Tea: Spring Cherry
Type: Green Tea
Packaging: Loose Leaf
Company: The Republic of Tea
Purchase: Here
Description: Beginner's Mind Tea. The essence of cherries & the sweet earthy taste of Japanese sencha leaves is a nice intro to the world of green teas. Rose petals & white paklum (rare, white tea buds) gives this tea its sweet, floral note.
Ingredients: ?
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 zarafina cup
Tool: Zarafina green-loose-mild
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: vegetation from a garden with fresh cherries, not the fake ones
Steeped Tea Smell: lightly grassy lightly cherry
Flavor: weak weak vegetal and cherry
Body: Light
Aftertaste: none
Liquor: nearly clear watery green
I was so sad, I had been so excited.
You see a long time ago I fell in love with the "Memoirs of a Geisha" spring cherry green from ROT. Then of course they stopped having it. I was not the tea addict I was now, and so I just sullenly sought out other cherry greens (teavana etc).
Then I decided to ask ROT, and they promptly let me know Spring Cherry was the same tea!
SoccerMom had found some after my fruitless searches (I didn't want enough tea to make a full order with free shipping).
When it arrived I was ecstatic. The next morning I woke up and made some (this is a backlog, sorry I have been busy). I am not a morning person and I woke up extra early just for this.
A song ran through my mind:
My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold
My angel is a centerfold
Angel is a centerfold
Oh misery oh sadness, was it ever delicious, was I deluding myself?
Well it wasn't bitter so perhaps I should resteep stronger.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: Zarafina 1 c green-loose-medium
SUCCESS
Next time I need to start with medium on this tea.
Light vegetal taste and a low presence of cherry, real cherries not fake cherries. I would like them stronger, but every green cherry tea I have tried that was stronger the cherries were sickly sweet fake.
Rating: 4/4 leaves
Leaf system:
1=Bleh! not again if it were free
2=Acceptable, if it were free or there were limited other tea options
3=I might purchase this tea from time to time, or select it while out
4=A staple in our cupboard from now on, I will purchase and keep purchasing
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