“CACHE-CACHE” means “hide-and-seek” in French. I’m horrible at French so I’m grateful that I could find more about this on the Lupicia Site. Cache Cache from Lupicia is a tea where various flavors are hidden and found. Ingredients include Black tea, Sugar, Orange flower, Pink pepper, Artificial color, Gum arabic, Flavors.
I remember back in 2014 – having tea envy – because LiberTeas sampled and reviewed this one back then. I’m excited it was available once again this past holiday season and I was able to get my hands on it, too!
There seemed to be so many different flavor layers to this tea. I was able to pick up on buttery notes – but also creamy and smooth, too. Just when I thought it was vanilla – the sugar flavor popped in to play. There were subtle spice notes throughout the sip as well. I couldn’t really put my finger (or tongue) on exactly what the spice was that I was tasting. Was it clove? Cardamom? Pink Pepper? What ever it was – it was necessary for the overall flavor profile.
This one is special. I wish it was available all year round. I’m thinking it would be a hit – and NOT just around the holidays!
Here’s the scoop!
Leaf Type: Black Tea
Where to Buy: Lupicia Tea
Description
CACHE-CACHE means “hide-and-seek” in French. There are a few delicious scents hidden in this cute tea, can you name them all? Available only in our online store and Hawaii store
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Cache-Cache Black Tea from Lupicia
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Lupicia Tea
Tea Description:
“CACHE-CACHE” means “hide-and-seek” in French. This is a tea where various flavors are hidden and found.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
This is a most unusual tea, this Cache-Cache Black Tea from Lupicia! I’ve tried it a few times, and it’s a tea that every time I taste it, I taste something a little different, so it certainly does present a challenge when it comes to writing a review for it.
The best way I can think of to describe what I’m tasting is to say that it is a tasty black tea with some very unique profiles within its layers of flavor. The black tea base is pleasant and smooth. It’s a medium-to-full bodied tea that seems to “fill in the gaps” in the background to provide a delicious black tea “canvas” for the unique flavors “hiding” within this tea to present themselves.
Fruity is the first word that comes to mind after I take a sip of this tea. What fruit? That’s where the challenge comes in. I taste notes that are similar to mango and melon. It’s a bit like a melange of fruit flavors that have all been blended into one cup – sort of like a fruit smoothie. There’s a sort of creamy type of flavor to this as well, but not so much a creamy “vanilla” type of flavor or even a creamy “milky” or “buttery” flavor, instead, it’s more like the creaminess you would taste from that banana in the aforementioned smoothie.
Previous tastings of this tea offered notes of spice. Gentle notes of spice, mind you, not something strong like you’d probably experience from a chai blend where the spices dominate the cup, but, more like a subtle hint of pepper with and a soft warmth like you might experience from cardamom or clove.
This is really an enjoyable tea – and I like that it offers you a different experience every time you taste it. I don’t know that this would necessarily be the tea for purists, but, for someone who is really looking for a tea time adventure, this would be a fun tea to try.
