Saw this, and two other flavours, available in the RTD section of my grocery store last time I did a big in person haul and of course I couldn’t resist buying one of each…
This was my favourite of the three I picked up! The orange is very sweet and bright in the front of the sip and reminds me a little of Sunkist orange flavour; that really tangy and juicy childhood kind of orange flavour that just makes your mouth water. It’s not fleeting, but it also doesn’t hang on the palate because soon after the wave of orange is the more grassy and almost marshy tasting guayusa, with hints of smoke and rainwater and an almost metallic kind of finish. All three of the these RTDs had the same metallic kind of twang to the guayusa and it almost gave me the sense that were I not drinking the tea straight from the can it would still taste like it was coming from a can…
It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t the type of flavour I could see myself naturally gravitating towards either so I’m not sure how likely a repurchase would be. However, for a carbonated guayusa beverage, I’m still pretty impressed!