Sipdown! (16 | 52)
I bought this one at the Honolulu store, mostly because of the pretty tin. It’s one of their decorative tins that’s not made for a specific tea. At least, I didn’t think they were made for specific teas, but this one reads「よろこび」(yorokobi), which apparently means joy, so maybe it was for this tea lol. The design is a pretty yellow-green background with an unrolled scroll, branches with pink and white plum blossoms, and a small green birb. Very spring-y and cute.
Sadly, the tea is just not doing it for me. I’ve been similarly underwhelmed by some of Lupicia’s other core fruity blend sort of green teas, like Paradise. This one mostly tastes of generic peach, but it’s quite bland and lacks the juicy quality of some of their other white peach teas. There’s supposedly grapefruit as well, and I suppose I do get a hint of grapefruit zestiness. But I end up tasting a whole lot of the generically dry grassy sencha base.
I do enjoy a lot of Lupicia’s other green teas though, like Momo Vert, Sakurambo, and Tsugaru. Can’t love them all I guess, even from my favorite tea company! Still happy to have the pretty tin. :)
Flavors: Artificial, Candy, Citrus, Dry Grass, Grapefruit, Grassy, Peach, Seaweed