Vegetropical

A late night cuppa to satisfy some post-dinner sweet cravings. It’s a really rich, intense and sweet chocolate covered strawberry flavour – exactly what I’d want a tea with this profile to taste like. I did get that subtle spinach-y moringa undertone more than I have in the past, but I also let this steep a little longer than I typically one. It definitely didn’t ruin the cup though as the chocolate and strawberry notes are both bold enough to hold up to a bit of veg. And, as I’ve said before, it is still the best moringa tea I’ve ever had.

Cold Brew!

Brewed hot this is a really intensely – though also deliciously – flavoured tea. Like, a lot of work has been done to mask the vegetal notes of the moringa and I think it pays off. I was curious if that would be the case cold brewed since that longer steep time would give the more bitter green notes a fighting chance to overpower the flavours. For that reason, I was skeptical I’d enjoy this cold brew but also curious enough to want to test it out and see…

The short of it is that you can very clearly taste the moringa and it’s quite spinach-y in taste with a very “raw vegetable” vibe and bitterness. However, you can also still really strongly taste the creamy milk chocolate and sweet strawberry notes too. Since the moringa hits first and is then followed by the more decadent flavours, the thing that I couldn’t get out of my head as I sipped this was the imagery of a mother talking to their toddler and saying “Eat your vegetables first and then you can have dessert”. It was just so, so very apt.

So, overall… Kind of as expected here. Still very much drinkable and pleasant in some elements, but I’d probably still with brewing this one hot in the future.

Sipped on this one today and I still absolutely cannot get over how lovely it tastes. I mean, it is very clearly heavily flavoured and the strong chocolate and strawberry notes do have an artificial (but thankfully not chemical) edge to them, but I still think the combination is delicious and it’s practically a miracle how it’s able to mask the strong vegetal spinach tastes of the moringa. One of the best (if not the best) moringa teas I’ve come across at this point…

This was such an interesting herbal blend!

It’s incredibly tasty and flavourful for a moringa blend. Actually, probably more than it has any right to be. I get some of the less than pleasant vegetal spinach type notes on the top of the sip, but mostly this is deeply rich and sweet chocolate with a juicy strawberry flavour. It’s actually strangely indulgent and though I can tell that’s largely because it is loaded up with flavouring… I don’t mind.