A couple trips back I got this black currant flavoured bottled Starbucks drink from T&T that was imported from Asia, and I thought it was pretty good. This time around I saw the same product line/style of bottle but peach oolong flavoured – so I figured I had to try it.
It was very, very good. Lightly sweet and pretty mellow and refreshing with distinct notes of floral green oolong that came through alongside the dewy, fresh fruits. It’s interesting that it’s meant to be peach though because the entire time I was drinking this I just felt like it really tasted a lot of fresh pear juice. A little creamy, definitely floral leaning and just really smooth. I kept trying to taste the peach but it was like a constant autocorrect in my brain where it registered as pureed pears.
I then thought that maybe the drink did actually contain pear since pear juice is a fairly common “filler juice” in a lot of drinks (along with apple/white grape), but nope. No pear in the ingredients list at all! It was weird, but hard to be mad at it when the drink itself was so delicious.