Sakura Thé Blanc

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
Flavor, White Tea
Flavors
Candy, Cherry, Cucumber, Floral, Flowers, Fruity, Grapes, Grass, Honey, Muscatel, Creamy, Hay, Oats, Sakura, Smooth, Sweet, Medicinal, Powdered Sugar
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Low
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 13 oz / 398 ml

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  • “I pretty much adore this tea but I think that it is kind of odd that I do. It smells so sweet! Like little-ball-of-marzipan-candy sweet. And the taste! It’s a light, sweet, floral and slightly...” Read full tasting note
    90
  • “I picked this up on a whim when I was in the grocery store the other day. I won’t lie, it was because I thought the box was pretty [but it also helped that I’d had a good experience with Mariage...” Read full tasting note
    86
  • “Another tea from the lovely Takgoti. The scent of this tea reminds me of cherries, but not the fresh, juicy sort; it’s more of a candied smell. It brings to mind those sugared blossoms that are...” Read full tasting note
    75
  • “THIS IS DELICIOUS (but lacked in steeping instructions). Sweet like sugared flowers, or more like flowers made of sugar. Conversely, the smell reminds me of cherry losanges and I was bummed with...” Read full tasting note
    96

From Mariage Frères

MARIAGE FRÈRES associates in SAKURA WHITE TEA the refined floral notes of tender white tea buds with the fruity saveur of Japanese cherry blossom; the result is magnificent and gourmand.

The canister, decorated with a splendid fuchsia and silver flower, welcomes this precious tea with a promise of a radiant future.

PREPARATION TIPS :
5 g / 20 cl – 85°C – 5 min

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911 tasting notes

I pretty much adore this tea but I think that it is kind of odd that I do. It smells so sweet! Like little-ball-of-marzipan-candy sweet. And the taste! It’s a light, sweet, floral and slightly earthy tea with faint notes of wood or nuts and then a lovely sweet floral poof at the end and then a chaser of marzipan that can in no way be natural but I still luf it muchly. Just thinking of this tea gives me the urge to sprinkle glitter and candied flowers over everything and dance around a garden in a white gauzy dress.

(The second steep (also at 3min) is my favorite. The marzipan and flowers thing doesn’t change (if anything it may be a little sweeter), it just smoothes out a little compared to steep number one. I still need the glitter, candied flowers, garden and dress to really set the mood.)
2.5g/5oz

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec
~lauren.

Maybe some cherry blossoms in the hair, too? :)

Auggy

Cherry blossoms and glitter EVERYWHERE! Whee!!! :D

LENA

LOL…I can see it now. :)

~lauren.

Don’t ask me why, I just had a flashback to Wizard of Oz’s Glinda the good witch! The mind works in mysterious ways…! :) But having fun.

SoccerMom

Lauren, I was totally thinking of the good queen from Alice in Wonderland!

~lauren.

There you go, then! I wasn’t too far off with my imagery after reading this lovely post!

~lauren.

Though of course, nothing would top a photo (on Flickr steepster group maybe) with Auggy dancing and twirling dressed up in a gauzy dress with flowers galore and glitter sparkling everywhere … hint hint hint, Auggy!

Auggy

Hah! Well, if I had gauzy dress, glitter and flowers, I might do something like that but I lack all of these things so everyone is out of luck! :P

SoccerMom

Hahaha okay Auggy we will let you off the hook for NOW, but for Halloween we want the photo Lauren described posted on Flicker. In other words you already know what you are going to be for Halloween! ;)

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260 tasting notes

I picked this up on a whim when I was in the grocery store the other day. I won’t lie, it was because I thought the box was pretty [but it also helped that I’d had a good experience with Mariage Frères previously].

The dry leaves have a strong scent, reminiscent of the great Marco Polo experience of 2009 [ah, 2009] except instead of smelling like Strawberries on Steroids [coming atcha in 2011] it smells like Cherry Blossoms on PCP. So, delicious.

The scent actually reminds me of a few things. Grenadine, for one. Also, some types of gum. Extra, maybe, or Bubblicious. But most of all, Mr. Bubble bubble bath, which my parents would not let me or my brother have anymore after one of us dumped half a container in the bathtub. [I still maintain that it was him.]

Taste wise, this tea is light, like sugared flowers. That kind of light. It’s sweet, and that stays with me in the aftertaste and pulses in intensity as I breathe in and out.

It actually reminds me of Ludens cough drops, which, as anyone who has them may be aware, can be most accurately called candy. They do not taste like cough drops. I am 98% sure they are just candy and have little to no medicinal value. They taste a hell of a lot better than regular cough drops do as a result [if you like candy, that is] and I would beg my dad to bring some home when I was sick. [He often did, on the condition that I actually ate one real cough drop for every three Ludens or something like that.] Anyhow, this tea reminds me of that, just with the volume turned down a bit.

If I were to sum up this tea in one word, it would be sparkling. It seems to shimmer with sweetness, and has this almost nectar-like quality to it.

Mariage Frères didn’t offer any insight for steeping, so I put it in for three minutes, drank about a third of the cup, stuck it in for two more, and then drank the rest. The three minute mark had more flavor, so next time I’ll try a full cup there and probably continue to play around with some more steep times and stuff. I know that I’m tired because in that previous sentence, I wrote “but so and,” so…I’m going to stop here.

Oh, except to say that this note is based on the 3 minute steeping because I liked the flavor better there.

Okay, but so and good nighting!

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Angrboda

I’ve been known to do that too, buy something because the box was pretty. If the contents of the not so pretty box sound more interesting than the contents of the pretty box it can turn into quite a dilemma. I go by the most interesting label too when choosing wine. :)

fcmonroe

It is a beautiful tin. How come my grocery store doesn’t carry teas in pretty tins? They don’t have any loose teas at all.

Carolyn

@Angrboda I also buy the pretties.

Auggy

Looks and sounds very pretty! The thought of sugared flowers makes me happy.

teaplz

I secretly used to love getting a cold so I could eat those Ludens. I’d go through an entire bag at a time. I also used to really like the Celestial Seasonings cough drops, but they discontinued those. The berry ones were really good!

Anyway, glad this one tastes as nice as the tin looks!

JacquelineM

Wow! I want to shop at that grocery store! The tea sounds really unique and delicious.

takgoti

@everyone I’d like to say that I read through all of the descriptions and then make an at least semi-informed decision, but what happens is I start reading everything and then I forget what’s what and I get both bored and overwhelmed at the same time and so I just go “YER PURTY” and grab it if it sounds decent. Plus, Mariage Frères and some of these other people don’t name some of their teas super descriptively. I mean, “Fall in Love”?

I should also mention that I went out to Balducci’s, which is hardly my daily grocer. I don’t roll deep like that. It’s a smaller, frou-frou grocery store that I go to sometimes when I’m in need of something that’s harder to find for cooking purposes. Now I’m going to be going there for tea purposes too, it seems, since they carry a lot of good looking stuff!

@teaplz They’re so good! I don’t know if they still make them this way, but they used to have them in these little boxes with this wax paper bag inside. Something about that felt old to me, so I used to pretend that my stuffed animals were sick too and that it was their medicine when we were “out on the trail.” Except then I’d try to ford the river and our wagon would tip over and somebody would die of dysentery.

sophistre

But you always have to ford the river, because choosing any of the other options is for chumps.

Also, you always killed way more than you could carry back to your wagon. It’s not your fault you’d see nothing but rabbits for ages and then BAM, bison. I mean what can you do? Really?

takgoti

I know! Stupid bison.

I also seem to recall a spinoff of OT called Amazon Trail that was essentially exactly the same but with a graphics upgrade. [And also it was set in the Amazon.] I think there might have been some extra mini-games. If I’m remembering correctly, I also got it out of a Cheerios box. I think you got to spear fish in that one instead of shooting stuff.

teaplz

I always caulked the wagon and floated it. And sometimes it’d be too heavy because I was PARANOID AT THE GENERAL STORE and bought like, 5,000 of everything. And then the wagon would sink. PITIFUL.

There was Yukon Trail as well!

Jillian

OMG Amazon Trail! When I was in elementary school my class would play it sort of as a problem-solving lesson. I seem to recall a magical black jaguar that sent you on a quest to get things for the Inca King in the Lost City or something. And I remember that we had to take picture of animals and ID them. It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in a computer class.

And I crashed the boat. A lot. XD

takgoti

@teaplz I was going to say that I don’t think I ever played Yukon Trail, but then I wiki’d it and I remember it vaguely. I think that ten-year-old me somehow knew that there were talking jaguars on the way and thus lost interest too quickly to play much of it. That, or it might have been right around the time when I became obsessed with Duck Hunt…

@Jillian Holy crap. I remember the jaguar now. HAHAHA. And the picture taking. It was like the predecessor to Pokémon Snap. [Did anyone else see the new HAWP? Oh, man. So disturbing. And hilarious.]

@notarevolution Do it! Watch out for them squirrels!

Angrboda

You lot are inspiring. I had to pay a visit to abandonia.com last night because of you. :)

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Another tea from the lovely Takgoti.

The scent of this tea reminds me of cherries, but not the fresh, juicy sort; it’s more of a candied smell. It brings to mind those sugared blossoms that are sometimes used to decorate cakes.

Taste-wise mostly what I’m getting is the white tea (which is quite nice, BTW) with a hint of something floral and sweet at the end of each sip.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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80 tasting notes

THIS IS DELICIOUS (but lacked in steeping instructions).
Sweet like sugared flowers, or more like flowers made of sugar.

Conversely, the smell reminds me of cherry losanges and I was bummed with the quantity in the tin. But don’t let this put you off from a solid Bai Mu Dan with an addicting flavor.

This is unlike other sakura teas I’ve tasted. In fact, I don’t know what I’m tasting, but it is pleasant. The texture is thick, the taste is fruity. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Me gusta.

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what a beautiful taste. its like perfume for the mouth. it has a great smooth, floral, aromatic taste that is to be savored.

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French Friday! This sampler was kindly provided by Cameron, thank you Cameron! I had a French sakura tea from Palais de Thes yesterday, so I thought it would be interesting to compare them. (Also, this is my S entry for Ode to Tea! I only need to finish up the sipdown on my K tea and then sipdown a B tea and I’ll be done with the 26 sipdowns!)

Prepared 2.3g for 350ml of 185F water, steeped for three minutes. The aroma of this is almost a dead ringer for the Fleur de Geisha tea I had yesterday, except the aromatics seem to be a bit more on the floral/sweet site than the fruity cherry side (I definitely smell both flowers and cherry, though). The aroma also reminds me a little of grape candy, somehow…

Huh. The tea tastes just like grape candy, too! Not sure why I’m getting that strong grapey/muscatel note, but I don’t taste cherry (just grape) because of it. There is a hint of a cherry-esque note toward the very end of my sip, but during the sip, it’s all a sweet and syrupy grape. I wonder if they used any jasmine flavor for the floral? Jasmine can often taste like grapes to me. The white base is coming through too, as I’m getting a bit of a cucumber water, wildflower honey, and fresh grass. Very pleasant, I’m often extremely let down with flavored whites because they always seem to use such LQ white tea for the base which is very distracting. This is one I could easily drink without the flavorings.

Of the two, Fleur de Geisha definitely reminds me the most of sakura, but that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying this cup. I’m just enjoying it as a very floral and muscatel white!

Flavors: Candy, Cherry, Cucumber, Floral, Flowers, Fruity, Grapes, Grass, Honey, Muscatel

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 g 12 OZ / 350 ML

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1359 tasting notes

This is another awesome share from Cameron!

This smells exactly like a red Life Saver (are these even a thing anymore?), and tastes like one too. Thanks Cameron!

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 5 min, 0 sec 3 g 14 OZ / 414 ML
Cameron B.

Lifesavers are totally still a thing!

derk

Yup, they’re in the work vending machine.

Dustin

Have you ever seen the Life Savers flavors they have in other countries? In Australia I saw musk and thirst!

Courtney

Hahah what would those even taste like Dustin?

Dustin

Musk tastes very perfumey. I really liked that one. Thirst were a variety of flavors in a roll that were fizzy like very mild pop rocks.

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4123 tasting notes

Hmm…

I’m just not a fan of this. The base tea is fine, but the flavoring is just too… something. It’s very candylike cherry, almost medicinal like a lozenge. It has a powdery sweet floral quality as well.

This tea is a few years old, so normally I would potentially toss the remainder. But the flavor still seems potent, and being a Mariage Frères tea, which are a bit of a pain to get here in the US, I think I’ll keep it around in my swap box where hopefully it can eventually make its way to someone who will enjoy it more.

Flavors: Candy, Cherry, Floral, Medicinal, Powdered Sugar, Sweet

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Courtney

Oh dear, this one sounds intense. I have started a swap pile, but I can’t decide if I should compost things instead with not being super comfortable to go into the post. Sigh.

Cameron B.

Since the majority of my teas are a few years old, I generally don’t keep them around for swap/TTB just because I don’t feel right sending people old teas. But yeah, the likelihood is this won’t be swapped anytime soon with the current circumstances…

Courtney

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too — as I wait around for things to calm down, the teas just get older and I feel bad to send them out! :(

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