Sipdown! (1 | 1)
First sipdown of the year with a New Year tea! Happy New Year, tea friends!
This is Obubu’s version of obukucha, or good fortune tea. It’s a tea traditionally drunk around the new year to bring good luck. I’ve had a few different versions before, some having genmaicha or other bases, and usually with some form of gold flake to symbolize prosperity. This one is a sencha base – their Sencha of the Wind to be exact – and then it comes with little packets of dried ume and konbu knots to add into your cup, and then gold leaf to sprinkle on top.
It’s tasty! Sencha of the Wind is a shaded (or kabuse) sencha, so it has a slightly intense deep umami flavor with a good bit of sweetness. Not quite to the gyokuro level of intensity, but halfway there. Very deep and rich spinach notes that make you feel like you’re drinking a healthy smoothie, in a good way. And then the ume adds a nice tart fruity note to it, and the konbu adds salinity and a slightly different umami note. There’s also a nice, almost slippery silkiness that’s probably coming from the konbu as well.
Obubu sends this one out every year in their December box, and I’m actually still a year behind, so I’m drinking the obukucha I received at the end of 2020. I’ll try to remember to sip down my new 2021 packet this year so I’ll be caught up next January, ha ha! :P
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Flavors: Grass, Mineral, Plum, Salt, Seaweed, Silky, Spinach, Sweet, Tart, Thick, Umami, Vegetal
Oh man, I wish I had thought to do a sipdown today! Maybe it isn’t too late…
I really like the idea of this! Is it available only through subscription?
Hmm I guess so, I don’t see it on their website. I’ll send you my other package!