Momoko

I’ve never super been into peaches or peach tea (my only other experience w/ anything
like it is Bigelow’s peach-flavored green tea, which I did not like), but this seemed interesting. Very nice creamy/vanilla base and just slightly sweet from the rock sugar. The peachiness was prominent more in aroma than flavor, which I liked/think is as advertised.

It was a gift from a friend that I forgot in my cupboard, so the tea bags were already past date (August 2020), but since I hadn’t opened the bag before, the aroma and flavor seemed preserved enough? I wonder if it would have been an entirely different cup if I’d managed to get to it before then.

I might have used too much water since I was using a large mug.

I swear I’ve grown up with this tea when I lived in Hawaii. I got a free sample of it, and it’s very similar to the Oolong version, but that one is a little bit more tropical and stonefruit in vibes, whereas this one is arguably peachier with the vanilla addition. It’s very smooth and sweet. I slightly prefer the oolong, but the flavoring of this peach is creamier with the vanilla.

Sipdown. Coldbrewed this with lots of honey, and it was tasty. I reduced my rating by a bit because, while it was still good, it wasn’t as extraordinary as I remember.

OMG. Everyone is still here?!? More or less… Tea and I took a break for a bit. Pretty much all I drank was DAVID’s tea, and not often. I had switched to coffee and then just did that for a couple of years. Come back from work, have coffee. After dinner, coffee.
But recently a friend was visiting from the states and had an opportunity to place a Lucia and a Harney order. Since it’s been years, I wasn’t too sure what to order so I just rolled the dice.
Momoko made the cut.

I heated water for delicate instead of green (because yesterday’s Napa was bitter when steeped in “green tea” setting on the kettle) and it’s still bitter-ish. and floral.

bummer.

PS. Glad to see y’all are still here.

A Berry Frui-tea July! Another tea I picked up on the cheap just because it was close to a best-by date from Lupicia’s mottainai sale. It was in a tin, and sealed in a foil bag inside that, and looked and smelled very fresh, so I really have no worries here and I’m pretty happy about getting a good deal on it. It smelled so much like sweet, succulent peaches when I opened the bag, too!

This is a really nice tea; it has a very natural tasting peach taste, that actually makes me think of fuzzy, juicy, peaches. There is a nice sweetness to the tea as well, a very subtle vanilla cream flavor. There is just a touch of a sweet floral aftertaste, as well. This made a very nice warm, relaxing evening cup, but I am definitely going to make a cold brew batch of this on the morrow; I think the sweet peach flavor will make a lovely iced brew.

This is a lovely smooth, peachy green tea with a nice hint of sweet vanilla in the aftertaste. I found it to be delicious hot and even better iced.

I’m new to the tea world so I won’t give it a rating. I suppose this is more for my reference. The smell of the tea at the store is what enticed me to buy it. Peachy and green, with a hint of vanilla. After adding hot water, the smell turned cloyingly sweet and vanilly, which makes me tired of smelling it. It’s getting a little better as it cools so perhaps I will try cold brewing it next time.

I just never know what to expect when it comes to green teas. It seems that I really dislike most that I try, and love just a small few. I need to figure out which green tea base it is that doesn’t agree with me.
Unfortunately, this is one of those that I seem to not like. I think I get a bit of creamy vanilla right at the beginning of the sip, and then it’s overpowered by something vegetabley and almost fishy. It’s all I can taste, and I don’t get any peach flavor at all! :( This tea has great reviews, so I doubt it’s anything with the tea itself, just my own weirdness with green teas.

This is a nice flavored tea with strong notes of peach and vanilla. It does not have that vegetal taste so often associated with green teas.

Brewed this once in an 18oz teapot with 3 tsp leaf and 175 degree water for 2 min.

Sipdown (105)!

Good Morning Steepster! Back at Calendar Club for the week, so time to catch up on tasting notes from the weekend…

Kicking it off with this cold brew! Sample came from Cameron B. but I have a hunch that it was originally from Dexter. I don’t know why I wanted to try this one; I’m not big on green tea and fickle with peach. Maybe it’s just because it’s Lupicia and they’re not a super available company – so sort of a “try what you can when you can” kind of mind set?

Have to admit I was really not into this tea. It’s was so incredibly vegetal and kind of seaweedy, and then had this really intense bitter aftertaste that kind of made me gag. And then the peach was weirdly strong and contrasting next to the bitter seaweed. All in all it reminded me of a sorta “worse” take on Della Terra’s A Rabbit’s Garden? I mean, I sorta liked A Rabbit’s Garden but it had negative traits – this was those negative traits on steroids.

But I wont rate and lower the overall rating for this one because I knew it wasn’t my thing to begin with and my bias shouldn’t affect the overall rating. Though it was kinda worse than I was expecting, and my expectations were relatively low…