Another acquisition that I attribute to the Teavana tea of the month club. When I went to write this note, I saw I had put this on my wish list a long time ago (so long ago, young whippersnappers, that they called it the shopping list back then), so it’s kind of nice to place it in my cupboard and remove it from the list.
I got a strong liqueur scent from the package—Amaretto? Frangelico? Who knows. There are both almonds and hazelnuts in this, but no coffee, though I think of Tiramisu as primarily coffee flavored. Perhaps the chocolate is meant to stand in for the coffee? The BF, by the way, smelled orange, though I didn’t (but there is orange in this).
I do smell an orange note after steeping, and a really interesting smell that approximates lady fingers! Somehow, the combined flavors after steeping give an impression of Tiramisu despite the lack of coffee.
The flavor isn’t bad. It’s just not overly close to Tiramisu. It’s more of a chocolate flavor than a coffee one. Most Tiramisu I’ve had does have some chocolate—usually flakes sprinkled on top, so in that sense it isn’t completely inaccurate. And every now and then as I sip I get flashes of a pastry-like lady finger taste, which is weird since the body of the tea and the mouth feel isn’t particularly chewy. In fact, it’s fairly thin. I think if they’d managed to get the mouth feel thicker, I might have been lulled into believing I was tasting a Tiramisu flavor.
It’s a nice collection of flavors, but I don’t think I would have identified it as Tiramisu if I didn’t know that’s what it was trying to be.
The rooibos is nicely in the background, too, to the point of not being noticeable. Yay.
Low marks for getting the flavor to match the name, but high marks for a nice, tasty dessert replacement drink.
