Here's another Mighty Leaf offering obtained from a stay at College of DuPage's little on-campus hotel. I must say, few hotels (even including the likes of Hilton or Hyatt), or Air-BnB type places I've ever seen, provide such an expensive tea brand, and they had multitudes of several flavors. That was a nice touch! However, the per-bag online prices make me cringe (the lowest I found being $8.16 for 15-ct box at Office Supply, of all places). I'm guessing the hotel got it wholesale for a good bit less.

As with most (all?) Mighty Leaf teas, the "bags" really are fixed doses of loose-leaf product, sewn into silken sachets with a cloth thread that extends to a paper tag. Chunks of lemongrass, orange peel and dried reddish rose hips and hibiscus are readily apparent, as are spearmint leaves, whitish pieces of orange blossoms, and the quite finely chopped chamomile flowers. The blend also contains lemon myrtle. Dry-bag aroma is mostly lemony, with some chamomile, generic fruitiness and mint apparent—nice, but nowhere nearly as rich as the flavor.

In steeping a few bags, both there and at home, I found that the flavor gets good at 3-4 minutes, but is strongest well north of five (say, 6-8 minutes), then levels off approximately asymptotically thereafter. At some point, you start sacrificing thermal heat for stronger taste, so I'd advise basing your steeping on how hot you want this, more than how tasty. And it is quite tasty!

Even though the tea is categorized here as Chamomile Blend, that flavor takes a decided backseat to the fruitiness, which is a strong, balanced, naturally sweet, citrusy lemon/orange blend with a fruit-punch character probably brought about by addition of hibiscus and rose hips. There's also a slight bitterness, not offputting but somewhat surprising. I don't know where that comes from. With mild mint and faint chamomile also floating in the taste and aroma, it yields a flavor profile unique in my tea-drinking experience, a song of taste I like a lot. Just don't expect much chamomile in the choir.

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