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Sweet Desert Delight (aka Desert Blend) from Zhi Tea

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80/100

Sweet Desert Delight (aka Desert Blend)

Rooibos Tea by Zhi Tea

Sweet Desert Delight, Another Zhi Signature Blend that takes flavor to new heights.

We blend our organic red rooibos (pron. “roy-bos”), cinnamon, anise pods, cacao nibs, coconut pieces, safflowers and stevia leaf to create a world-class organic taste sensation.

This is truly an oasis for the senses. Relish in the heady aroma of the steeping brew.

Inhale deeply. Pour a mug. Savor. Imbibe. Repeat. Indulge. Relax!

No sugar and no caffeine. Naturally sweet and healthy; from Zhi to you.

USDA Organic and Fair Trade

4.2 oz Tin – $14.50 – 59 Servings 25¢ per cup
8.0 oz Pouch $22.00 – 107 Servings 19¢ per cup

AKA Sweet Dessert Delight; Sweet Thai Delight; Red Thai Delight; Red Tea

11 Tasting Notes

Bethany
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Bethany 3 tasting notes

This seems to be Zhi’s most popular blend. I’ve read a lot of great reviews of it elsewhere. It’s way sweeter than I expected, which is a good thing. I expected this to be very thick and full of chocolaty tannins, which was not what I was in the mood for. Instead, this is much lighter, with the coconut and cinnamon shining through, and the stevia sweetening things up. I can’t taste the rooibos at all! This makes me glad.

2010-01-20 21:42:52 -0500
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The end of my sample. Sadness. This is the perfect evening tea for me. Think I’m gonna get a full size.

2010-01-27 22:06:13 -0500
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Mmmm. Not much of my sample left, as this is my second pot. May have to buy a tin. A great evening tea.

2010-01-21 20:32:28 -0500
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LiberTEAS
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LiberTEAS 2 tasting notes

My tin says “Desert Blend” but the ingredients are identical, so I am fairly certain (99.9%) that Desert Blend and Sweet Desert Delight are one in the same.

This is a sweet and tasty blend. I guess if I had one complaint, it would be that there is stevia in this, and I often find the aftertaste with stevia to be unpleasant. That being said, the stevia aftertaste is not too bad here (noticeable, but not a strong aftertaste). The funky aftertaste in the rooibos is not noticeable either. Mostly what I taste is coconut and deep chocolate-y tones, with a kiss of cinnamon and a hint of licorice-y taste from the anise.

Enjoyable.

2011-10-13 05:38:40 -0400
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Backlog: I like this best when it has had plenty of time to steep (I steeped it for 10 minutes this time) and when I add just a pinch of sugar it helps offset the weird aftertaste from the stevia. I am not a fan of stevia … I’d rather not have sweetener at all than have the stevia, but because it’s in there, I wanted something to alter that aftertaste a bit.

Tasty, but certainly not my favorite from Zhi Tea.

2012-01-02 03:56:31 -0500
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TeaEqualsBliss
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TeaEqualsBliss 4 tasting notes

This is so sweet it’s distracting. I may have oversteeped so this rating will change, I am sure. I like the idea of this…but I could have very well be at fault

2009-12-31 20:14:22 -0500
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I thought I had tried this one before! I received a sample today and it was packaged differently than I remember. I went back and read my previous review and scored it quite low! (59) – As I am drinking this THIS time around it’s soooooo different! Not sure if I was logging the wrong tea before or had a bad or old batch…hum…

Anyhow…on to this review…

The dry blend scent is somewhere between a chocolate chai smell I have in recent memory AND a Chocolate Coconut Cinnamon Cookie of sorts. It has a sort of a plastic smell but that could very well be from the packaging.

The color is a deep red-brown. The aroma of the liquid is Cinnamon, Coconut, and almost a little bit of a cream scent.

The taste is sweet but also spicy…a natural cinnamon spice…not Fire Ball type cinnamon. I have a HONKIN’ HUGE Anise Star In there so I was a little afraid of the results but as I sip I am pleasantly surprised. This is pretty good. The sip starts as a contradicting sweet and spice but they are working ok with each other and morphs into a flatter taste towards the end of the sip – just before the swallow.

This isn’t bad at all and I am certainly changing my rating!

2010-05-13 13:18:06 -0400
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Sipdown #5 of the day

this was sweet and coconut and cinnamon were right along with the sweetness! I seem to enjoy this one more each time I try it.

2010-11-27 23:46:22 -0500
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Liberteas sent me more of this and it was pretty good today! I’m going to try and zip thru a bunch of notes this afternoon :)

2012-02-10 12:28:37 -0500
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Michelle
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Michelle

Had a small sample of this in the Zhi Tea shop today. Very sweet – I love sweet teas & I think this is the first tea I’ve ever come across that I didn’t want to add sugar or honey to. Very, very good; a medley of sweet & spicy flavors. Recommended!

2011-02-18 15:35:55 -0500
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pinky
pinky

I disliked this at first. I don’t eat much sugar, so really notice “sweet”. For me, when I drank this on it’s own, the taste was overwhelmingly that powdery, coldness of stevia, which I don’t like. I didn’t finish the cup. Not wanting to waste it though, I tried adding a small amount to a pot of black tea. Yum! Chocolate liqueur tea. I may buy this again after all.

2010-12-04 13:56:21 -0500
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