Next up from the new Spring/Wellness collection.
Personally I was disappointed when I saw we were using GABA green tea rather than oolong for this blend – partly ‘cause I just usually don’t like green tea but also because I think a more exotic/tropical fruity oolong would have been more diversifying to the current tea wall line up while still tasting really delicious. There are so many fruity green teas; and I mean one of the other teas in this collection is already a fruity green so I just think that would have been the more interesting choice…
That said, I kind of fucking love this blend. I definitely did NOT expect to, but when I cracked open the first bag of this to fill the fresh wall tin I was blown away with how yummy and fruity it smelled. I mean, total guava notes but also a lot of other really enticing, rich fruity aromas like the red currant. I never would have thought to pair red currants and guava, but it works.
Taste wise, this is fruity and sweet while still having good balance/overall smoothness to it and not tasting cloying or artificial at all. It’s got some lovely guava notes, but also a good mix of sweet orange and red currant that all play together in a way that deepens the flavour of each fruit as an individual tasting note and makes the juiciness/ripeness kind of pop a bit more in the top notes – especially the orange. Totally the more elegant, more put together version of Guava Cadabra, which is also delicious but pretty sweet/juice like. And I don’t mind the green tea base at all. It works with the delicateness/smoothness of it all. I really, really love blends that can be soft and delicate but still flavourful; it almost feels like an oxymoron but it exists and is tantalizing.
Possibly my favourite of the new teas; though Lemon Cayenna Cleanse is up there too.
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