This is my third cherry tea, the others being Teaopia’s Wild Cherry herbal tisane and Silk Road’s Japanese Sour Cherry green tea.
Unlike the Wild Cherry, Cherry potion has quite a tart bite to it, thanks to the hibiscus.
I actually like the hibiscus in this! It reminds me of Bear Trap, crisp and fruity, really refreshing both hot and iced. I can’t drink the Wild Cherry hot, it’s too sweet and too much like a ripe cherry, and something about hot cherries doesn’t sit right with me (can you tell I don’t like hot cherry pie? haha).
The Bai Mu Dan definitely takes a back seat in this one, but I’m not sure it’s entirely a bad thing. At the same time, I feel like this would go wonderfully with a green base, something nice and crisp to compliment the crispness of the cherry and hibiscus. I feel like the white base is too soft, too subtle, it needs something with more oomph, you know?
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This would be better as a straight herbal, IMO! Or, mixed with a delicious sort of green that DT would never use, haha (e.g. not sencha).
I only just recently (in the last 6 months) started enjoying green tea, and so the only japanese greens I really know are sencha and gyokuro, and gyokuro definitely wouldn’t go too well in this one, and I’m not a huge Chinese green fan really.
(also, the only straight sencha I actually like [so far] is DAVIDs Sencha Ashikubo. I need more Japanese greens dangit!)
This would be better as a straight herbal, IMO! Or, mixed with a delicious sort of green that DT would never use, haha (e.g. not sencha).
I only just recently (in the last 6 months) started enjoying green tea, and so the only japanese greens I really know are sencha and gyokuro, and gyokuro definitely wouldn’t go too well in this one, and I’m not a huge Chinese green fan really.
(also, the only straight sencha I actually like [so far] is DAVIDs Sencha Ashikubo. I need more Japanese greens dangit!)