Tisane Information:
Leaf Type: Rooibos
Where to Buy: Shanti Tea
Tisane Description:
This herbal blend is an exciting combination of herbs and spices. It embodies the smells and flavours of the African festival season and piques all of your senses creating an experience that walks a fine line between excitement and relaxing escape.
Learn more about this tisane here.
Taster’s Review:
I know I’ve said it before, but, I prefer green rooibos over the oxidized, red variety. The green rooibos (which is not oxidized) has a fresher, fruitier flavor that I really enjoy. Unfortunately, there really are so few green rooibos blends out there … at least when compared to the red rooibos blends. So when I saw that this rooibos blend from Shanti Tea was a green rooibos blend, I was very pleased.
While Shanti Tea does not go into details on their website about the ingredients of this blend, I can see large rose petals, chunks of citrus peel and pieces of dried fruit in there amongst the needle-thin green rooibos leaves. It brews to a golden color that’s full of fruit flavor!
The citrus notes are prominent, and they add a certain brightness to the cup, as well as a tangy taste that offers a nice contrast to the sweeter fruit notes of peach and apple. I taste the floral notes as well, starting out with a very soft rose flavor at the start of the cup, and by the time I’ve reached mid-cup, the rose becomes a little more focused.
Overall, I’d describe this cup as a deliciously fruity, lightly sweet cup – very enjoyable! It is a tisane that I think kids would really like because of its sweet, nectar-y like taste, and because it’s naturally caffeine-free you won’t have to worry about it keeping them over-stimulated … and they certainly don’t need that!
