Best of Lidl Knightsbridge Teas 2025 — 1 Clear Winner (and 5 to Skip)

I tasted six of Lidl's Knightsbridge teas (just one of the green tea's is enough to know for the rest of those) and really one is only genuinely worth your money. Here's the best of the range simplified for those who want to skim the article and the blends that I would recommend skipping:

• Peppermint & Liquorice: 5/5
• Sleep with Linden and Lavender: 3/5
• Skip these:
• Green Tea Lemon: 2/5, Lemon & Ginger: 1/5, Defence (Vit C): 1/5, Red Label: 1/5.

Peppermint & Liquorice: 5/5

This tea is generally one of the best from Lidl's Knightsbridge range. It has a big naturally sweet liquorice flavour along with peppermint as the afternote. It tastes great either hot or chilled and doesn't need any added sugar. It's perfect for the price. However, it does contain liquorice which isn't great for people who have hypertension and you should avoid excessive consumption as well.

You only need to brew it in boiling water and steep it for around 5 to 7 minutes; it's excellent when brewed strong then turned into an ice tea. It costs only £1.05 for 40 bags as of 2025.

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Sleep with Linden & Lavender: 3/5

This tea is soft, floral with a camomile and linden forward taste to it. It is pleasant but it's also super weak with a single bag. You need to use around 2 to 3 bags for its intended effect. I felt a calming effect when using 2 teabags in a mug. So, it works but you'll be burning through the box fast making it not so value for money. I suggest boiling it in water for around 8 minutes. It's priced at £1.59 for 20 bags so you can see how expensive it gets if you're using two bags each time.

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Green Tea Lemon: 2/5

This one has a super faint grassy taste to it. There's a lemon aroma to it but almost no lemon flavour at all. It disappears very fast on the palate. If you do get this; I suggest squeezing a bit of lemon into it just to boost the flavour. The green tea inside is also super weak; so, I believe this is representative of the other green teas that Lidl do in the Knightsbridge range. This is the cheapest in the range but reflective as one of the worst at £0.65 for 40 bags.

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Lemon & Ginger Tea: 1/5

The Lemon and Ginger tea is just super watery, there's no ginger heat to it even after a long steeping, the lemon is also watery. You're getting nothing from this and it's even cheaper just to grate your own ginger and add lemon to boiling water than using one of these tea bags. It costs £1.00 for 40 bags while ginger and lemon itself are not really expensive and you're getting a better drink if you make it without the tea bags.

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Defence with Vitamin C Tea: 1/5

Just like the lemon and ginger tea. This has the same issues plaguing it. It has a very muted ginger taste to it and the green tea inside has no taste to it either. Practically, this tastes like flavoured hot water and is not worth your money at all especially at £1.59 for 20 bags. There's also no spicy kick to it. They're literally selling the ginger and lemon tea at a higher price with this one.

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Red Label Tea: 1/5

This is just as bad as the Typhoo Red Label tea. It needs an extreme amount of steeping and multiple tea bags to even get any tea out of this. Yet the bags still taste horrendously tannic and hollow even after multiple bags. It's a bitter tea without any tea flavour. Not something you should even think of considering due to how bad it is. It costs around £2.79 for 240 bags.

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Conclusion

Prices are indictive of the time I bought them, they will eventually change. But the review itself, unless they change the blends entirely, are mostly going to stay the same. You, can however, get the gist of the Knightsbridge brand as not being great at all. I had more enjoyment with Lidl's Deluxe branded teas which actually have strength to them though.