Sakurambo Vert

One of my favorite teas. It’s very green and fresh tasting. I don’t get an overpowering blast of heavy cherries, more like a light fruity breeze. Perfect for iced tea.

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Love this one. I find the flavor slightly difficult to explain. It is sort of cherry-ish, but in a tart dried cherry sort of way rather than a sweet, ripe one. And I guess it must be the rosemary that adds a lovely savory, herbaceous note. The sencha base is nice quality, with darker and more slender leaves than some of their other flavored greens.

I’m not sure whether I like the green or black version better, luckily I have one more packet of both. I’ll have to do a side-by-side tasting to determine which one I want to continue ordering…

Yeah… I love Lupicia, at least what I’ve tried from them so far and this was just a miss. I had it hot last night and didn’t enjoy it and now I’m having it cold brewed and I think it made it worse. My mom likes it so I’m going to can the cold brew for her but… I don’t know. I think the combination of peppercorns and the fruit is what hit me weirdly, I love rosemary so it wasn’t that it just tasted like soap and not in a good way like the Bertie Botts Jelly Belly.

First tea of the new year!

More of an exploratory tea than a favorite tea. My tea resolution is to save my tea budget this year for enjoying tea in japan on our eventual vacation.

I might be on steepster less come late february as we are planning on getting a puppy and i imagine writing tea reviews may get forgotten.

Preparation: Western
Tasting note: I am used to green tea instructions saying to never boil green tea so I ended up putting it at 90C instead. I get a little grassiness and a floral cherriness. It does sort of have that medicinal cherry going on but not overly sugar, which i prefer. I am liking it as it cools down but I don’t think I love the combo.

This tastes more like a white nectarine than cherry to me. Not disappointed in the least by that.

Finished off the rest of this as a cold brew. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it! This was a pleasant tasting cold brew and very convenient for a grab-and-go tea. The cherry is balanced and not as strong when prepared this way.

I don’t like this one as much as the black tea version. Honestly, the green tea kills it. It’s me not liking green tea, not that the tea is bad. I also think that the flavor overwhelms the tea.

For years I’ve had the decaf black version of this tea and I have to say, the green tastes pretty much the same. The sour cherry flavor is so rich that I can’t pick out the tea base and I think that is true with the black version as well. I must have picked up this sample tea bag a couple months ago when I was last in a Lupica store and I’m super glad I have it when I’m on the go and at work! Thanks Lupicia! I might consider swapping the black for the green next time I need a refill on my loose leaf stash.

Pictures here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sdxOTABar/

I loved their grapefruit green so I had a feeling I’d like this one too. The cherry isn’t medicinal tasting and more importantly, it’s tart. The way I prefer cherries. Yum! It’s really good hot or iced.

I should buy another one… Oh man. #HoardCity

As a category, cherry green teas are in my personal pantheon of flavored greens. Jasmine will probably always and forever be no. 1, and I like a good grapefruit green, too. But it’s really a toss up where cherry fits in. I want to say second, but I worry that the minute I say that something will change my mind. Let’s say top 3-ish?

This one has a strong, medicinal cherry smell in the tin, but after steeping it is much mellower and more subtle. The tea is pale yellow and clear, with a tinge of green.

I was a little worried because someone else compared this to Kotobuki, which I didn’t care for. But I like how this tastes. In any case, I like it better than the Kotobuki.

I’ve had some cherry green teas that were sweeter, and I think on balance I prefer a little more sweetness. But there’s a place for a cherry that’s not really sweet but still captures the essence of cherry. I don’t find this tart or bitter at all. Just not sweet.

Which makes it interesting. As we head in to winter, I don’t think this is the best seasonal choice - it’s spring-like and refreshing - but if I don’t run out of green tea before spring I’ll try to hold onto it until then when it will hit the spot.