15 Tasting Notes
Very often I find you need to add a little extra tea to get a full bodied David’s tea experience. NOT with this one. In fact, you need to be careful not to oversteep this one. The coconut leaves a nice aftertaste and all the flavours work so nicely together to give you a black tea that doesn’t need milk or sugar.
This is definitely in my list of favourites. On my first visit to David’s tea I asked them to find me something that would be similar to Mighty Leaf “Green Tea Tropical”. They suggested Green and Fruity. I loved it. It has a sort of peach, passion fruit, apple, papaya, mango fruit zing. I was really reluctant to give green rooibus a try but I really enjoyed it. I find it very similar to Life Long Oolong but much cheaper. I’ve been tempted to try Southern Belle but I think it would be too peachy and this one has more of the tropical notes that I like. After drinking this tea fairly regularly I went back to try a mighty leaf tea and found it sooo bitter and tannic – David has converted me.
I LOVE THIS TEA. I bought this tea the first time I visited David’s Tea. It was the tea of the month and a 50g package was sitting near the cash so I bought it on a whim. What a great choice. It’s perfect every time – I don’t even worry about measuring. When I want something a little heavier than Green and Fruity but not so heavy as what you would get from a flavoured black tea then I turn to Happy. It really does make you feel happier. I would say this is to tea what a chardonnay is to wine – a bit fuller and richer and something many people enjoy.
I liked this tea but somehow I was left wanting something a little more. Perhaps it was too weak, perhaps the lack of colour made me perceive it as weaker than it was. It smelled so promising – somewhat like Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion but much more authentic – so maybe more like a a pina coloada with a banana thrown in. But, I just couldn’t get enough taste to make me want to buy it again after testing the sample that came with the rest of my order.
