Sakura Mint Herbal Tea from Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

Sakura Mint Herbal Tea

Tea type
Herbal Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Cherry, Cherry Blossom, Dried Fruit, Fruity, Mint, Roasted, Sakura, Savory, Sweet, Floral, Herbaceous, Smooth, Spearmint, Toasty, Woody, Autumn Leaf Pile, Fresh
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Caffeine
Caffeine Free
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 15 sec 5 g 14 oz / 414 ml

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  • “Sipdown! (25 | 372) 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...” Read full tasting note
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From Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

This herbal tea is made from Wazuka’s wild cherry tree leaves, roasted blossoms and wild mint.

It has a very gentle, Spring like, flowery flavour and a refreshing mouthfeel. The fantastic aroma of the roasted blossoms makes this herbal tea very soothing and relaxing. It doesn’t contain any tea and as such, this product is 100% caffeine free and can be enjoyed hot or cold.

Taste: Sweet
Body: Medium
Texture: Rounded
Length: Long
Harvest: May
Ingredients: Yae-zakura flowers and leaves, Wild mint
Origin: Wazuka
Cultivation: Wild Grown
Processing: Drying/Roasting

About Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms View company

It started with a single cup of tea. As the legend goes, our president Akihiro Kita, or Akky-san, visited Wazuka, Kyoto one fateful day. At the time, Akky-san was still a college student in search for life's calling. After trying the region's famous Ujicha (literally meaning tea from the Uji district), he immediately fell in love and his passion for green tea was born. He had finally found what he was looking for in that one simple cup of tea. After fifteen years of learning to master the art of growing tea from tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms was born and as they say, the rest is history. So what's an Obubu? Obubu is the Kyoto slang for tea. Here in the international department we call ourselves Obubu Tea. That's "Tea Tea" for the bilinguals. We love tea so much, we just had to have it twice in our name. Now Obubu means more than just tea to us. It means, family, friends, passion and the place we call home. More than just tea. Though the roots of Obubu stem from tea, it has become more than that over the years. Obubu is an agricultural social venture, operating with three (1) bring quality Japanese tea to the world (2) contribute to the local and global community through tea (3) revitalize interest in tea and agriculture through education.

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Sipdown! (25 | 372)

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

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
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Mastress Alita
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Were they still salt-preserved? I wonder if roasting is an alternative preservation method…

Cameron B.
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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.

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