This Week's Tea: Razzmatazz

Organic Razzmatazz from David's Tea

Description: This tangy fruit-filled tea is the jazziest drink around. A tart blend of rosehips, lemongrass, hibiscus and raspberries, it tastes just like a ripe, juicy berry. It’s incredible hot or iced, but our favourite way to drink it is the Razzmatazz Fizz: brew a double-strong cup, then top your glass up with soda water. Stir in a little agave and a squirt of lime, and it’ll take you to the moon. Trust us – this drink is aces. The Real McCoy. You’ll flip your lid.

Ingredients: Organic: rosehips, lemongrass, lemon verbena, hibiscus, rooibos, raspberries, stevia. With organic and natural flavouring

(From David's Tea: Organic Razzmatazz)


Steph's Thoughts:
There's a reason this tea has been designated Tea of the Week rather than tea of the day..... This is probably one of my favourite teas. I emailed the company last week to see if they could make it a part of their permanent collection, and they assured me that they would be. Apparently I'm not the only one who's jazzed for Razzmatazz. (yeah, sorry. That was bad...)

This is a tea that tastes as amazing hot as it does cold. This week, I've been drinking it cold, so that's where my review is going to be centred, but rest assured, it DOES taste as good hot as it does cold.

The first sip is loaded with raspberry tea goodness, but there's a hint of something else there. I think it's the lemongrass or lemon verbena. It's a hint of something not raspberry, anyway. But it's so good and amazing that you have to take another sip.... and then another... And before you know it, the whole jug of tea is gone and you have to make some more.

AND if you brew the tea according to instructions the first time, you can reuse the tea leaves for the second batch. Which is good, because eight spoonfuls of tea is not something you want to take lightly. That's EIGHT CUPS of hot tea. More, if you're like me and reuse the tea bags (sometimes!).

Somehow, I'm reminded of Gollum and his ring going, "My preeeccciiooouuuusssssss." I love this tea so much that I'm torn between making it for EVERYBODY and keeping it all to myself. BUT now that David's Tea has assured me it'll be available after summer, I'm a little less selfish about it.

The thing that I love about this is that it's like juice, but it's TEA! You don't have to add sugar to your brewed tea, though I tend to, because I'm a sweet-a-holic.This is one tea that doesn't REALLY need sugar. So then it's fruity like juice without all the "GAK SUGAR" feeling of juice. It's like juice for grown-ups! Or something. Iunno.

Either way. Hot or iced, sweetened or unsweetened, Razzmatazz is definitely a winner. I'm not the only one who thinks so either. I served it to a friend of mine yesterday and she really loved it. So yay, homemade raspberry iced tea! It tastes so much better than the the stuff you get at restaurants, which is like lemon iced tea with a shot of sugary flavouring thrown in. That is not iced tea, people. At least, not the iced tea that I'm used to drinking. Fresh brewed tea, poured over ice.... that's iced tea. Nom Nom.