Marching to Pretoria- rooibos
 

My Upton tea samples came- ordered on Monday, delivered on Friday.
Hard to do better than that. The packets they came in look scaringly
like aluminum, but are very streamlined and pretty. I've opened the
Rooibos Pretoria; rooibus with four types of flower blossoms. The
stuff looks and smells like pipe tobacco. It brews into a very pretty
red-brown liquid, however, and smells better from the cup than from the
package. The taste is mild and, duh, flowery, but neither the rose
petals nor the hibiscus is distinct in the mixture. Toci