Sipdown! (32 | 77)
I was organizing my Obubu subscription packets by date, as I’ve created a section on my tea nook counter specifically for sipping down Obubu teas, and found that I only had one 5g packet of this tea left for the 2020 harvest. Hooray, easy sipdown! :3
For some reason I never remember this sencha, not sure why that is. It has a lovely light and sweetly creamy vegetal flavor, and also a soft dry grass note that makes me think of tall grass swaying gently in the breeze under the summer sun. A bit specific isn’t it, lol… Creamy edamame fades into a light nuttiness, like a less buttery cashew perhaps. Also getting a fair bit of sakura, especially in the aroma, though the essence also seems to float up from my mouth to my nasal cavity while I’m drinking the tea. There’s a refreshing astringency at the tail end of the sip. Obubu’s description mentions orange and cinnamon, huh? Clearly I’m missing something. :P
A lovely lighter sencha, perfect for a lazy afternoon tea break. Happily, I still have one more batch of this (more, always more :P), from the 2021 harvest. Oddly, Obubu seems to send this tea out at the end of the year, even though it’s a spring harvest. I wonder why that is…
Flavors: Astringent, Cashew, Dry Grass, Floral, Nuts, Peas, Sakura, Smooth, Soybean, Spinach, Sweet, Umami, Vegetal
