I first discovered Ooya at a tradeshow a year or two back, and they were one of my favourite companies that I’d come across. So, I was very excited to see they’d released some new flavours since I had last sampled there teas!
Peach and kiwi as a combination feels so fresh to me. I’m so used to the very played out combination of peach and mango or strawberry and kiwi. Those are, of course, delicious but there are some fruit flavours that are sooooo played out in the RTD space that they just read as overly commercial to the point of being safe/boring. I don’t know if I’ve seen a peach kiwi RTD before – it just feels like a brilliant way to take two staple flavours and give them just enough of a twist to be different while not being novel and unfamiliar.
The drink was very good, though it’s certainly much more peach forward than kiwi. I’d expected as much, though, given that Ooya has used this soft peachy orange colour across all of the branding of the product – it sort of subtley implies that this is first and foremost a peach drink. It tastes natural and fresh though like the tender end-of-Summer peaches that melt in your mouth when you eat them. The kiwi adds a little top note brightness and a bit of a tropical acidity that elevates without distracting. Best way I can think to describe it is that the kiwi is a backup dancer for the Peach. This is not a duo.
I still need to find the new Apple Lychee – I’ll be keeping an eye out!