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Herbal Rooibos Blend by The Persimmon Tree Tea Company
A scrumptious herbal blend with notes of ripe banana, sweet coconut, graham cracker and a hint of caramel, our Banana Dulce tea is a smooth and organic treat to clear your senses.
Freaking. Delicious.
Honestly, the most tasty blend I have had in months. For me personally it is a 100. I’ll share why later.
Preparing my blog post and taking lots of pretty pictures, but dang, this tea is so refreshing! (Iced!) Stay tuned ;)
Picked a sample of this one up as I was curious as to how it compares to DavidsTea’s Dulce & Banana. The aroma of the dry tea is quite similar, caramelly-sweet and chamomiley, but I’m definitely getting a bit more chamomile than I’m used to, and it’s a bit offputting. Steeped, however, it smells very similar. The flavour, too, is quite similar; not really much discernible banana, some caramelly sweetness, all rounded out by chamomile.
I’ll have to do a direct comparison to DT’s version at some point, but I think I like it a bit better.
ETA: A re-steep worked out ok here, definitely got heavier on the chamomile though. I opted to stick with just the two infusions as the smell of the chamomile was getting to me.
This tea is TASTY! TASTYTASTYTASTY!
First off – The Persimmon Tree did a few name changes, so this tea is now Banana Coconut. mmm, coconut!
What I found while reviewing this tea is the magic is in the steep time. I first did the rooibos steep time – which produces a stronger chamomile taste with a banana aftertaste.
I then discovered that The Persimmon Tree has this tea listed as 5 to 7 minutes, the herbal steep time. I made another cup at 6 minutes and WHOA! It’s just a little woody chamomile, finishing off with strong creamy sweet caramelly banana flavors. This tea also make an amazing latte – it’s like having that cup of warm milk before bed but much more relaxing from the chamomile with a tasty banana brown sugar treat.
See the full review on my blog, Oolong Owl here: http://oolongowl.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/banana-coconut-from-the-persimmon-tree-tea-review/
I also have a promo code posted there!
This truly is an amazing blend. I believe this tea is now called Banana Coconut. Instead of doing a typical tea review expressing my obsession with this blend I decided to get my thinking hat on and use this blend to create a Banana Bread recipe infused with tea.
Here is the recipe you can check out & try yourself: http://theteacupoflife.blogspot.ca/2013/03/banana-bread-infused-with-banana-dulce.html
Please let me know if you try it & how it turned out for you. Also, if you made any adjustments be sure to fill me in!! :)
I have never tried a banana tea so I thought I’d give this one a shot! There is a very strong chamomile flavor at first (maybe too much?). This is the more dominant flavor. But the aftertaste is where you find the banana and caramel flavors. It’s light but it’s also very delicious. You can’t really catch the rooibos, which is a bit of a disappointment.. This would be a wonderful “wind down after a busy day”/bedtime tea.
