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Happy spring! I miss Japan and I have a cherry tree blooming in my backyard, so I went with a cherry sample today.

It’s a little more bitter than I was expecting, and I’m finding that it has kind of a treeish flavor to it, which is really interesting. It’s not treeish the same way an oolong is; it’s just got a nice sweet cherry scent, a tart cherry flavor, and…tree. It’s almost like this is cherry blossom flavored rather than cherry flavored.

I like it, but I’m not missing Japan any less now.

Not a whole lot to say about this. Very lightly sweet, first half of the sip is smooth and last half is astringent, very slightly bitter. I think I’m just spoiled for greens after Omaesama. It’s good, though.

Does anyone use this website anymore? I feel like it’s just me shouting about tea into the ether.

Silonibari is surprisingly tasty. I have to admit that I’m not awesome at telling Indian black teas apart unless they’re flavored, and I sort of expected this to taste slightly sharp and slightly like raisins like every other unflavored Indian black tea, but it’s actually really good. It’s very smooth, lightly astringent, and a little bit sweet, and it’s got a sweet and fruity smell that I like a lot.

This is probably one of my favorite estate teas from Book of Tea. It caught me completely off guard because I wasn’t expecting to enjoy an Indian estate tea this much. Yum, to sum up.

Wow, this is a really interesting sencha! I don’t really get the same “nori” taste from Omaesama that I do from a lot of other senchas, but I think it’s really interesting. It might actually become my favorite of the senchas I’ve had from Lupicia, not counting Uji, because Uji is my wife.

It has kind of a thick mouthfeel, and it’s roasted, but kind of lightly sweet, almost. There’s a little bit of a grassy lingering aftertaste, too. Also, Omaesama is probably one of the least astringent senchas I’ve ever had, which I wasn’t expecting given how thick it is—I think it’s thicker than Kirara, honestly, and Kirara had matcha in it. This is honestly one of the neater senchas I’ve tried.

Slightly astringent, and it kind of has the full mouthfeel of straight-up matcha. Like a really light genmai with matcha thrown in. This is the first time I’ve had matcha that wasn’t in a latte for a while, and I’ve missed it. c: It’s probably not my favorite of the genmai that I’ve had, but it was nice, and today was a good day for genmai anyway.

Light Chinese black tea. I completely forgot how much I love Chinese black tea, and I need to get more of it. Well, maybe not this particular one; it’s tasty, but it’s not very exciting.

Earthy, smoky, astringent, but lighter than I expected.

So, I was a little bit of a moron. I got this mixed up with Tokyo from Harney & Sons. I thought that was what I would be drinking. I literally read the blurb on the bag that said “Popular green tea that’s completely easy to drink and has a faint fragrance of sweet berries” and went “Oh, they must have put the wrong description on the bag”. Whoops.

Anyway, I do like it. It’s sweet and light, and it has a nice, really fresh berry scent and taste. It almost reminds me a little bit of that goji tea from Teavana. Or maybe currants? I’m not really sure. It’s really cute. I think I’ll probably order more of it come spring.

i’m tired and i don’t have the brainpower right now to review this properly but it does in fact taste like honey and it’s great

This is exactly what I needed today. It smells like bittersweet chocolate and the dark cocoa taste really jumps out. It’s not terribly complex, kind of like Framboise (ooh, blending idea), but I needed a chocolate tea today and this delivered.