Cool Cactus

Cool Cactus is my favorite of the sunshine collection. It’s fruity and kind of reminds me of the swampwater tea david’s tea had a while ago. It’s nice this is sweet tasting as you’re getting the green tea benefits. Yum!

Full disclosure here, I probably over brewed this tea by a few minutes, but I prefer my brews to be on the strong side. That being said, the first flavor I taste off the bat is sweet. This is not a sugar free tea. The sweetness comes from the strong pineapple and strawberry presence in this blend, making the forward notes very fruity. The rose hips, lemon, or other floral flavors are definitely distant and hard to detect. I’m not sure what prickly pear cactus tastes like, but there is a slightly earthier sweet note on the aftertaste that might be the cactus. For a green tea, this is very light on the grassier notes I expect to taste, and feels almost more herbal. A fun tea to try but I’m not sure that I’d buy a whole bag to bring home.

nope. not for me. had this again today in an attempt to make a decision. Decision made… there’s something going on with these ingredients that leaves a weird taste in my mouth. blech.

Hmm, interesting.

The dry leaf smells kind of fruity and musty, a touch earthy.

Steeped, this is mildly sweet and tart, again some of that earthy, musty note, and there’s a curious flavour that I can’t quite pin down. It’s almost savoury but not umami or vegetal (not any of the usual vegetal notes anyway); kind of juicy and slippery tasting (I don’t know how to better describe it – the slippery isn’t a mouth feel, it’s a taste.) It might be one of those things you need to experience yourself.

Not a fan of this. It’s okay but I don’t feel interested in a second cup, and I will likely pass on the rest of my sample to someone else.

I don’t have much experience with green tea. This one is not bad at all, but defiently not a new favourite for me. I would of liked more pineapple taste than what I got, so Im glad I only bought a small packet now and probibaly wont replace it when its gone.

This is so good. So, so, good. It’s lemongrassy and pineappley and there’s an undercurrent of something I can’t describe except to say it does make me think of cactus and agave and all things wonderful and delicious. I need more of this. NEED.

I love this. It’s a smooth green tea that has a subtle but very pleasing tangy quality from the prickly pear.

Drinking this today brought me back to my desert travels over the past couple of years… Sigh, I miss it so much! This is exactly what I hoped DT would come up with – a tea with an entirely different flavour profile than the offerings they currently have (as I’m pretty sure there’s nothing with prickly pear already?). My favourite out of the three new teas, for sure, and I’m happy that it’s a green, as I need to start drinking that more.

I very much enjoy prickly pear, so the advent of this tea excited me greatly. The smell is wonderful and the taste is sweet, soft and mild – precisely what I’d expect from something with ‘Cactus’ in the title. You can’t have strong flavors there. It brews very nicely and very evenly, strong enough for a rebrew, and I anticipate it will be very nice cold as well.

Dry Leaf Nose: Pineapple and prickly pear cactus are the dominant notes

Liquor: A golden green with a clear aroma of a prickly pear cactus

Flavour Notes: The sweet flavour of a prickly pear cactus is the most noticeable flavour with sweet pineapple becoming more prominent.