Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Culinary Teas
Tea Description:
Like being carried on trade winds, notes of mango create an exotic fruit pungency. Pineapple cubes added highlight to the mango character and mallow petals accent a clean finish.
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Taster’s Review:
Looking for a great tea to serve iced for these long, hot, summer days ahead? Look no further – Culinary Teas has got just what you’re looking for!
This Blue Mango Green Tea, while quite tasty served hot, is spectacular when served chilled. The light, crisp flavor of the Sencha green tea paired with the sweet, juicy mango flavor and hint of pineapple essence is so refreshing!
The green tea is sweet and offers but a whisper of grassy taste to the cup, a grassy tone that nearly disappears when the tea is cooled, leaving a taste that is fresh and somewhat creamy. The mango doesn’t overwhelm here, while it is the strongest flavor of the cup, I am able to easily find the flavor of the green tea and even the barely-there hint of pineapple that accents the mango notes so deliciously.
The tea finishes with a tangy astringency – not strong, but it’s there – and the aftertaste is distinctly mango, although I don’t find it to be a heavy mango, nectar-like note. More like a hint of mango, just to remind your taste buds of the goodness in your teacup.
This tea requires no sweetening when it’s hot, but I do think that the iced version really benefits from a bit of sweetener. I chose to sweeten my 8-ounce glass of tea with a little less than half a teaspoon of coconut sugar, which is made from the sap of the coconut flower bud. When tasted straight out of the package, I can taste hints of coconut to the coconut sugar, but, when I add it to a tea like this, the coconut is not noticeable at all, but the sugar does really enhance the flavor of the tea very nicely.
A really delicious tropical tea for summertime.
