Grape Jasmine Tea

Yum!

I love this sort of Japanese-style grape flavoring, and it goes so well with the jasmine here. The grape definitely takes center stage, with jasmine in more of a supporting role. It’s just so sweet and fruity and floral, but with nice depth from the grape. My only complaint is the green tea doesn’t seem to have much flavor? It’s very mild, and the flavoring is strong, so I don’t really taste it. A touch of earthiness perhaps, and mineral notes. I bet it would be wonderful iced as well.

I’m a bit conflicted on ordering more, partially because it’s only available in individually-wrapped sachets (which just seems wasteful) and partially because I always stock Jingle Bells from Lupicia and I’m not sure I need more than one grape tea…

For pretty much as long as I’ve been a tea drinker I’ve been saying that jasmine teas always taste like grapes to me, so when I saw that Seven Teahouse had a grape jasmine blend I kind of lost my fucking mind. I just needed to taste it.

Here’s the thing. The grape oolong from Seven Teahouse is far superior to this. It’s better balanced, and the mix of naturally floral oolong with their particular grape flavouring is more complimentary. However, on a deeply personal level, this was more satisfying. It tastes exactly like the grape note I always pick out of jasmine teas but amplified ten fold.

I’m not huge on jasmine teas in the first place (especially on green tea bases), and I thought that overall this was a bit too intensely flavoured but it did blow my mind a little bit to see that rather obscure tasting note/flavour comparison that I’ve been trying to explain to other tea drinkers really get highlighted in such a direct way. Like, I kind of want to take the rest of the teabags of it and bring it to the office to make all my coworkers drink just so I can be like “This! This is what I taste every time!”

It gets an automatic yes for “would you recommend this tea” for that alone.