1120 Tasting Notes
My first note about a flowering tea! You might have guessed that I used the “random pretty and relevant word” method of username choosing rather than naming myself after my favorite tea.
The main draw of this tea is definitely the appearance, and it is rather pretty. However, it’s rather tasty as well — I’d call it vegetal (and despite the several flowers that are present, there’s no real floral taste). As I tend to do with flowering teas, I never took the tea out of the glass, and as I’ve come to appreciate in others, that doesn’t hurt the flavor except at the very bottom of the glass. Perhaps because of this quality, the taste isn’t horribly complex; I would choose this only if I was in the mood to watch my tea blossom, since there are plenty of more typical teas that taste just as good if not better.
A straightforward blend: black tea, peppermint, and peppermint flavoring. It tastes just as you might expect, although the mint provides a lot of coolness and yet a fairly mild flavor.
This would be a solid choice for fellow fans of minty tea, but it doesn’t particularly stand out as anything special.
The provided image of this is most definitely, as cereal boxes say, enlarged to show texture. That’s not a complaint, but an observation; don’t expect huge chunks of pears as it might seem in the photo.
Anyway, I’m not getting a lot of caramel in this cup — or a lot of rooibos, for that matter. It simply tastes of sweet pears with a touch of honey, something that feels odder to have in liquid form than I would expect. I’m going to try using more leaf (do you still say that when it’s rooibos?) next time, since in the past I’ve had good luck with doing that with flavored rooibos.
