This is a nice peppermint but, also, at the end of the day it’s… peppermint.
By that I mean that even a really nice tasting peppermint is still kind of plain and will always be comparable to dozens of other nice peppermints carried by other companies. For me this is the kind of tea that, while classic and something that most people consider a “cupboard staple”, is inherently the sort of tea that you can kind of pick up from any shop and be satisfied with? I don’t know many people that are brand loyal when it comes to buying their peppermint – they usually just get it from whatever shop they next order from that happens to time out around needing a restock.
I guess to ellaborate a little on what I mean by “nice peppermint” though…
The flavour is really crisp and clean, with strong cooling menthol notes. A poor example of a peppermint is “muddy” in its taste; just rougher in general and tastes more like vegetation with earthy undertones the longer it steeps. Not the case for this one, so it was a good cuppa overall.