Wow – this tastes exactly like Lemon Chiffon from Della Terra.
I have to wonder if NecessiTeas may actually be sourcing this tea (or a pre flavoured rooibos base, at the very least) from the same supplier that Della Terra sourced theirs from; East Indies Tea Company. The flavour is just so dead on that it feels like a very real possibility to me. Plus I know from when we did the East Indies group order, years back, here on Steepster that both Lemon and Lime Chiffon were catalog blends carried by East Indies, meaning that any tea company could go and purchase them for their stores…
Thing is, I don’t think this has the exact same visual as lemon chiffon – which is why I think that NecessiTeas might but doing additional blending with a purchased “base” tea. That’s not a super uncommon practice; unique visuals sell tea better (especially when you’re selling online using a picture over in person where you can smell the teas) so sometimes tea companies will buy a catalog blend but add something to it to beef up the visuals and make it a little less obvious it’s a catalog blend.
9/10 times more large, chunky ingredients don’t actually contribute a significant enough flavour to drastically change the overall profile of a tea – so it’s an easy enough “trick” to do…
But this tastes amazing – don’t let my analysis let you think that I’m not enjoying every bit of this tea.
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Oooh! Good to know, I loved Lemon Chiffon.
Interesting. I’ve tried a handful of lemon rooibos’ before, but never had one taste as good as Lemon Chiffon.
East Indies Lemon Souffle is Blue Cornflowers, Calendula Petals, Flavouring, Green Rooibos, Honeybush, Lemon Peel, and Red Rooibos, so it does look a bit different. I think the lack of honeybush would throw me as it not being the same base blend (would be easy enough for them to add the lemongrass, but hard to remove honeybush and blue cornflower petals out). Maybe the rooibos/green rooibos base with the citrus is creating enough of a “flavor match”.
Oooh! Good to know, I loved Lemon Chiffon.
Interesting. I’ve tried a handful of lemon rooibos’ before, but never had one taste as good as Lemon Chiffon.
East Indies Lemon Souffle is Blue Cornflowers, Calendula Petals, Flavouring, Green Rooibos, Honeybush, Lemon Peel, and Red Rooibos, so it does look a bit different. I think the lack of honeybush would throw me as it not being the same base blend (would be easy enough for them to add the lemongrass, but hard to remove honeybush and blue cornflower petals out). Maybe the rooibos/green rooibos base with the citrus is creating enough of a “flavor match”.