Today’s tea review is a popular tea from Lupicia – Golden Honeydew rooibos! Golden Honeydew is a California honeydew melon scented, green rooibos tea with marigold petals. I believe this tea is a San Francisco exclusive tea, as it was available for us non San Fran folk online only during special promotions. However, at the time of writing this, it is available without mention of it being limited time availability. I heard from many people this is one of the best Lupicia teas, so I had purchased it with my last Lupicia order.
My Golden Honeydew rooibos came in the special edition tin, fancy!
Inside the tin is the regular Lupicia packaging.
Dry Leaf
The rooibos smells quite strongly of honeydew. Unfortunately, it does smell on the artificial side. The appearance is sticky green rooibos and flowers, however looking at the Lupicia website, their leaf picture show mystery chunks which I don’t see in mine. Mystery chunks aren’t in the ingredient list either.
I do like Lupicia as their blends are really good, but they seem to have a running problem with not listing everything in their ingredient lists and being really vague on their website.
Steeping Instructions
I followed the steeping instructions on the packet, so I steeped about 5 grams of tea with boiling water for 3 minutes.
Steeped up, Golden Honeydew rooibos smells mega melony with orange gold colour.
Tasting of Lupicia’s Golden Honeydew Rooibos
Golden Honeydew Rooibos is very sweet. It certainly tastes like melon, somewhat like honeydew. The flavor mostly reminds me of those green melon flavored candies than natural honeydew flavor. The melon flavor is on strong side. If you overleaf like I did a few times, it can be soapy with the melon flavor being so intense. The base is pretty neutral that I cannot taste it, or the melon simply overpowered the green rooibos. However, what I do like about this tea is it is not watery, which often rooibos tends to be.
Not pictured, but I have made Golden Honeydew Rooibos iced and it was pretty good. No sweetener needed!
Comments
Lupicia’s Golden Honeydew Rooibos would be perfect for people who love melon flavor. It is a good new tea drinker tea as there is little tea flavor, making the bridge from soda or juice barely a hop to tea. This tea would also make an excellent tea for kids since there is no caffeine and it is fruity sweet. I would also recommend Golden Honeydew Rooibos for a tea for sweet tooths who want a tea they don’t need to add sugar to – save the calories!
