Chocolate Orange Rooibos

Tea type
Rooibos Tea
Ingredients
Orange Wedges, Organic Cacao Nibs, Organic Natural Flavors (Vegan), Organic Red Rooibos, Organic Vanilla Beans
Flavors
Chocolate, Honey, Orange, Cocoa, Orange Zest, Candy, Citrus, Smooth, Sweet, Vanilla, Woody, Cream, Medicinal, Nutty, Rooibos, Dark Chocolate, Fruity, Wood
Sold in
Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Organic, Vegan
Edit tea info Last updated by 52Teas
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 7 min, 45 sec 15 g 21 oz / 627 ml

From Our Community

1 Image

2 Want it Want it

7 Own it Own it

20 Tasting Notes View all

From 52teas

Tea of the Week for October 2, 2017!

At one point, Frank created a Chocolate Orange Honeybush. To be honest, I don’t really remember it – although I did review it and after reading my review, it would appear that I did enjoy it. Sadly, reading the review didn’t help me to remember the tea. So that blend was in no way my inspiration for this blend.

My inspiration for this blend is a love for the flavor combination of chocolate and orange. They go together so well. And when I began to consider the base I’d use for this flavor combination, rooibos seemed to be a natural choice. Granted, rooibos is seldom a ‘natural choice’ for me as it is rarely my first choice for any tea – but I felt that the sweet, nutty, somewhat woodsy flavor of organic rooibos would work well with the flavors of chocolate and orange.

So I started with some organic rooibos and added lots of cacao shells and nibs, some dried orange segments and some vanilla. I didn’t want the vanilla to be a strong, independent flavor, but instead, I wanted it to lend a creamy element to the cuppa – something to lighten the sometimes “dark chocolate” taste of the cacao shells and nibs, and something that would soften the bright orange notes just a little.

And – WOWZA! This is fantastic! There is a strong chocolate note, a creaminess and a sweet orange flavor that starts out kind of subtle but continues to develop as I sip. Nice!

organic ingredients: rooibos, cacao shells, cacao nibs, oranges, vanilla bean & natural flavors

About 52teas View company

At 52teas.com, you will find unique, hand-blended artisan loose leaf teas: a new limited edition creation every week of the year. We pride ourselves on offering truly unique, one-of-a-kind tea blends that you won’t find anywhere else.

20 Tasting Notes

65
2484 tasting notes

This tastes kind of peppery and also sort of like soy sauce? The weird flavors mellowed somewhat in the resteep. I was more careful to steep for a shorter time the second time. I also didn’t use milk the second time, which I think helped. Now I taste orange and a bit of rooibos. It’s better this time, but I don’t love it.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

80
68 tasting notes

Rooibos is such a good choice for this flavor. It’s a warm, drinkable chocolate orange. So good!

Flavors: Chocolate, Honey, Orange

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 8 min or more 15 g 47 OZ / 1389 ML

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

78
333 tasting notes

12 Teas of Christmas: Day 10

Finally catching up on my notes, a few days late! I remember quite enjoying this one — the chocolate flavor was nice and robust, as was the orange. They played really well together!

Flavors: Chocolate, Cocoa, Orange Zest

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

1445 tasting notes

10th Tea of Christmas 2022

Still not a great lover of rooibos, but it’s nice to have something so unabashedly chocolate orange in the evening. Also pairs well with actual chocolate!

Probably going to use the rest up in a latte, later tonight. Should be good.

Flavors: Candy, Chocolate, Citrus, Orange, Smooth, Sweet, Vanilla, Woody

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 8 min or more

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

16619 tasting notes

Adventaggedon Day Twenty Three – 2/6

This was the first tea I steeped up today before the fact I was sick had really set in. My throat was a bit sore and raw, but I wasn’t really stuffed up yet so I didn’t have any issues with tasting. I really liked this tea – it was very much like the classic Terry’s Chocolate Orange you eat around Christmas but with a little more brightness from the orange – especially in the lingering aftertaste.

Today’s Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CmhsXY6ut-w/

Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCQKikKN-6Y

Nattie

I’ll have to try this, I wanted to love Bird&Blend’s Terry’s Tea so badly but I absolutely detested it. Sad, because I love a Terry’s Chocolate Orange

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

293 tasting notes

This for an “Orange Tea” on this month’s scavenger Hunt prompt. I recently came across a box of teas that I had stashed away – so this one has been hiding from me for a few years (in this case, few = almost five). I’m pleased to say that the flavor is still pleasant & strong. I was a little worried because it’s been a while – but since the package was sealed, I kept my fingers crossed and am happy it’s still a tasty tea.

Nice orange flavor, pleasant chocolate notes. This was exactly what I wanted from a chocolate orange tea. The red rooibos works nice with this flavor combination.

Kittenna

Ha, I think I came across a packet of this tonight. Opened, though, so we’ll see how it has fared sometime in the next few days.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

62
6112 tasting notes

(52teas (Anne) 2022: 305)

There’s a bit of chocolate, no orange, and loooots of yucky rooibos flavour. I’m not sure if I disliked this or Butterscotch Custard more last night. Probably the latter, because chocolate.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

83
1253 tasting notes

From 2017, still sealed. Worked through a terrible migraine all day and just need some desserty-tea therapy tonight.

The chocolate is coming through surprisingly well, with a bit of a creamy, fudgy quality I taste mid-sip, with the orange hitting late in the sip and leaving a lingering presense of zesty citrus. It’s a very spot-on chocolate/orange flavor combo. The rooibos base is fairly strong here though — perhaps because whenever red rooibos is paired with something fruity/citrusy, medicinal notes seem to come forward on my palate which hide from me otherwise. That is, perhaps, the only thing bringing this tea down. There is still a nice nuttiness to the base that I believe the chocolate is really bringing out, and just a hint of a vanilla sweetness.

Solid.

Flavors: Chocolate, Citrus, Cream, Medicinal, Nutty, Orange, Orange Zest, Rooibos, Sweet, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 8 min or more 1 tsp 12 OZ / 350 ML

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

90
1403 tasting notes

Another non caffeinated 52Teas favourite: chocolate, orange, and a hint of cream. The rooibos nicely underscores the flavours.

Yesterday, I had one of my very favourite ice creams in the city—roasted marshmallow— and as I was making my way through my two scoops, I made a note of mentioning it to Anne because boy oh boy would it make a fab tea. I don’t know how one would get that slippery sticky marshmallow flavour in a tea though. The smokey crispy marshmallow bit, I think are manageable, likely with a lapsang but that gooey centre part. And then, the ice cream creaminess. Oh boy. Just parking it all here.

I predict another visit to that ice cream parlour in my near future.

Arby

Oh my gosh toasted marshmallow icecream tea would be amazing. Maybe some buttercream and caramelized sugar flavour in there to sell the icecream part. Yum!

Kittenna

Sounds delicious!

tea-sipper

Yeah, I’ve been thinking of a marshmallow ripe pu-erh… it’s a good thing I’ve never had whatever this ice cream is that you’re talking about. haha.

tea-sipper

Oh man… that looks and sounds so so good.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

58
6444 tasting notes

Latte and plain tea sipdown (236)

I used the entire sample of this to make both a latte (after asking Sil if she thought this would curdle and she said no and was right) and a plain cup. Then I got distracted by instagram and the internet and the 10 year challenge so everything is just warm and not hot. Oh well.

The steeped tea smelled like a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (which is good or bad depending on how you feel about those…I am fairly neutral). When I drink the latte, I get milk mostly at the forefront but the end and after taste is Chocolate Orange…with some earthiness from the rooibos and cacao and a touch more brightness from the orange. It is like if someone tried to make a Terry’s Chocolate Orange at home but added a touch more orange zest and cacao instead of the more processed milk chocolate. Again, that could be good or bad depending on your feelings for those things. Personally, I don’t love them and adding that to my neutral feelings towards chocolate orange in the first place, this latte is good but one is enough for me.

The plain tea is a lot less Terry’s Chocolate Orange than the latte. It lacks the creaminess from the milk so instead I am getting cacao and orange. Not chocolate orange but cacao and orange. A seemingly minor distinction but one that makes a lot of difference. Cacao is more earthy and dark chocolatey and it stands out from the orange which is a little sharper without the creaminess of milk. The two flavors are distinct from each other as well instead of working together to create the beloved chocolate orange profile.

This one just is not a favorite. I think it is a nice enough latte but I wasn’t much of a fan when it was plain. Mostly I found myself missing Butiki’s Three Friends which is the chocolate orange tea that got me enjoying the chocolate orange flavor profile.

Sil

pretty sure i said… uh…shouldn’t? haha glad it didn’t though and yes… 3 friends was good..though 2 friends was my favourite ha

Login or sign up to leave a comment.