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“I’m pretty sure this is the only Lao flavour that, until now, I hadn’t tried. I’ve always skipped it over because I find the blue colour kind of gimmicky. The taste really surprised me, but not...” Read full tasting note
TEA
Organic matcha Yume – from a spring harvest on Japan’s southernmost main island, Kyushu
TASTING NOTES
This smooth Japanese matcha is in and of itself a caress for the taste buds. A convivial kombucha by its fruity and refreshing vegetable nature, it pleasantly affirms itself with delicious flavors of strawberry and rhubarb pie. Absolutely exquisite…
INGREDIENTS
Filtered water, Symbiotically fermented kombucha (bacterial and yeast cultures), Cane sugar, Matcha tea*, Blue spirulina, Carbon dioxide.
*organic
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I’m pretty sure this is the only Lao flavour that, until now, I hadn’t tried. I’ve always skipped it over because I find the blue colour kind of gimmicky.
The taste really surprised me, but not necessarily in a good way? It doesn’t taste like matcha in the slightest which is a disappointment. Reading the bottle it’s supposed to have notes of strawberry and rhubarb pie and I can see – the strawberry in particular. However instead of a fresh juicy strawberry note with natural sweetness or even a more tart strawberry I found this had that somewhat unpleasant taste of a slightly sour and over ripe strawberry. The kind you bite into that’s a little too soft and mushy and maybe even starting to ferment, but not really rotten yet.
Also, near the end of the bottle, I started getting this weird creamy finish that mixed with the kombucha vinegar taste was giving a sour yogurt note – and not in a fun way.
I don’t know – I just felt like this was a weaker and weirdly funky (even for kombucha) offering from Lao. That said, I bet it’s still a best seller for them. People are really, really weird about blue drinks. Like, they just get SO excited even if the taste is kinda just meh.
