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A family member brought me home some tea bags and sachets that her coworkers had brought to work. One tea bag of this tea was included. My expectations were not high at all considering that this is a rooibos tea. My last rooibos tea was a loose leaf vanilla rooibos from Trader Joes and tasted horrible.

I prepared this unsweetened with about 2 TSPs of milk
Taste wise: This tea is excellent! I can taste notes of the vanilla bean, it’s a very light feeling tea but rich at the same time. The cacao notes come into play making each sip rich yet light at the same time. I was extremely impressed. It has a velvety feel to it throughout each sip.
After trying it I looked at the ingredients and saw that it has honeybush and rooibos in it. I’d never had a honey bush tea only rooibos ones.

My rating system is pretty messed up in terms of how other people rate teas I would say that using their scale it would closer to a 85.

Don’t expect a heavy chocolate flavor because again it is a very light tea that has some richness. This isn’t a tea that would make a good latte.
The flavor overall is too light and it would be easy to add to much milk to.
Very easy to accidentally cover up the flavor. You definitely wouldn’t be able to taste it when you have a cold.

Method: 8 oz boiling water steeped for at least 30 minutes.(I recommend 15+)

I was unsure about this tea as I abhor lemongrass. I really enjoyed it though. I believe it is because of the licorice root and the fact that the lemon grass isn’t overpowering.
Flavors: Sweetness from the licorice, fresh lemon towards the end of the sip.
Green tea and Matcha are nowhere to be found. Tastes like a herbal tea, is very similar to Traditional Medicinal’s Throat Coat tea taste wise.

This tea was a gift from a family member’s trip to Europe. All of the other teas were herbal blends that were brought back. I have a pretty big bag of this along with the big bags of the herbals. The package is called “Lakrits” and says it’s made in Stockholm,Sweden. My family wasn’t sure if this was tea or potpourri when they bought it but it’s tea.

Flavor wise this tea reminds me more of anise than licorice although I’m only basing this off of herbal licorice teas consisting of licorice root. I’ve never had a black tea with licorice before. My guess is that the black tea base is an assam because of the taste and slightly malty flavor. It’s far from a favorite tea but is not a bad tea. It’s just not a flavor of black tea that I’d choose.

So I accidentally ordered the large bag of this instead of the sample size. This is also the first tea from this company that I have tried.
Last time it Turned out a bit watery and the flavors were weak but pleasant.
This time I brewed it for 5 minutes at 210 F as recommended and used somewhere between 3.25-3.5 teaspoons of leaf.
It didn’t taste right, due to my error of brewing. This also is the first white tea I’ve ever had before so brewing it and tasting is still very new. The flavor notes of this were very different after over leafing it this time around.

Tonight was a sip down of this tea which I’d been putting off for quite awhile now. The latte didn’t turn out well basically everything went wrong. I used a bit too much water, then added a bit too much almond milk. The milk wasn’t frothing up great. The spoon to drizzle the honey wasn’t warmed up. Overall I was really disappointed. The tea is great normally I was just a mess today apparently. I think the fact that I had an argument not too long ago with the person who was in the kitchen with me definitely didn’t help.

I’m either just not a fan of plain red Rooibos teas, or I’ve just yet to try one that is high enough quality to like. I only find this one drinkable sweetened with a dash of almond milk. Best when sweetened with agave. Not much to say about this tea although it does brew up a lovely color.

After having had this tea many times before and being disappointed by the black tea base. I always wished for more orange flavor. I finally decided to try it with almond milk and honey instead of just almond milk. The black tea base is absent, the orange flavor came out strong. As far as tasting the base it comes across as a chamomile orange tea. Which is extremely pleasant but not what I expected. I would guess that if I added almond milk and sugar instead it would taste like more like a weak chai. The tea does not do it’s name justice. I only rated it so low because it requires milk and sweetener to bring out the orange component and even then the base disappears.
When prepared unsweetened it usually tastes like a bagged black tea with a hint of spice.

Haven’t had this tea in ages so I thought I’d brew some up this morning as a lazy latte.
Meaning that I added some milk and sweetener but didn’t froth it. This tea was quite literally inhaled by me.

Prep: I used one perfect spoon of it,(using the Teavana perfect spoon) I actually am not sure how long I steeped it, but I sure wish I did since it turned out Amazing! I know that it was much shorter than I usually steep it. Since it’s usually cold by then I’m guessing maybe 7 minutes is how long I steeped it this time.

Taste notes: Since I added a dash of good quality maple syrup it was slightly sweet but the maple flavor blended with the smokiness so well that you wouldn’t be able to guess what type of sweetener it was. The balance of smokiness is perfect, you can taste the robustness of the black tea, and the smoke. The smokiness doesn’t remind you of anything except for a warm campfire. I would easily rename this tea as a Smokey/Campfire breakfast tea. The black tea base really holds it’s own against the smoke flavor.
This is definitely a favorite morning tea from now on and or lazy latte. Note to self* Even though you generally like oversteeped teas, Do NOT oversteep this one.

Each cup of this seems to become less and less tolerable to drink.
The black tea base combined with the clove just doesn’t work for me.
This is at least my 5th cup of this tea since It was given to me.
This time I tried it as a latte, and lowered the water temperature a bit.
The best result I’ve had with this tea was drinking it with cream which is something I rarely do.