I got this as a free sample in my David’s order, and I have to admit, when I opened the box my first ungrateful thought was, “For the love of God, no more rooibos.” It seems like someone is always sending me a rooibos sample, and I just have no interest in the stuff.
The tea is chock full of ginger though, enough to mask the rooibos taste, and as usual with David’s tea, it gets marks for presentation; the bright peppercorns really dress it up. So it’s not nearly as bad as I feared, but still, not something I would buy either, and it leaves me feeling a bit ambivalent about the David’s sample system in general. I mean, on the one hand, surprises are cool. I got to try something I would never have picked out for myself. But on the hand, if you’re out of range of a store, these little free samples are the only way to try anything from David’s short of blindly ordering 50 gram packs of something you’ve never had before. I really appreciate Teavivre’s system of letting you choose your own samples. Or even Harney and Sons, where you pay a little for each sample, but at least you can get what you want.
Barring this, maybe David’s could put a little note area on the order form, so people could write things like, “Please, please, please, No Rooibos. Have mercy on my caffeine-craving soul!”
Flavors: Ginger
