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Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (November) – “A weird tea”
Okay, so this doesn’t sound weird from the name. When it showed up on Obubu’s website last year, it sounded like something I would love, so I ordered two bags of it. It’s a combination of sakura blossoms, sakura leaves, and mint.
However… What I didn’t realize or expect is that the sakura blossoms in this blend are actually roasted. I don’t know if this is a thing in Japan and I’ve just never heard of it, or if Obubu just decided to try something different.
In any case, I wasn’t sure what I thought about this tisane. It almost tasted a bit… plasticky? chemical? at first. Or at least the combination of flavors came off that way to me for some reason. But I found as I kept trying it, it grew on me. It’s an interesting mix of gentle roastiness with that savory-fruity-floral sakura note and a little bit of mint. Surprisingly the mint isn’t very strong, the roasted sakura definitely takes center stage.
Anyway, I enjoyed this by the end, which is good because I have another bag to sip through eventually. :)
Flavors: Cherry, Cherry Blossom, Dried Fruit, Fruity, Mint, Roasted, Sakura, Savory, Sweet
Were they still salt-preserved? I wonder if roasting is an alternative preservation method…
I don’t think so, they didn’t have that salty taste and the blossoms in Obubu’s Sakura Sencha are just dried, not salted.