Brand: English Tea Shop
Flavour: Rooibos Gingerbread Man
Ingredients: Rooibos, roasted barley, cinnamon pieces, apple pieces with ginger, cinnamon and key lime flavours
Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free
Organic Ingredients: Unspecified
Price Range: £8
Bags Per Box: 40
Review: As usual, the English Tea Shop have delivered one of the oddest ingredients lists we've seen. Why 'key lime flavours' are in there, alongside cinnamon and rooibos, we have no idea.
This is a strange tea that smells an awful lot like incense - like curry seasoning creeping up your nostrils upon entering an Indian restaurant. That's great when you actually want a curry, but not so great when you're expecting gingerbread rooibos. We could only hope this was another one of those ETS blends that tasted nothing like it smelled.
Sadly, this was not so. The flavour is strong rooibos (thankfully they got that much right!)...but blended with a festival of savoury spices. Altogether, it's like rooibos curry, if you can imagine such a thing. (Before drinking this, we couldn't have imagined it either.)
We passed it around to unsuspecting friends. Other descriptions of the taste ranged from 'rolling tobacco' to 'the lamentations of defeated warriors'. Put simpler, this is one of the weirdest teas we have ever tried, and not at all worth the price.
Best time of year to drink this: English Tea Shop suggests drinking this at Christmastime.
Best time of day to drink this: If you must, then try it in the evening.
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