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My first impression of this tea was that it had quite a strong medicinal smell when I opened the box, which is not particularly pleasant. It reminded me of cough lozenges. I couldn’t quite figure out if that was the rooibos, the lemon or the ginger. But I gave the tea a chance and had it with a dash of milk (which I wouldn’t normally do with a tea that includes lemon). Upon googling rooibos tea I think it might be due to the cinnamic acid it naturally contains. Luckily in this case the smell is not the same as the taste of the tea. I think it’s quite a pleasant caffeine-free alternative to regular black tea. Would like to compare it to rooibos tea without lemon & ginger.

This tea is amazing. It takes me back to my childhood with it’s distinct taste and scent of both aniseed and liquorice root. I grew up in the Netherlands where you can get “sticks” of liquorice root (zoethout) from the candy store. It looks like a brown twig of wood and you chew on it to extract the flavour. The aniseed in this tea reminds me of another Dutch treat “gestampte muisjes” which is a sweet powdery topping you can put on your sliced bread. The tea is sweet and full of flavour. I drink it when I crave something sweet without the calories.