Green Rooibos - Sweet African Red

It doesn’t have the natural sweetness of the red version; the sweetness here, such that it is, comes from the honeybush that is added in. The taste is decribed as woody on the box, but it seems to lean more toward reedy/grassy/twiggy to me. It has the taste of something that is supposed to be good for you (and this is supposed to be good for you). By that I don’t mean medicinal so much as health-foody. Though the taste isn’t the same, it’s the same sort of feeling I get from drinking wheatgrass or eating carob — virtuous as opposed to decadent, and I guess I’m looking for my tea adventures to be more Dionysian.

Although I’ll give it a few more tries to give it a fair shake, I don’t think I’m going to find this is for me, at least by itself. Good to know what it tastes like without additives (except for the honeybush), though, in case I come across green rooibos blends in the future.

Not my favourite. It might smell like rooibos, but it’s rather bland by comparison. Tastes somewhat like grass, but not in a bad way. I’d drink it again if it was the only thing available quite happily, but I don’t love it.

Pretty good, but nothing too out-of-the-ordinary here. I tend to like flavoured teas when the underlying tea is so subtle, and this one feels like just straight Green Rooibos. It’s not bad, in fact the quality is very nice, but when you compared it to something like the Adagio flavoured Green Rooibos from Lupicia, it’s tough to beat that one. Good tea, but pretty standard vibe.