Pumpkin Spice Rooibos

Another one from Tealux! Opening the bag, it smelled like cantaloupe for some reason. The taste, I swear, is just like Butiki’s Cantaloupe & Cream. I’d swear it contaminated this but Tealux’s packaging is really good.. and the Cantaloupe was nowhere near this one. In a blind taste test, I would guess the Butiki. Tealux actually makes an effort to put pumpkin in their tea, so I appreciate that (the best pumpkin is Della Terra’s Grandma’s Pumpkin Pie… they put pie filling in). I guess there is a hint of squashy vegetableness. This has spices in it too. The idea of a spicy pumpkin rooibos sounds delicious… this one just tastes like cantaloupe.

SIPDOWN! Love it when i can get two cup samples into a single mug because my giant mugs at home hold twice the liquid as normal people lol. Back down to 300 teas! (until tomorrow when my david’s tea order arrives).

This is a strange tea….pretty tasty, but strange. It smells like spicy, pumpkin-y ness… but when you sip it, it reminds me of apple? spice. I can see why Teasipper said cantaloupe, though I’m not feeling that specifically. Subtracting a few rating points off this because it’s somewhere in between pumpkin and apple spice, but it’s still a tea that i’d drink again for sure.

Used 1.5 tablespoons for ~375ml of water.

Lemon-y note. Dilute overall flavour. Rich gourd-like pumpkin tone. Baked-goods note. Spices complement the flavour profile very well and do not overpower. Slightest hint of creaminess. Savoury taste profile. Woodsy note from the rooibos base.

I honestly didn’t like this one after my first few sips, but it’s growing on me as it cools down a bit. It’s funny, I was trying to think how to describe the taste when I read the 2 previous reviews. I had an ahah moment when I read Tea Sipper’s comment about it tasting like Butiki’s cantaloupe tea. It does, which is really weird, as this is a rooibos and that one’s a white. There is a bit of spiciness at the end of the sip that’s not in the cantaloupe tea, though.

I can’t say that I’m really disappointed this tea doesn’t have a strong pumpkin flavour. I don’t actually like pumpkin that much, so spicy cantaloupe works for me.