Numi: Moonlight Spice
An organic orange spice white tea. The tea is very spicy…
Ingredients: Organic Cinnamon, Organic Orange Peel, Organic Cloves, Fair Trade Certified and Organic Pai Mu Tan white tea, Organic Hibiscus, Organic Allspice, Organic Ginger, Organic Schizandra Berries, Organic Lemongrass, Dried Lime.
The first thing you notice with this flavored white tea is the powerful aroma coming from the dried ingredients. The cloves are very strong. I detect a faint scent of orange peel. Honestly, the tea sachet has such a high-powered aroma, I can’t detect many of the ingredients due to the cloves. After steeping the tea in near boiling water for about 6 minutes. The first sip tingles my tongue with an explosion of flavors. The flavor is spicy like an authentic chai and tangy like a citrus beverage. The aroma from the tea is just too much for me to thoroughly enjoy. It’s reminiscent of an air freshener or potpourri. The white tea is really lost in this mix. There are too many dominant flavors working against each other. I was looking forward to an orange flavored white tea with a light spice accent, but this tea was over-the-top. Unfortunately, this tea did not appeal to me. As always, I still greatly respect Numi. Their efforts to incorporate fair trade and organic ingredients in their products should not go unnoticed.
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Tags: Numi Organic Tea, White Tea