52Teas Send Message

I cold-brewed the very last bit of this tea that I have for my “Tea with spinach/artichoke notes” for the Steepster Scavenger Hunt. When I blended this, I went with an amazing Japanese Tamaryokucha tea for the base which has a strong vegetal note that reminded me vaguely of seaweed. Although, generally speaking, I don’t care for seaweed, I did enjoy the vegetal notes of this tea that is somewhere between broccoli, asparagus and cooked spinach & I thought that it would work well as a “Mermaid”/Oceanic type of base for a tea. (On a side note, after I blended this tea, I found some cool little mermaid tail sprinkles that would have been cool in this blend, so maybe someday I will need to do something else mermaid-y so I can get those sprinkles. Or maybe I’ll just make cupcakes for my daughter.)

Anyway, I was a little worried that maybe this tea wouldn’t hold up because it IS almost 3 years old now & coconut. But, I was hopeful that maybe, because the package was still sealed, that maybe, just maybe it’d be OK. And it is. I get a strong vegetal taste from it, but I still get a soft creaminess from the coconut, notes of pineapple, a touch of blueberry and a kiss of lime. Actually, it’s more like a combination of these flavors rather – like a medley – than one specific flavor that is particularly strong. The strongest flavor here is the green tea – I don’t know if that’s because I cold-brewed it or that the flavors have softened because of age. That’s not meant to be a slight on the tea because I am enjoying it & this turns out to be a really good choice for the tea with spinach/artichoke notes. Also – it is a tea – so I don’t really dislike it when I can taste the tea.