Yay free sample! Thanks again to Laurent and Dorian at Nina’s for the opportunity to try this one. I love genmaicha and I was excited to see how good it is with caramel and vanilla. Plus this one has quite a following around here, so I knew it had to be good! It certainly looks like genmaicha, aside from the black tea leaves. Mine had a couple of pieces of popped corn in addition to the roasted kernels. Smells vaguely caramelly but nothing too amazing. Steeped for two minutes!
The aroma of the brewed tea is much more exciting! I can smell the toasty rice mixed with the vanilla and caramel for a marshmallow treat-like scent. Mmmm! The taste is not necessarily what I expected. For some reason, from the combinations of these ingredients, the first taste I get is coconut! Whaaaat…? Then I taste dried autumn leaves, I assume from the sencha, and at the end I get more vanilla. The caramel is there, but not necessarily as a sweet taste (I don’t know if that makes sense! :P). It’s more of a richness than a candy-sweet flavor. I don’t really get black tea from this, aside from some astringency and bitterness that suggests to me that I may have steeped this incorrectly… Hmm. I have enough left for maybe a half-cup so I guess I’ll try a lower temperature or something. Either way, this tea is mighty tasty and I will definitely be purchasing it at some point! :D
Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Caramel, Coconut, Toasted Rice, Vanilla
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Interesting. That sounds like an excellent combination of flavors.
It’s very good! I didn’t really see anyone else mention coconut so you might disregard that one… ;)
I didn’t get coconut from this, but I did like it a lot! I agree about the caramel being more rich than sweet tasting. That’s a good description :-)
Interesting. That sounds like an excellent combination of flavors.
It’s very good! I didn’t really see anyone else mention coconut so you might disregard that one… ;)
I didn’t get coconut from this, but I did like it a lot! I agree about the caramel being more rich than sweet tasting. That’s a good description :-)