White Tea Sangria {Mighty Leaf Tea Giveaway!}
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 2:45PM in Brunch, Giveaways, Ice Cream, Product Reviews, beverages, desserts, fruit, opinion, recipes The Giveaway is now closed. The randomly picked winner is #61, Jessyca. Congrats to Jessyca, and thank you to all of you that entered and tweeted! Stay tuned for more giveaways.
I love tea (especially iced!), and I love Sangria, so it just seems right to put them together, doesn’t it? Mighty Leaf Tea, in my opinion, is the best tea for your buck. The flavor blends they offer, combined with the sheer quality of the tea leaves make it worth spending a little extra than you would for the teas in the grocery store. If you have any doubts, check out this older post of mine for just some of the benefits of Mighty Leaf Teas, and tea in general!
Oh, what the heck, I’ll just add an excerpt from that post here for your convenience:
It’s impossible to over brew their (Mighty Leaf) teas, because the tea bag tags tell you how long to brew each cup. So that means no more bitter tea--just a perfect cup, every time!
I wasn’t familiar with Mighty Leaf Tea, but eager to find out more about them. Here are just a few facts:
- They painstakingly handcraft their artisan whole leaf tea blends.
- The co-founders have created an industry shaping process-- handcrafted, hand stitched, silken Tea Pouches. This creation set a whole new industry standard with 9 similar mesh pouches being introduced within 2 years.
- Co-founders Gary Shinner and Jill Portman ran their San Francisco tea house, Tea & Company, for three years before deciding to close up shop and launch Mighty Leaf Tea. In those three years, they listened to what customers wanted and decided to fill that niche, not just locally, but internationally.
- In 2009, Mighty Leaf Tea was selected as the official tea house purveyor for the James Beard Foundation.
- Also in 2009, Mighty Leaf Tea launched it’s own global giving foundation, The Mighty Leaf Tea Foundation. They promote and encourage sustainable farming and production methods for tea growing regions around the world. They also foster long term prosperity for artisans and their local communities through monetary program support.
Besides being incredibly delicious and versatile (yes, versatile-many recipes make great use of tea!), tea is also extremely beneficial to your health! Some of the health benefits are:
- Stress reduction
- Weight management
- Healthy teeth and fresh breath
- Battling colds and flu (See? I told you!)
- Heart disease and stroke
- Cancer prevention
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See? Tea is not only delicious to drink, it’s good for you, as well! In my house, we drink iced tea all year long. Even in the dead of winter! I drink it hot in the cold weather, too, but for me, there’s nothing as refreshing as a glass of ice cold tea. I actually read once that iced tea was the best thing you could drink to refresh yourself on very hot days!
If you haven’t clicked and read my previous Mighty Leaf Tea post, I’ll let you in on something that’s a lifesaver for me when it comes to hot tea: when I’m sick with throat issues and a bad cough, the one thing that helps me immensely is piping hot tea with honey. It comforts a sore throat and eases an annoying cough. I prescribe that to everyone, so if you know me on Facebook or Twitter and you mention a sore throat or cough, you may hear me telling you to drink your hot tea with honey!
Tea is also wonderful for using in recipes. I know you’ve all seen cookie and cake recipes using it. It also lends a fantastic hint of tea flavor to your sangria! Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think there are any rules to making sangria. Fruit, check. Wine, check. Make it a wine that you like! By the same token, use whatever fruits you like. Want fizz? Add soda water or your favorite flavored soda. Need a little sweetener? Sugar, honey, agave, etc. Chill it all and enjoy!
Mighty Leaf White Orchard Tea Sangria
Makes one pitcher
4 Mighty Leaf White Orchard Tea Bags
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 tbsp honey
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh mint
6 oz fresh raspberries
3 small peaches, peeled, pitted, and sliced
1 large orange, sliced
1 large orange, juice of
1 lime, sliced
a handful of fresh pineapple chunks
1 (750 ml) bottle of white wine (I chose one with hints of citrus)
Brew the four tea bags in the boiling water for about 5 minutes. Stir in the honey and pour into a large (2 qt) pitcher. Set aside.
Lightly bruise the mint. I did this by putting the leaves on a cutting board and smashing them with a wooden spoon. Add them to the pitcher. Toss in all of the fruit, plus the orange juice, then add the wine.
Stir it all together and put it in the fridge to let the flavors mingle. Serve cold, over ice. Don't forget to enjoy all of the fruit in there after it soaks up all of the flavors!
I also made a red wine sangria a few days later, using Mighty Leaf Tea and some assorted fruit, but, um, we didn’t get any pictures of that one. Ha!
You can also use the tea to make ice cream! This is a coconut milk ice cream that I flavored with Sunburst Green Iced Tea from the new Mighty Leaf Iced Tea Collection:
Coconut Green Tea Nectarine Ice Cream
Special offer! Right now, you can all enjoy a 15 percent site-wide discount at Mighty Leaf Tea! Use this coupon code when checking out: SUMMERTEA15
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{Giveaway!}
My friends at Mighty Leaf Tea have prepared a fabulous giveaway for one of you! They want to be your summer tea sommelier – from selecting the perfect tea, to helping you understand the brewing process, and to creating the most delicious tea mocktails.
Win: A Summer Brewing Kit.
One of you will receive a box of each of their new teas, as well as a Flash Iced Tea Brewer which allows you to get iced cold tea in just minutes. (Total value is nearly $70.)
o Sunburst Green Iced Tea: A cool and vibrant fresh brewed iced green tea, it delivers the crisp taste of sun ripened oranges and sweet citrus that brighten mountain-grown Chinese green tea leaves. The lowest in caffeine among all four flavors.
o Ginger Peach Iced Tea: A blissful and lightly sweet fresh-brewed iced tea, this black leaf tea is infused with sun-swelled peaches and delicate ginger.
o Calypso Mango Iced Tea: A sweet and cooling fresh-brewed iced tea with an indulging blend of luscious mango and tropical fruit that drench South Indian black tea leaves.
o Organic Black Iced Tea: Made of refreshingly rich and smooth South Indian organic black tea leaves that are hand-picked on the dewy slopes of the Nilgiri mountains, these vibrant organic tea leaves unleash a fresh iced tea with dark amber hue.
Plus, a Flash Iced Tea Brewer which allows you to get iced cold tea in just minutes!
Three ways to enter:
1) “Like” Mighty Leaf Tea on Facebook so you’ll always know what’s up and be the first to know about special offers! Come back here and leave a comment telling me that you did.
2) Which one of the new tea flavors are you most anxious to get your hands on? Let me know in another comment! I can tell you--they’re all fantastic!*
Additional entry:
3) Tweet about this giveaway and leave another comment letting me know that you tweeted.
Be sure that you leave a valid email address or other method of contacting you so I can let you know if you've won! I’ll choose a random winner (US only) on
Wednesday, August 3rd. (August already?! Ack!)
Good luck!
*I was given a box of each of the new teas to sample at no cost to me. I am not being paid for my opinions on the product.
Reader Comments (98)
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Ginger peach iced tea is one of my favorite things in the whole world!
I would love to try the ginger peach!
I already like MIghty Tea Leaf on Facebook!
I would like to try the Ginger-Peach Iced Tea for sure!
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I'd love to try the Ginger Peach!
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YAY!! They sell this at my local market so I'm picking up some next time we grocery shop. The calypso mango sounds fantastic. And that tea brewer and pitcher...hellloooo! I need that ASAP. I see it's out of stock on their website so I've got my fingers crossed I win.
I liked them on FaceBook!
I like mighty tea on facebook.
I'm most excited to try the calypso mango iced tea. And also that coconut - greentea - nectarine ice cream - wow that looks so yummy!
I "liked" MIghty Leaf Tea on FB.
Sunburst Green sounds delightful to me.
I would love to try the Calypso Mango
I would love to try the Sunburst Green Iced Tea!
The Calypso Mango sounds delicious.
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ginger peach sounds so delicious!!
I liked Mighty Leaf Tea on Facebook!
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I think the mango tea sounds fabulous -- never tried anything like that! Yum.
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I would like to try Calypso Mango
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Ginger Peach for me please!!
The Sunburst Green Tea. Oh yum! Love green tea.
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I'd love to try the Calypso Mango Iced Tea!
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Liked on FB
I like Mighty Leaf Tea on Facebook.
I'm thirsty and that drink looks SO good; heck even without the wine (don't ruin my rep and tell anyone I said that, OK?). I know my water is just not going to cut it now and it's so your fault. :)
I am most excited about Calypso Mango!
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gorgeous Elle - Ginger Peach all the way baby!!!
I liked them on FB. I think my husband would like to try the mango tea.
I would love to try the Ginger Peach. I can already imagine the heavenly smell of it wafting from a hot cup in my hands. mmmm
Fantastic giveaway, I'd love to try their tea. Liked them on FB!
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I would love to try the Sunburst Green Ice Tea!
I think that peach sounds pretty darn good. We like to use tea to flavor apple sauce and this one would be great.
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the ginger peach iced tea sounds amazingly refreshing during this crazy summer heat! :)