Goji Cacao Berry

I’m a sucker for a great name and cool packaging. While not a huge fan of bagged tea, this one hooked me with both.

Opening the tin, you find that the tea is packaged in bleached, round wafer style tea bags. The fragrance is a dusty chocolate with a very faint note of mushroom.

From the name and description, this green tea should have some indications of a chocolate-cherry flavor component. After steeping for 4 minutes as recommended, you’re left with a straw colored liquid with very little character. In fragrance, you can barely sense some cocoa but the flavor is merely that of a very light, mild green. Once the cup cooled, the chocolate presented itself, but very faintly. Goji completely missed its curtain call.

I’m a marketing manager’s dream in that I’ll drop $10 on a tin of tea because of the packaging. However, I’m also their nightmare because I’m vocal when I don’t like something. This tea was the epitome of all that fails in a bagged tea.

One of my guilty pleasures is dark chocolate covered goji berries. So when I saw this tea, I jumped at the chance to get it.

I can smell the goji in the bag…I’m not sure where it goes after it’s brewed. The bag smells like sweet chocolate…not sure what happens to it after it’s brewed. This tea is rather bitter. You’d get similar results if you made a cup of generic green tea and threw in some unsweetened cocoa. It’s very disappointing.