Rainbow Sherbet

Oh God, what is this? I bought a 50g over the Internet and when I opened the bag, it smelled like vomit. It’s disgusting. It’s not helping me to love iced tea.

God I can’t get the smell out of my head.

I haven’t eating well in days because the smell made me want to hurl so bad.

I swear, I’m still having nightmare.

The most prominent fruit notes in this tea are pineapple and orange. There’s an underlying flavour of red fruit, likely raspberry, and a nice sweetness. The hibiscus adds body without the intensely tart taste I typically don’t appreciate in hibiscus teas. Honestly, I can barely taste the hibiscus. While this isn’t mind blowing by any stretch of the imagination, it’s a very nice fruity herbal tea that works well both iced and hot.

Iced tea made with 2 sample packs (I would guess just under 2 PS) steeped in a 1 liter mason jar, cooled to room temperature, then refrigerated overnight with the teabag. The colour was a light peachy pink and very summery! It did taste like fruit, mainly raspberry and orange, but it was kind of muddled. I really liked it though! I thought it was perfectly sweet (nothing added), cool, and refreshing.

I used this tea in my new iced tea press and it was great! I am not a fan of super sweet, so this tea on ice is perfect. I let it steep for a long time. Definetly will be purchasing it (it was a sample).

Rainbow Sherbet is probably my favorite tea from the summer collection which is a complete surprise to me. I was on the fence about it when I ordered because I don’t really care for pineapple-heavy teas, but it really does taste like pineapple/raspberry/orange sherbet to me. I kind of miss the lime flavor, because my favorite rainbow sherbets include lime, but I might try mixing it with Sweet Lime or just a squeeze of lime juice the next time I steep. I’ve read reviews/tasting notes comparing the flavor of this blend to Fruit Stripe gum and I completely agree. I’ll probably stock up on this one before the end of the season.

I wanted to like this tea, but something just seems off to me. It improved by adding some sweetener, but still not to my liking. It reminds me of a less flavorful version of Fruit Stripes gum. Not necessarily bad, but I’m not sure I’ll be finishing the 1 oz that I bought.

This is my second sample. I tried it iced. It looks very pretty and colorful. Smells WAY better than sour watermelon-a very fruity aroma I would say. And a sip later, I am in love. A very fruity tropical drink that is sure to be a thirst quencher on a nice summer day.

I like this tea, although it does need sweetener. I had this iced to go with some agave and it was nice and refreshing. I find it has an orangey taste to it, along with the other fruit that’s in it. I wouldn’t know if it tasted like rainbow sherbet, though.

So, of the four new teas in the summer collection this was my favourite!

I was a little surprised that I enjoyed it so much because when the teas were announced to staff I was pretty neutral towards it overall – I also thought it pretty weird that the blend doesn’t have lime. After all, I consider lime one of the key flavours of Rainbow Sherbet. You could call it… key lime. Pun very much intended.

But yeah, I kind of adore this tea even if the fruit notes in it ARE really muddled and somewhat non-descriptive, and there really isn’t any lime in it either. I mean, it is vaguely citrusy and it is vaguely red fruit tasting so you can kind of fill in the gaps mentally as orange and raspberry respectively. It’s just such a nice overall fruit flavour though. Plus, it hasthe perfect level of sweetness without anything added to it and it’s not really all that tart either.

That just makes for a really nice, refreshing and hydrating iced tea! Hard to complain about that…

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I REALLY like this. It is quite good. I think this might be one I stock up on which is good because I like the new tin designs so this is an excuse to get one.