Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Yerba Maté
Where to Buy: Maté Factor
Product Description:
Tropical Lime Yerba Mate Tea Bags (formerly Hibiscus Lime)
80% Organic IngredientsOur Tropical Lime tea box contains 20 large tea-bags. All of our tea-bags contain 3.5 grams of tea, DOUBLE the size of most tea-bags on the market, so you can enjoy more of the flavor, nutrition, and energizing effects of Yerba Mate!
Ingredients: Organic Green Yerba Mate, Organic Hibiscus Flowers, Sun-Dried Lime
High in Natural Vitamin C
This amazing, fruity blend is not only refreshing hot or cold, but is an amazing booster to your body’s defense system.
Taster’s Review:
As I’ve said on numerous occasions, I’m not that fond of hibiscus. Some hibiscus in blends is OK so long as it’s not overdone – it provides an interesting tart flavor and a little bit of body to a tisane – but, when there is too much hibiscus in a blend, it becomes too tart and too thick and syrupy.
In drinking this tea, I’m not sure if there is too much hibiscus here, or if it is just a tart tisane. The lime and hibiscus together create a rather sour pair. Nice if you enjoy sour or tart tastes, I’m not one of those people, though.
That being said, this isn’t thick or syrupy, which leads me to believe that it’s not too much hibiscus, it’s just the combination of lime and hibiscus that creates such a tart experience. It has a nice body to it. And I found that a drizzle of agave nectar helped to turn this rather tart cup into something quite good.
Interestingly enough, the earthy quality of the Yerba Maté in this blend cuts through some of the tart hibiscus taste, so I am getting more lime than I am hibiscus. Both the hibiscus and lime are still rather strong, but, the earthy nature of Yerba Maté saves this blend.
And who’d have thought I’d ever be happy for the earthy characteristic of Yerba Maté? Certainly not me, not until now! But somehow, the blending of earthy and tart work together quite nicely. The tart cuts through some of the musty flavors of the earthy tones while the earthy flavor smooths out some of the tarter edges. It works together well.
Now, I am not about to say that this is my favorite Yerba Maté blend, because it isn’t. But it is quite good and appealing in its own way. It is one that I would recommend to all you lovers of tart/sour tastes out there.
