This long-named tea is (for now) online at World Market and eBay, and in-store at the former, but not Republic of Tea's (RoT's) own site. [Early aside: what is an "enhanced waltz"? Are the music time and dance steps faster?] The typically (for RoT) cylindrical steel container had 36 small round pouches of tea stacked like potato chips inside. A sticker adorned the lid, and was labeled as, "LIMITED EDITION", perhaps just for this 2025 holiday season? Just in case that's true, I'm reviewing it soon after grabbing some, in time to be useful for other readers before it runs out.

If this is a limited run, that's too bad, because this is a really friendly, sweet, mellow tea suitable not only for drinking around Christmastime but anytime. Ingredients include rooibos, "natural flavors", nutmeg, roasted dandelion root, orange peel, cinnamon, cloves, bourbon vanilla powder, pink Himalayan salt and vanilla extract. It's basically a vanilla/nutmeg rooibos tea, rather caramel-like, which I found quite delicious. The other herbs sometimes faintly whisper from assorted far frontiers of the nostril or tongue. Interestingly, vanilla and nutmeg dominate the aroma and flavor so much that it's hard to tease out the other herbs, even cinnamon. Cinnamon is present a bit in the aftertaste, and in the warming effect it imparts underneath the more-dominant flavors. Occasionally a hint of the cloves came through, and I couldn't taste or smell the orange whatsoever. Yet this stuff was quite good.

RoT tends to use too-small quantities in little round pouches, and could stand to put a lot more in each pouch here, since wet rooibos doesn't swell up anywhere nearly as much as true tea. I've often had to double up to get best flavor in any RoT product, thereby dragging even more severely on the "value" rating than I do here. It's still rather expensive at 39¢ a pop as of this writing. At least rooibos doesn't seem to "go bad" or get excessively bitter with long steeping, even with dandelion root as an ingredient. So...just soak the bag for 10-12 minutes, which should draw out all possible flavor from one bag. Or double up if steeping for less time.

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