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My sister bought a little of this and told me she liked it so I should try it. I smelled it and thought it smelled like dried apricots? When brewed it did taste really good, not sure if it’s what most people would be expecting as I taste the black tea with a hint of sweet cherry syrup. I had thought it’d be like the sakura flower tea i had from Lupicia before but its not. It is still good, perhaps I will “help” her finish the package :)

It did remind me of cherry blossoms in the Spring. A nice brew to drink and drink again…I add some sugar (but only one cube or TS).

I am trying this tea for the first time.
The loose leaf tea contains small sugar crystals, which makes it nice to look at. The scent is noticeably cherry without being overpowering. When brewed, the tea has a light flavor, but not dull like some other decaffeinated teas can be. The flavor profile is there, but on the delicate side. A bit of milk in the tea is nice as well.

Definitely a fun tea to try, but I won’t be putting it on my permanent rotation. Lovely sweet smelling tea, but the taste was too one-track for me (for context, I usually drink Taiwanese Oolongs or Japanese greens).

IMO, great for impressing the occasional guest, but has too much of an overpowering sweetness to be my daily drinker. (but maybe yours!)

Back note from before I left town, but also… I see Steepster has been down for three days. sigh.

From Cameron B!  Thanks again!  Sometimes I like the idea of tasting a black tea at night, and that is when decaf is helpful.  But really I think it is just the light base here for showcasing a super strong cherry flavor.  This cherry is not particularly medicinal OR the candy type… so I like it.  It’s almost like if black cherries were treated like maraschino cherries.   It’s Lupicia cherry, I guess!  As their flavors are usually on point.  So when I’m craving cherry, I will go for this one.  I’m glad I like it!   … Didn’t notice I should have been tasting peach until I read the description… this is full cherry to me.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons for a mug // 20 minutes after boiling // 1 – 1 1/2 minute steep
Steep #2 //  just boiled // 3-4 min

November Sipdown Prompt – National Stress Awareness Day

Yesterday and today have both been extremely stressful. I need more than one minute of being aware of my breath to get through this.

I think I will finish this and go to bed and hope tomorrow is better.

As for the tea – this is sweet cherry rather than tart, like Luden’s cough drops or a very particular lollipop I used to buy near Valentine’s Day but could never remember the brand and often ended up with a more lackluster type.

Picked this one up in the spring and just now getting around to trying it. I wasn’t planning on ordering any sakura teas, since I still have some Sakura & Berry and Sakura Houji from the previous year. But I hadn’t tried this one in ages (and apparently never wrote a note when I did), so I thought I would refresh my memory.

Anyway, to the point. This is a decaffeinated black tea with cherry and peach flavors. Unfortunately, I am not a fan… The cherry is quite medicinal, and tastes just like a cheap cherry lollipop. There’s perhaps a hint of peach, but the cherry definitely dominates the flavor.

Oh well, glad to have tried it again! Now to put it in my “send to someone else” box ha ha. :D

I have a caffeine-sensitive husband, and as I age, I am noticing sometimes (just sometimes!) I, too, seem to have a bit of trouble falling asleep if I’ve had a black tea after dinner. Getting a decaf tea would not have even been a consideration years before, but here we are. This is a nice, fruity, cherry tea, perfect on its own and definitely one I enjoy post-dinner as a relaxing drink. The cherry notes on this harken back to Lupicia’s Sakurambo tea a little bit, but this one is definitely fruitier, with more sweet cherry notes to it rather than the almost herbal hit of Sakurambo.

Sipdown 1

Trying to sip down as much as possible, because I brought back quite a tea haul from my trip.
This was fine, I can’t remember much about it. Slightly fruity, slightly tart.

First tea for March Mad(Hatter)ness! The teas were randomly selected using random.org from my spreadsheet, amongst my 2018 teas (so they will be “equal” in age). To get more variety, I am doing each initial round as teas of the same type. This is for the black tea round, going against Bird & Blend’s Peach Cobbler.

Thankfully this tea is decaf (perhaps the only black decaf tea in my whole collection?!) so I can actually drink it after my “caffeine cut-off” hour. From 2018, back when Lupicia was in California and I made a big “buy all the sakura teas” order. I feel like I don’t even see the sakura teas pop up in the spring since Lupicia moved to Hawaii? Prepared 2.5g steeped for 3 minutes in 350ml 205F water.

Unlike the other sakura teas, this one is just flavorings, no salt-preserved leaves. Has an extremely sweet cherry aroma on the nose; it is leaning a little more “cherry” than “cherry blossom” for me, aside from the sweetness which gives the aroma a slight florality to it. At least it doesn’t smell medicinal. And… thankfully, it doesn’t taste medicinal either! It is lacking a certain “tartness” I’d expect of cherry fruit, which, in the flavor, is reminding me heavily of sakura. A soft cherry with a sort of sweet wild flower honey sweetness. The base tea is giving me a bit of a dry leaf note, with a hint of baked bread, and there is a mellow astringency toward the end of the sip. Also a slight “metallic” quality that I could do without, which I often taste in decaf teas. The aftertaste is a bit drying, after the candied cherry note wears off the tongue.

It’s a very nice cup; rarely do I find cherry flavors I enjoy. I may try this with either a smidge of honey or as a latte sometime, to see if that curbs the slight astringency/dryness and metallic notes.