Green tea and mint is such a classic combination and it’s ideal for refreshing your palate after a heavy meal or just a long day. Dragonfly Moroccan Mint is a fresh blend of spearmint leaves and gunpowder green tea in teabag format. Let’s see if it does the trick today.
In this full tea review, you’ll find out what Dragonfly Moroccan Mint tea tastes like, how to brew it, where to buy it, and my genuine thoughts on whether it’s any good!
Dragonfly Moroccan Mint Tea at a Glance
Izzy’s Rating
- Blend: Organic spearmint leaves and gunpowder green tea
- Flavour: Intense garden mint with notes of nettles and dew wet herbs
Surprisingly, this tea is quite low in menthol brightness. Instead, it’s intense and verdant with notes of garden mint and nettles. The slick texture and drying quality make it an effective palate cleanser, though it does have a notable bitter aftertaste.
Full Review – Moroccan Mint Green Tea
- Type: Tagged paper teabag
- Tea: Organic gunpowder green tea
- Origin: Organic spearmint leaves
- Flavour Notes: Intense garden mint, herbaceous, nettles, morning dew
- Aroma: Warm spearmint, savoury broth, grass
- Milk or Lemon: Lemon and sugar/honey to taste
- Where to Buy: Amazon UK
Mint always makes for an intense experience, especially when you first open the box of teabags. The tingly warm menthol of spearmint hits you in the face and, unfortunately in this case, totally masks any subtler aromas coming from the green tea. Complex? No. Refreshing? Yes!
It brews very quickly into an orange-brown tea with a green hint. The aroma is strangely savoury. I took quite a few whiffs trying to figure it out and I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s a note of bone broth amidst the mint and grass aromas. Strange but not entirely unpleasant.
Thankfully there’s no meaty flavours in this tea (that would be a step too far, I think).
The flavour is led by intense garden mint notes. It has almost no menthol – that bright cold sensation you get most commonly from peppermint – and instead has a lingering herbaceousness that reminds me of nettle tea. If you stepped into a wild overgrown British garden on a spring morning after a night of persistent rain, you’d be reminded of this tea. It’s that kind of refreshing experience.
Mouthfeel is important for mint teas and Dragonfly nails it here. It’s slick and drying, a combination that never fails to freshen up your mouth and wash away any staleness or leftover flavours from your last meal.
My only real gripe with this tea is the aftertaste. It’s bitter and hard to wash away. If the mint had just a touch more menthol this wouldn’t be an issue, but the spearmint this brand is using has very little menthol in it.
How to Brew Moroccan Mint Tea
Dragonfly instruct you to brew a teabag for just one to two minutes for this blend, and I agree. I used water at 80°C but you can just let the kettle cool for a few minutes before pouring water into your cup, if you don’t want to be precise with a thermometer.
Quick and at a low temperature is the key to get the green tea to be a smooth and pleasant backdrop to the spearmint. If your water temperature is too high you risk scalding the tea leaves and making them too bitter.
For a healthy, refreshing drink you can have this tea as-is. If you want something a little more indulgent, add sugar or honey. To really go all out, a sprig of fresh mint or a slice of lemon is a nice touch too.
Why Dragonfly Tea?
Although their teabags leave a lot to be desired (standard bleached paper and finely chopped tea/herb leaves), the quality of the ingredients is one of the reasons I like Dragonfly Tea. Their Moroccan Mint is made with 70% gunpowder green tea and 30% spearmint – no flavourings, colourings, sweeteners or unnecessary extras.
The ingredients in this mint green tea are also organic – always a bonus – though I can’t see a specific certification like Soil Association.
Moroccan mint tea is also known as Maghrebi mint tea, originating in the Greater Maghreb region of North Africa. Traditionally, it is made with gunpowder green tea (check), spearmint leaves (check), and sugar (missing from Dragonfly’s tea). You can make it at home by adding sugar to your tea, or you can try a traditional recipe. This Moroccan mint tea recipe by Bewildered in Morocco is a good place to start.
Summary
If you want a quick and easy mint tea to make at home, I highly recommend Dragonfly Moroccan Mint. It’s herbaceous and grassy in a very pleasant way. Add a teaspoon of sugar for a sweeter experience and to counter some of the bitterness in the aftertaste.
You can find this tea in some UK supermarkets as well as on Amazon UK. I’ve added a link below so you can check the price (as an affiliate, I may earn a little commission if you make a purchase but at no additional cost to you).
Tea Recommendation
If you have a hankering for a super sweet, super minty and bright cup of tea, I recommend you check out Hampstead Fennel & Peppermint tea. This caffeine-free mint tea has fennel for a touch of anise sweetness. It’s really quite nice!
