Let’s Do Tea – After 7 Seven Rooibos and Strawberry Green Tea Review

Today I will be reviewing 2 more teas I have from Let’s Do Tea – After Seven 7 Rooibos and Strawberry Green tea.

Or should I say, After 8 Rooibos tea?

I’ll be starting with the rooibos first.  The ingredients of After Seven 7 Rooibos are rooibos, brittle bits, chocolate-nut bits, peppermint leaves, and flavourings.  Call this priming, but after I smelt this tea I was reminded of Nestle After Eights Thin Mints!  The tea smelt very strongly of mint with an undertone of chocolate.  The color became a brilliant golden brown.  The body was smooth in body and full of chocolaty mintiness.  There was also a hint of nuttiness.  Yum.  Seriously, if Nestle After Eights Thins Mints was a tea, this would be it.  So if you love minty chocolate without the guilt, this caffeine free tea is definitely for you.

Buttery strawberry popcorn in a tea

The ingredients of the Strawberry Green are sencha green tea, fog tea, pai mu tan, lung chin, genmaicha, strawberry bits, sunflower blossoms, and flavourings.  This tea contains gluten.  I wasn’t even aware that tea can contain gluten!  I wonder where it came from.  Wow.  This tea smells exactly like buttery popcorn.  You have to smell this!  The roasted brown rice from the genmaicha is coming off very strongly in this tea.  There is a faint alluring aroma of strawberries in the background.  Double wow.  This tea is so amazingly buttery at first sip.  This is one of the best loose teas I have had in a while.  The strawberries and the smoky richness of the genmaicha complement each other so well.  Phew here comes the caffeine.  Sidenote – last night I had a cup of Mighty Leaf Tea at Moxie’s really late (my friend wanted beer and I don’t drink) and I ended staying up till 7 am because of all the caffeine!

After 8 Thin Mints and Buttery Strawberry Popcorn tea.  Tea tasting doesn’t get any more fun than this.    Cheers.

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Japanese Tea with the 14th Dalai Lama and Richard Branson

I had a 3 hour lunch today with someone I haven’t seen in years who just got back from London. No matter how you spin it, nothing beats tea when you are trying to have a great conversation. This especially rings true when you are trying to catch up with someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time. There’s a reason it’s the second most consumed beverage in the world.

Our lunch today at Maki Sushi in Thornhill was 3 hours long, meaning 3 hours of conversing. Only tea could have stirred the senses and driven the conversation to dance from literature to meetings with world leaders to traveling to learning new languages and to life. While I was eating lunch with Charissa she revealed to me that she met the 14th Dalai Lama twice! in Johannesburg and conversed with Richard Branson (he’s very shy) among other notaries. What was revealing of her London charm was when she confessed she put out her right hand in a dainty manner to greet the Dalai Lama instinctually as it is a British tradition when ladies meet gents. He didn’t kiss it though, he held it. I think if he kissed it, she would have made headlines around the world.

When trying to eat sushi and get so much conversation in, nothing chases down the meal better than Japanese tea. It’s the only pairing that fits. It’s like having Chinese tea with a Chinese meal, it works because it’s traditional, it’s historic and they complement each other so well that no other substitute would work. I had a vegetarian dragon roll (a tempura sweet yam, asparagus and avocado roll) with genmaicha or brown rice tea. Although this restaurant style genmaicha in the silver pot you see to the left was a very weak brew any tea is nice when you are super thirsty and you need help digesting all that sticky rice! Although you aren`t suppose to drink while eating because it hinders nutrient absorption, I rather sacrifice maximum nutrient absorption for a more complete dining experience. ?

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