This one confuses me – I like my flavored rooibos well enough, but this is like drinking straight-up rooibos. It smells like rooibos in the bag, it smells like rooibos in the cup, and it tastes like rooibos in the cup. Any hint of anything else, mango or otherwise, is simply absent. I can’t really add anything else – it’s just rooibos.
Again, this might be a case of me not picking up Butiki’s more subtle flavorings, or just that I’ve taken my sweet time trying this tea. I keep everything in air-tight containers, but you never know – mangoes can be so devious.
(Insert link to working ‘Self-defense against fruit’ Monty Python clip here.)
[From my Butiki order to Santa Clara, October 2013.]
Boiling, 5 min