Pumpkin Spice Rooibos

sipdown! And since i know there isn’t likely to be another cup of tea this evening, i can say that i managed to end this weekend at 193! Even if i count the 3 verdant blends that won’t show up at my place for another two weeks, i’m still under 200 so ha! go me! roughly 39 days left until black friday (i lose a week with vacation) that’s 43 teas….so 1 a day! I can totally do that…especially since i still have some samples from dinosara to work through and a few left from terri. It’s all coming together now folks! oh yeah!

This is a pretty tasty tea. After letting it steep for 8 mins or so, i get more of the cantaloupe taste that others have mentioned…only it’s spicey cantaloupe…and delicious. and that..makes this a good tea!

Another one from Tealux! Opening the bag, it smelled like cantaloupe for some reason. The taste, I swear, is just like Butiki’s Cantaloupe & Cream. I’d swear it contaminated this but Tealux’s packaging is really good.. and the Cantaloupe was nowhere near this one. In a blind taste test, I would guess the Butiki. Tealux actually makes an effort to put pumpkin in their tea, so I appreciate that (the best pumpkin is Della Terra’s Grandma’s Pumpkin Pie… they put pie filling in). I guess there is a hint of squashy vegetableness. This has spices in it too. The idea of a spicy pumpkin rooibos sounds delicious… this one just tastes like cantaloupe.

Thank you Dexter3657 for this tea. I kept it safe until October when I begin to crave pumpkin teas.

This blend smells spicy, sweet and light with pumpkin/squash that smells oddly fruity. My husband said apple and I think he hit the nail on the head, like an apple and cinnamon tea with a difference. Not the pumpkin spice tea that I was longing for…

Serving this with a drop of milk and sugar.

Once steeped the tea smells much more like pumpkin than it’s raw form but it’s still not perfect…it’s one of those teas that has a flaw but I just cannot put my finger on what it is. Smell wise so far anyway.

Flavour is mild and slightly spicy with a touch of citrus cardamom and what I would describe as squash but not pumpkin. It’s an unusual flavour but it’s not horrible, just not what is expected. It really reminds me of another tea but I don’t know which one or whom by. I almost want to say watermelon or cantaloupe melon but not nearly as nice as those. As soon as I said melon to my husband he said that is exactly what it tastes like, some sort of melon. We have been trying to work it out.

As I said it’s not a horrible tea but nor is it pumpkin. Will have to try this again in a few days and see if my view changes. No rating for now.

I love this tea. This is my favorite CANTALOUPE tea. It is amazing, why do they have to call it pumpkin? There is nothing about pumpkin about it. It’s creamy cantaloupe spice. Awesome!!!

Hmmmm… I was hiping this would be better. But then again rooibos is hard when it comes to my taste. I love very few rooibos. This was deffinitely melony and cinnamon, but it had that rooibos taste really bad! Strong! Awh man, thank you linnaete for sharing this with me!

Used 1.5 tablespoons for ~375ml of water.

Lemon-y note. Dilute overall flavour. Rich gourd-like pumpkin tone. Baked-goods note. Spices complement the flavour profile very well and do not overpower. Slightest hint of creaminess. Savoury taste profile. Woodsy note from the rooibos base.

I honestly didn’t like this one after my first few sips, but it’s growing on me as it cools down a bit. It’s funny, I was trying to think how to describe the taste when I read the 2 previous reviews. I had an ahah moment when I read Tea Sipper’s comment about it tasting like Butiki’s cantaloupe tea. It does, which is really weird, as this is a rooibos and that one’s a white. There is a bit of spiciness at the end of the sip that’s not in the cantaloupe tea, though.

I can’t say that I’m really disappointed this tea doesn’t have a strong pumpkin flavour. I don’t actually like pumpkin that much, so spicy cantaloupe works for me.

I love this tea! It’s a nice way to enjoy the pumpkin spice taste without the caffeine that a latte has. It’s kind of naturally sweet so I’d be careful when adding sugar.

Thanks to Raritea for a sample of this one from quite a while back :) I’m trying to get a few sipdowns out of the way today… just to make myself feel better. Haha. I so shouldn’t have placed those two joint orders…

Anyhow, it’s not bad. Does kind of taste pumpkiny, and spiced, but it’s not quite the way I’d like a pumpkin spice rooibos to taste. Maybe a bit light on both? I’m not sure. On the plus side, the rooibos is just fine here – no weird aftertaste or anything, so it’s a perfectly enjoyable cup, just not quite what one would hope from a tea with such a name. The spicing in Della Terra and Butiki’s pumpkin teas is definitely superior.