit-Forward Black Teas

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→ Try next if: you prefer softer, rounder stone-fruit sweetness

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