Sakurambo Vert

One of my favorite teas. It’s very green and fresh tasting. I don’t get an overpowering blast of heavy cherries, more like a light fruity breeze. Perfect for iced tea.

I recently finished off (and quite enjoyed) the black tea version of this tea. Now I’m working through the green tea version, and honestly, the flavoring itself is pretty spot-on to the black version: a light and subtle cherry flavor lacking of syrupy or medicinal qualities, with this really fresh pine note from the rosemary. The green tea base can be a bit biting unless I go pretty light on the leaf, but in the right amount it has a very lovely vegetal and buttery flavor, definitely my preference in a sencha over more seaweedy/oceanic sencha. The fresh green flavor of the base goes really well with the soft fruitiness and clean pine notes. I enjoyed it warm, but have really been enjoying it coldbrewed, 5g to a liter of water left in the fridge to steep overnight.

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An old favorite – both the black and green versions. This particular pouch was from 2019 (and my second-oldest tea), so I’m glad to have it finished off.

I think I might actually like the green version slightly more, because it’s on a nice sencha base (as opposed to a larger leaf, later harvest version) and the umami notes just pair so well with the savory rosemary and cherry. I don’t even like cherry flavoring, but it tastes so different here and I can’t help but love it.

Definitely on the reorder list, as I’m out of the black tea version as well!

Yeah… I love Lupicia, at least what I’ve tried from them so far and this was just a miss. I had it hot last night and didn’t enjoy it and now I’m having it cold brewed and I think it made it worse. My mom likes it so I’m going to can the cold brew for her but… I don’t know. I think the combination of peppercorns and the fruit is what hit me weirdly, I love rosemary so it wasn’t that it just tasted like soap and not in a good way like the Bertie Botts Jelly Belly.

First tea of the new year!

More of an exploratory tea than a favorite tea. My tea resolution is to save my tea budget this year for enjoying tea in japan on our eventual vacation.

I might be on steepster less come late february as we are planning on getting a puppy and i imagine writing tea reviews may get forgotten.

Preparation: Western
Tasting note: I am used to green tea instructions saying to never boil green tea so I ended up putting it at 90C instead. I get a little grassiness and a floral cherriness. It does sort of have that medicinal cherry going on but not overly sugar, which i prefer. I am liking it as it cools down but I don’t think I love the combo.

This tastes more like a white nectarine than cherry to me. Not disappointed in the least by that.

Finished off the rest of this as a cold brew. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it! This was a pleasant tasting cold brew and very convenient for a grab-and-go tea. The cherry is balanced and not as strong when prepared this way.

I don’t like this one as much as the black tea version. Honestly, the green tea kills it. It’s me not liking green tea, not that the tea is bad. I also think that the flavor overwhelms the tea.

For years I’ve had the decaf black version of this tea and I have to say, the green tastes pretty much the same. The sour cherry flavor is so rich that I can’t pick out the tea base and I think that is true with the black version as well. I must have picked up this sample tea bag a couple months ago when I was last in a Lupica store and I’m super glad I have it when I’m on the go and at work! Thanks Lupicia! I might consider swapping the black for the green next time I need a refill on my loose leaf stash.

Pictures here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sdxOTABar/

I loved their grapefruit green so I had a feeling I’d like this one too. The cherry isn’t medicinal tasting and more importantly, it’s tart. The way I prefer cherries. Yum! It’s really good hot or iced.

I should buy another one… Oh man. #HoardCity