I love mangosteens but they are just such a hard fruit to find. They don’t travel well, so finding a fresh one in the states is next to impossible, and they just haven’t taken off as a “superfruit” so you rarely find them dried. That extends to tea… I have almost never seen a mangosteen flavored tea besides a few blends from grocery store teas trying to cash in on superfruit status. But I found out that Dammann has a mangosteen black, and I finally got around to ordering some (since CDV carried it).
The dry leaf certainly smells like mangosteen, that hard-to-describe, tropical, peach-passion fruit-banana-pear flavor. There are also clearly chunks of dried mangosteen in the blend. Steeped up, it retains that scent and flavor, with the addition of Dammann’s traditional Chinese/Ceylon tea base (people who dislike that blend will find the same flavor here; fortunately, I love the blend). The flavor is nice, slightly creamy, sweet and tart. Very pleased with the faithfulness to mangosteen here.
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You’re right, they must be hard to find, because I haven’t even seen them anywhere, and consequently, have never tried them before.
I pretty much lived in the US the past two summers, and I’ll readily admit I find it much harder to find fresh produce there than I do here in Canada. Mangosteens are a regular offering at the Asian grocery stores nearby, as well as some of the larger chain stores, depending. I have yet to have one however, I think. So cool that DF has one that honors the fruit well!
You’re right, they must be hard to find, because I haven’t even seen them anywhere, and consequently, have never tried them before.
I pretty much lived in the US the past two summers, and I’ll readily admit I find it much harder to find fresh produce there than I do here in Canada. Mangosteens are a regular offering at the Asian grocery stores nearby, as well as some of the larger chain stores, depending. I have yet to have one however, I think. So cool that DF has one that honors the fruit well!