Moana Princess Blend

Bancha? Yep.
Coconut? Definitely.
Fruit? Mild and a little tricky to sort out who’s who.
A thoughtful gray afternoon break from ashmanra? Of course!

Another Princess blend from Cameron!

Where Snow White was subtle and lightly flavored, very suiting the character it was meant to represent, Moana is loud and bright, vivacious and colorful.

This reminds me a bit of Tropical Green, but I confess I have not had that particular tea in almost a decade. Tropical Green is simpler – green tea and pineapple flavor, while Moana includes mango flavor and mango pieces. Tropical fruit and pineapple flavors dominate but I do feel like I taste the green base. I think there is supposed to be coconut here? But I don’t notice it in the taste.

Great tea, and might be a summertime purchase for next year!

Thank you, Cameron!

Okay, so after “seeing” ashmanra enjoying her new Minnie Mouse tea, I decided to take a (short) break from my sipdown madness and crack open one of the Disney teas that I ordered from Harney. I ended up getting Moana (green tea with mango, pineapple, orange, and coconut) and Snow White (white tea with apple) just because those were the flavors that appealed most to me. And I happen to love Moana (the movie) as well, and I just got back from a vacation in Hawai’i, so it worked out perfectly!

This tin is so cute, and the fact that it has a silhouette of Heihei (the chicken) on one of the sides gets bonus points from me, ha ha… The dry scent is intoxicating, strong juicy mango with pineapple and a hint of coconut.

And it tastes amazing too! Which makes me so, so happy because I just love this whole Disney collection. It reminds me of Passion Orange juice, which is super common in Hawai’i (along with Passion Orange Guava or POG). I guess the mango and pineapple are combining here to remind me of passion fruit? Mango is definitely the strongest flavor for me, with the pineapple adding tanginess and the orange giving it a citrusy-sweet note. The coconut is subtle at first, but blooms into a lovely creamy aftertaste that reminds me of sticky rice. The green base here is bancha, but you don’t taste a lot of it because the flavoring is quite powerful. I do pick it up at the very beginning of the sip, and it has a grassy flavor with hints of seaweed. It sounds weird, but I actually kind of like how it cuts through those ripe and juicy fruit notes every now and then.

Anyway, so pleased with this one. I’m not usually that interested in tropical green teas, just because I feel like it’s a category that’s been done to death and they tend to all taste similar. But I think this is a really nice execution of that flavor profile, and would definitely recommend it to mango lovers!