Essential kitchenware in my opinion. The easiest and most satisfying way to make tea. I think what’s underrated is how ‘pleasant’ it makes everything. I know that sounds kind of weird, but you know when you go to resteep tea and you just have cold leaves sitting in a little bag or tea steeper and they just don’t seem appetizing? Somehow this gets around that. Maybe it’s the lid. Maybe it’s just me being weird. At any rate, I enjoy it.
This might be one of my favourite rooibos teas. I was shocked to find I liked it EVEN BETTER on its second steeping. Which is not really something I would typically do with rooibos or flavoured teas, but here it just works. It was even more mellow, sweet, and caramelly the second time around.
This is a solid mate. There is very present mate flavour with some of the grassiness cut by the spices and citrus. Speaking of the citrus, it’s very present, to the point where I would actually call this a citrus mate before a spiced mate, it’s the first thing I noticed. However this isn’t a bad thing, just a little unexpected considering the name of the tea.
I don’t get much banana but I do get a comfy sweet toastiness that IS reminiscent of a sweet quick bread (like banana bread). This is perhaps a tea that would benefit from some sweetener to bring out the fruit flavours some more, though I haven’t tried that. I would prob get this again, it’s pleasant with it’s only fault being perhaps a little boring (and sometimes that’s what you want!).
A super easy drinking mate. I actually get relatively little mate flavour and wish there was a little more, but the spices are present in the back of the throat and pretty pleasant. Surprisingly sweet, which balances well with the spiciness. Not my first choice for a morning tea, but probably a good voice for an afternoon pick-me-up.