Rooibos Oriental Tea by Dammann Frères

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“DF Advent — Day 11 Rooibos Oriental has a really smooth red rooibos taste that doesn’t come across as medicinal to me. It’s more like cedar with black currant. Woody yet smooth. The flavorings...” Read full tasting note

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“Adventageddon Day 11 Definitely not a fan of the name of this tea – I think DF probably could have picked a name without roots in colonialism and the broad fetishization/exoticism of Asian people...” Read full tasting note

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“Good rooibos, the taste of fruit is a bit light.” Read full tasting note

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From Dammann Frères

Tea n°249

Variation on rooibos of the bouquet of flavors characterizing our famous tea blend Oriental. Enjoy the sweetness of rooibos deliciously associated with notes of passion fruit, peach and wild strawberry.

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derk

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DF Advent — Day 11

Rooibos Oriental has a really smooth red rooibos taste that doesn’t come across as medicinal to me. It’s more like cedar with black currant. Woody yet smooth. The flavorings are supposed to be passionfruit, bush peach and strawberry. Dammann Frères has a great passionfruit flavoring but I don’t taste it here. What makes itself known, however muddled the fruitiness presents, is the peach and strawberry combination. This tastes like the 1980s to me, which has happened with another fruity rooibos from August Uncommon whose name I can’t recall. Rooibos Oriental is fine enough but nothing I’d want to keep on hand, considering I prefer unflavored rooibos.

Flavors: Black Currant, Cedar, Fruity, Peach, Rooibos, Smooth, Strawberry, Woody

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Adventageddon Day 11

Definitely not a fan of the name of this tea – I think DF probably could have picked a name without roots in colonialism and the broad fetishization/exoticism of Asian people and culture that would have still gotten the “vibe” of the tea across…

But, name aside, I also just didn’t love the taste of this tea either. I’m not 100% what the fruit flavour is supposed to be, but to me it tasted like maybe a mix of red fruit and a more pine-y and resinous mango? It was very medicinal though, and the more I drank the cup the more it started to remind me of cherry cough syrup.

So, unfortunately, hard pass on this blend for me.

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