Feijoa

My partner brought this back for me on a recent trip to New Zealand. I had to look up what Feijoa is… pineapple guava! Not a flavor I’ve encountered in tea. It also has manuka leaf aka tea tree in in. It’s a bright floral fruity mix. It’s well rounded, tastes good plain and has a nice finish with a strong floral taste. I’m unable to describe the flavors because I have nothing to compare it to. I’m really kinda liking it! I bet it would be amazing iced!

My roomie picked up some of this while she was living in New Zealand – apparently feijoa is a pretty popular fruit over there? It’s a bit of a weird flavour – we had it in some drinks and chocolates over there while I was visiting her. It’s a bit floral-fruity and definitely has that “exotic” fruit flavour (i.e. not a flavour that’s familiar). It could be misconstrued as overripe too, I believe.

Anyhow, the tea! It’s actually a reasonably accurate representation of what I know to be feijoa flavour (although admittedly I didn’t have the actual fruit, so I could be wrong) – the aroma is fruity, sweet, and almost fig-like, and the flavour is very similar, although not quite as intense as the aroma. The green honey bush works well here – unobtrusive, and no throat scratchiness. Overall, not a flavour I overly care for, but I think it’s a well-done tea. Withholding a rating; personally it’s probably in the 40s as I don’t really want much more, but if one likes feijoa, it’s probably 80+.