Whittard – Mango & Bergamot
Whittard say the green tea in their Mango & Bergamot tea has been “steamed for freshness, and then blended with juicy mango and citrusy bergamot”. I feel like using the word ‘blended’ in this context is over-egging things a bit.
There’s no actual bergamot or mango in this tea and the eponymous fruits are present only as ‘flavourings’. There’s a whole load of petals – cornflower, sunflower and rose – in the loose leaf blend, although these are absent from the teabag version. I think that some actual mango chunks would have (literally) sweetened the deal.
This is a pretty underwhelming tea. It probably doesn’t help that I had it so soon after Tea Mountain’s Angel’s Kiss, which does the same sort of thing only much, much better. Whittard are one of my favourite teamongers and I usually have a lot of respect for their tea blends, but I found Mango & Bergamot tea to be just a warm cup of “meh”.
It’s not undrinkable, but none of the flavours are really doing anything. The green tea itself is a sort of lacklustre affair. A good green tea can often do fruity flavours all on its own without any outside help, but this isn’t one of them. It lacks any notable flavour. I wanted tasty Camelia sinensis as a backdrop for my mango and bergamot and I’m not getting that here.
In fact, – and here I think we’re getting to the nub of my disappointment – it doesn’t really taste much like tea at all. Whittard Mango & Bergamot tea might as well be a fruity herbal tisane nonsense. And we all know how I feel about those.
Fans of delicately scented cups of hot water might find something to enjoy here. But it’s a (mang)No from me.
Today’s featured book is The Ring and The Book by Robert Browning. Because it’s green.
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