Sweet Desert Delight (formerly Desert Blend)

Tea type
Fruit Herbal Rooibos Blend
Ingredients
Anise, Natural Coconut Flavor, Organic Cacao Nibs, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Coconut, Organic Red Rooibos, Organic Safflower, Stevia Leaf
Flavors
Not available
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Fair Trade, Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by Lexie Aleah
Average preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 12 oz / 354 ml

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From Zhi Tea

Ingredients: Red Rooibus*, coconut*, cacao nibs*, cinnamon*, anise pods*, stevia*, safflowers*, and coconut flavor*
(*Organic)

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

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

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12 Tasting Notes

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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!

TeaEqualsBliss

When this cools…it’s all about the coconut and it gets sweeter and sweeter VERY SWEET…so I am thinking from my previous review…my water wasn’t hot enough with my first attempt…but this attempt was nice!

Spencer

Sounds like a unique tasting tea. No need for adding sugar, I suppose?

TeaEqualsBliss

I don’t ever add sugar but I think if you are used to adding sufar you still wouldn’t need to, no. :)

SoccerMom

Yay for it tasting good this time around.:)

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Steep Information:
~12oz boiling water 2tsp
5+ minutes
Metal basket strainer

Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: sweet, coconut, anise
Steeped Tea Smell: Anise and wood, Hint coconut
Flavor: Sweet coconut anise
Aftertaste: Woody
Liquor: Color translucent orange red

Resteep: very weak

https://amazonv.blogspot.com/2021/01/zhi-tea-company-loose-leaf-rooibos.html

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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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.

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