A Natural Grocers opened in town a while ago and I’d bought some teas there that aren’t in my normal grocery stop, this being one of them. I have been out of tulsi blends and didn’t read the packaging very close, thinking this was a tulsi rose blend, and while it does have those things, it’s actually on an assam black tea base. Which I wasn’t too bovvered about, as I like rose black tea as well.
The blend, however… is a little weird. The rose flavor is nice, it’s pretty strong and I wouldn’t recommend it to those averse to florals, but it doesn’t taste perfumey (at least to me, but I love strong rose tea). I’d put it on par with the rose flavor of Kroger Private Selection’s rose black tea. But I don’t think I’m as much of a fan of the tulsi mixed with a black base, because while I normally like tulsi on its own, it leaves this really strange aftertaste to me on the assam. Sometimes it just comes out kind of minty which is pretty pleasant, but other times it just comes off with this weird oaty/hay note that just isn’t playing nicely with the rest. It’s not bad, but I think I’d prefer a rose-on-tulsi or a rose-on-black more than this amalgamation of both.
Flavors: Floral, Hay, Malt, Mint, Oats, Pepper, Rose, Sweet
