Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Praise Tea
Tea Description:
Organic and Fair Trade China Green tea infused with the taste of ripe pears. A smooth, full-bodied yet highly aromatic and healthy blend that’s delicious.
Origin: China
Ingredients: Chun Mee Green Tea, Pear
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I tend to find myself a bit skeptical when it comes to pear flavored teas, especially pear flavored green teas. That’s because back in my tea flavoring/blending days, I created what I felt was the very best pear flavored green tea, and I still have yet to find one that is as good.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m not enjoying this pear flavored green tea. Quite the opposite, actually. It’s really tasty!
The Chun Mee base is an interesting choice but it works surprisingly well with the delicate flavor of the pear. I say surprising because its been my experience that Chun Mee (also known as “Precious Eyebrow”) tends to have a strong “green tea” flavor – that is to say it tends to be a bit on the grassy side. With this stronger flavor, could the delicate sweetness of the pear shine through?
The answer is yes. I can taste the sweet, delicious flavor of pear, as well as the full-flavored Chun Mee. The Chun Mee is sweet, grassy with hints of seaweed. There are lovely hints of plum in there too, and these are very complementary to the notes of pear. The Chun Mee is more assertive than the pear flavor here, but, it doesn’t overwhelm it entirely.
A delicious pear flavored green with a very enticing composition of flavors.
Special Piña Colada Green Tea from 52Teas
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: 52Teas
Product Description:
If you thought our award-winning Pina Colada Honeybush was good, wait till you get to try THIS!
We blended some of the finest green teas we had–some chun mee, young hyson supreme and a smaller portion of Japanese sencha for balance with real dried pineapple, our honking big coconut flakes and all natural flavors. This is going to blow you away. I was thinking really hard about not offering two green teas in a row, but this is so amazing I couldn’t resist.
Taster’s Review:
I must agree: this tea IS amazing!
Having tasted their Piña Colada Honeybush and loving it, I knew I was in for a treat with this blend. And even though I really do love the Piña Colada Honeybush, I think that this is even better. The sweet, tropical flavors meld so seamlessly with the sweetness of the green tea blend.
The dry leaf is really beautiful with its green tea leaves, large chunks of dried pineapple and HUGE flakes of coconut. And it smells as good as it looks!
But the taste is what really wins you over with this tea. Sweet, juicy fruit flavor with a touch of rum. The green tea is light and refreshing with a soft mouthfeel. There is next to NO grassy taste with this green tea, I don’t know if that is because of the strong piña colada flavoring offsetting the grassy notes, but for those who often find the vegetative taste of green tea to be off-putting, I think that this green tea would work for you!
Unfortunately, as I write this the tea has sold out. I do hope that this is one that 52Teas considers reblending because I think that there are a lot of people out there who are sad about missing this one – or at least, they should be! It’s SO GOOD!
Since this one IS sold out, though, I intend on reserving the rest of this package away for iced tea brewing! As awesome as it is hot, it’s even better iced!