226/365
This came as a free sample with my last Leaves of the World order, and to be honest I didn’t have the highest expectations. It’s rooibos, for a start, and chocolate flavoured. Neither of those things tend to be my favourite. In practice, though, it’s actually pretty good. I get orange first, and while it’s a little reminiscent of fizzy vitamins I do get “jaffa cake” from it. The orange in jaffa cakes seems pretty artificial to me anyway. I also get dark chocolate, and for once it doesn’t taste watery. I don’t think it’s trying to be particularly strong or prominent, though, so maybe that’s why. It lingers nicely in the aftertaste, and it works really well as a backdrop for the (much stronger) orange. The rooibos base is also pretty well behaved. It’s a little woody, but not metallic or brassy in the way that rooibos sometimes can be.
I liked this one a lot more than I was expecting to, and now I kind of want to try it as a latte…