It's a Tea World After All

Picked up a single serving (teabag) of this one, since it sounded fun and whimsical but I couldn’t remember how I felt about their green tea. I feel like I am less tolerant of lower grade green teas than other types, maybe because it’s usually Chinese sencha and I’m so used to the real deal? Sometimes they’re fine, it just depends on the company.

Smells delightfully cotton candy dry! And I’m enjoying the steeped mug as well. The base isn’t the greatest, but it’s not offensive, just very grassy in a drying way with some haylike notes. The cotton candy is perfectly balanced, I can taste that airy, fluffy, cloudlike candy sweetness, but it doesn’t taste cloying. The raspberry is nice as well, sort of a freeze-dried raspberry note without the tang. The cotton candy lingers nicely in the finish.

I’m not sure if I would repurchase it, just because the seaweedy/marine notes of the green tea do clash a tiny bit with those sweet flavors. I think if the flavoring were a touch stronger, it would be less noticeable. But I really enjoyed trying it, and so nice to see a cotton candy tea that doesn’t have sprinkles or sugar in it, and actually tastes as promised!

I don’t know if I necessarily felt like there was a lot of “wow factor” to this blend but it did make for a very solid mug and I think both of the inspiration flavours were pretty apparent, though the raspberry a little more so. Medium bodied overall and the raspberry felt fairly natural though without any tartness/acidity to it. Quite mellow without being delicate/weak. There was an overall sort of airy sweetness that felt pretty cotton candy-like. Not too sugary/cloying in any way but almost like an icing sugar sort of powdery softness that just sort smoothed everything out.