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“And bye bye. I’m having my last bag of this at work today. I won’t miss it, but I salute it for trying. :-) And for its role in helping me learn what I like and don’t like. Looking forward to the...” Read full tasting note
“Backlog, had this with breakfast yesterday at the Saturn Cafe in Berkeley with a Southwestern tofu scramble. I’ve decided I really don’t like mate unless it’s roasted but the lemon in here drowns...” Read full tasting note
“Had a bag of this on the ferry today. A bag I brought myself. :) The ferry only has Lipton, which I didn’t want to deal with. I really enjoyed this! Loads of lemony herbal green flavours, a nice...” Read full tasting note
“This morning I had Mate Lemon. Not bad. I’m sick yet again! ugh! I don’t want to try new teas as I don’t think I’ll taste much.” Read full tasting note
For hundreds of years, Yerba Mate has long been a ceremonial drink of friendship, hospitality, strength, and courage to the people of the South American rainforest. This evergreen leaf is known for its pleasantly stimulating effect and for evoking a cheerful mental lucidity. We are proud to introduce this delightful tasting infusion of organic Mate with the Australian rainforests’ organic Lemon Myrtle, touted as herb of the millennium for its high citral content. Organic Chun Mee green tea, skillfully hand-rolled into the eyebrow contour of its name, unfolds a subtle, plum-like sweetness to the leafy lemon piquancy of Mate and Myrtle. This energizing blend uplifts one’s senses, as clarity arrives like birdsong after fresh rain.
I swear I have boxes of this in my desk drawer at work. I’m not sure what ever came over me to get so many but I’m going to make a valiant attempt to drink some of these down.
This isn’t a bad tea. I like the lemon tart flavor I’m getting and the pick me up from the mate. Just not sure I needed 3 boxes worth of it. This is going to be a long sipdown.
I have tried Numi Mate Lemon before, but not since joining Steepster, and I have some fresh bags in my cupboard from the sampler boxes, so here goes:
This blend offers a pretty mighty punch of caffeine, which was what I was really after this afternoon. No idea why I have been so tired. Perhaps staying up until 3am has something to do with it, but then I slept in until almost noon!
Anyway, this is a mate for gringos. I’ve spent some time in Argentina and around Argentinians elsewhere, so I know what unembellished mate tastes and smells like: bitter and grassy. Closer to an oversteeped darjeeling than anything else!
This blend masks any and all bitterness with lemon myrtle, which imparts both flavor and texture (think licorice root texture, but without any sweetness or licorice flavor whatsoever). There is also some green tea here—something chum meeish, it seems.
The overall effect to my palate is of a pleasant lightly flavored mid-range filterbag green tea. It’s okay. I regard this more as a functional blend than a tea which I would want to stock up on and find myself craving. There are many good sources of a powerful punch of caffeine. This is one of them, and it tastes perfectly fine. The real virtue of this sort of blend is that it does not require any cream, as do many equally potent black blends.
(Blazing New Rating #19)
