Review: Kalahari Tea’s ChocoLatté Green Tea

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The Subject: ChocoLatté Green Tea from Kalahari Tea.


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Rating:
Water temperature: 180° F
Steeping time: 3 to 5 minutes per the directions on their package

Tea type: Green
Scents, flavorings, etc.: Peppermint, cocoa, chocolate flavoring
Aroma, dry: Strong mint, softer cocoa, no green tea
Aroma in the cup, plain: Mint and cocoa, slight green tea
Taste, plain: Mint and cocoa, slight green tea
Aroma in the cup, enhanced: Same
Taste, enhanced: Sweetener makes this tea taste more like candy than tea

2nd Infusion: Didn’t do since is a bagged tea

Chilled: Didn’t do

Comments:
First, take a moment during steeping for a big, BIG, BIG whiff. Aaaaahhhhh! The peppermint and cocoa give a heavenly aroma to this tea. Too bad I can’t end my review there. In all fairness to you, I have to go on.

At this point I have to tell you that, being allergic to peppermint (I didn’t get a chance to select the samples the company sent me and so didn’t have a chance to tell them that) especially when combined with chocolate, I had to turn over the tasting to hubby. He was happy to oblige.

We steeped the tea for 3 minutes, and then hubby tried some. We continued steeping for another minute, and he tried some more then. At this point, I have to turn the review over to hubby.

Hubby here. Thank goodness my wife is allergic to this tea. More for me. Just kidding. At 3 minutes, the tea was really good, the mint and chocolate worked well with the tea taste. The mint really stayed on my tongue and the cocoa flavor filled my mouth. At 4 minutes, the mint and tea taste were about the same, but the cocoa taste had become more prominent. With sweetener added, this tea is like a liquid after dinner mint and would be great for after that evening meal. Well, that’s about all. Back to the wife.

This tea loses half a teapot for being bagged, half a teapot for calling that hemp bag a “sachet” (doesn’t compare with other true sachets such as Mighty Leaf’s) and half a teapot for being organic. (I guess they’re not paying attention to the increasing number of reports of people getting sick from a new strain of e-coli bacteria in organic produce. There’s even a commercial out about it, except they forget to tell you the spinach that made the little boy sick was organic.) Out of the remaining 3.5 teapots, hubby rated it a 3.

Disclaimer: This tea was provided by the company named. However, the rating of the tea and any opinions concerning it are always strictly objective.