Piccolo

Tea type
Rooibos Tea
Ingredients
Flavor, Flower Petals, Red Rooibos
Flavors
Apricot, Rooibos, Wet Dog, Flat, Medicinal, Strawberry, Vanilla, Berries, Honey, Creamy, Raspberry, Sweet, Graham, Black Currant, Jam, Wood
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Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 45 sec 2 g 25 oz / 734 ml

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  • “Not the biggest rooibos fan, but this came as a free sample with my Lupicia magazine, so I thought I would pop it in tonight while watching the Lance Armstrong interview on Oprah. This isn’t bad,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I got a sample of this with my happy bag, and I’ve been eying it with caution ever since. Rooibos and I do not get along, it’s so medicinal and I’m starting to think it might be a migraine trigger...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Tasty! I’m quite enjoying this. I think the flavors are strong enough that I don’t notice the rooibos too much. I’m noticing that most of the not so good reviews for this are because people just...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Tea #41 from HHTTB2 The berry and honey flavors are definitely strong enough in here to cover the base rooibos flavor. It’s sweet and jammy, and it definitely has a thickish honey feeling on the...” Read full tasting note
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From Lupicia

Rooibos herbal tea without caffeine. Lovely scent and flavors of honey, apricot, and sweet berries. Popular choice for children and can be enjoyed hot or iced. Try straight or with a bit of milk.

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48 Tasting Notes

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4843 tasting notes

This smells awesome – very strong berry aroma with faint notes of honey. It has a very sweet smell, almost like a berry candy. As it brews, it smells a bit like wine.

When it is hot, I can taste berry, faint notes of honey and very faint nutty flavor from the rooibos. As it begins to cool, the honey flavor intensifies and more of that woody taste from the rooibos comes out. I can also taste a bit of apple in the background.

Overall, a decent tasting rooibos. Not my favorite blend, but certainly not the worst I’ve ever tried either. Nice.

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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639 tasting notes

I don’t think I like rooibos tea, at least not the red kind.

It reminds me of cough medicine I took as a child. But that could be the apricot. Hmm, no way to tell until I try another rooibos variety.

The tea has a slightly cool, refreshing aftertaste. It’s definitely weird. But I just can’t get over that medicine taste. I hate to do this, but this one’s going down the drain. :(

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec
Cofftea

Don’t give up hope- red and green bush are two COMPLETELY different animals… er… tisanes. Adagio has really good ones I completely suggest.

CHAroma

What would you suggest in the green variety?

Cofftea

Definitely Adagio as I stated before. 52teas’ blends are great too- hopefully he’ll come out w/ another green bush soon.

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818 tasting notes

It’s been awhile since I’ve enjoyed a cup of this tea. I still have a tin. I absolutely love Lupicia’s rooibos. It’s not overpowering, and they do the flavoring just right. With my last visit to the store on Friday, the saleswomen tossed in one of the mini holiday tins of this tea “as a gift.” So sweet! The tin had five sachets, which are so convenient to brew in the cute leaf-print double-walled glass cup I also bought! The color of this tea is gorgeous in that cup! I’m tasting honey and berries. Love it!

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1629 tasting notes

This is a nice tea. I have been sick for the past few days now, so my sense of smell is bad. But this is nice and fruity. Soothing and not bitter and not tart

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92 tasting notes

This surprised me with how good it was. I made a whole pot so what I had left was gone. I might consider getting more if I can find it, but I’m not chasing down more Roobios when its such an iffy drinker for me.

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333 tasting notes

This is pretty good for what it is. I’m not the biggest fan of red rooibos – I don’t like it plain at all, although I do sometimes enjoy it in blends. The rooibos here is present, but not to the point of being off-putting (to me, at least). The fruit flavoring is rather sweet and quite strong, if a bit on the artificial side – I say fruit, rather than berry and/or apricot, because, as with several other Lupicia blends I’ve tried, it’s more of a generic fruit candy flavor than anything else. I’m especially reminded of Neptune here, which struck me as, essentially, Piccolo with a black base rather than a rooibos one. It’s a bit sweeter than I’d like.

I’m enjoying this one in the evenings. It’s not outstanding, but then there aren’t a ton of caffeine-free blends that I really love drinking. I’m giving this a slightly higher score than I’d give a comparable caffeinated tea (see Neptune) just for adding some variety to my nighttime repertoire.

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338 tasting notes

Piccolo is marketed as a children’s tea by Lupicia because it’s caffeine-free. I do think children will like it because it is bursting with berry flavours! The rooibos base is very sweet with a hint of nuts, and most importantly it has no weird straw-y flavour. This overall tastes more like fruit juice (with artificial flavouring, which the kids love :P) than tea.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec

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25 tasting notes

I’m discovering I’m not a roobios fan I think. Fortunately this was a sample with my order. Didn’t like and couldn’t finish.

Claire

I don’t care for rooibos either! It seems like a love or hate thing.

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82 tasting notes

I have to start off saying I am not a fan of red rooibos and have yet to find one I truly enjoy- except for Gryphon Apple Strudel, which is very hard to get hands on now that I’m living outside Singapore.

Piccolo has a weird medicinal jam note in it, like some unholy alliance of stonefruit marmalade and cough syrup distilled into some sort of wretched jam. Lupicia claims it has a “lovely scent and flavors of honey, apricot, and sweet berries,” but I am not detecting any of those flavours except the apricot which at least serves to mask the rooibos note somewhat. They further go on to recommend it for children (apparently ones you don’t much like) and adding milk. I am a child-free vegan, so into the trash Piccolo must go.

I can’t blame Lupicia for my personal tastes and this does seem to be a nice quality rooibos- it’s just got that prominent red rooibos note that personally overrides any other good qualities. It does brew up to a lovely colour and seems like it’d be good for multiple steeps, if you’re into that sort of self-flagellation.

Flavors: Apricot, Rooibos, Wet Dog

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 150 OZ / 4436 ML
ashmanra

They have sent me this tea as a free sample so many times. Their Caramel and Rum Rooibos isn’t bad and I like all the green rooibos blends I have tried thus far.

gmathis

Thank you for the giggles! I am of the pro-roo tribe, but I get everything you said!

blueeyedsurprise

I do like their greens, but the red is a hurdle I cannot seem to overcome. I have the caramel and rum in the Book of Tea, will have to give it a try!

blueeyedsurprise

You’re very welcome, any red rooibos you can recommend without that wet-doggy note? I’m always looking to expand my tea experiences.

gmathis

The first one that popped into mind was Foxtrot by Adagio (chamomile/roo/mint) because the mint adds some counterpoint, but I’ll have to ponder on that a little further.

blueeyedsurprise

Foxtrot sounds interesting, I don’t think I’ve ever tried a minty red.

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2284 tasting notes

Fun to find some Lupicia in the last TTB! I don’t always love Lupicia’s rooibos, but I’m happy to say that this one was pretty good! The rooibos is smooth, and I can taste the pretty authentic apricot on top of that. It wasn’t juicy…maybe more like a dried apricot vibe? It was decent cold, but I accidentally left it on the counter all night, and I think this temperature is the most complementary to the flavors.

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