Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
Pear’s sweetness and freshness are harmonized with full-bodied Sencha flavor. Den’s Pear Iced Green Tea is the most popular flavored iced green tea among our development team.
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Taster’s Review:
I love pears, but it is one of those “less common” kind of fruits, especially when it comes to fruit flavored teas. It’s become pretty easy to find strawberry or peach flavored teas, for example … but I don’t come across as many pear flavored teas. And I think I know why: it’s not an easy flavor to capture with tea. The flavor of the fruit tends to be a delicate one anyway, so to flavor tea with pear essence is not an easy feat. More often than not, the resulting pear flavored tea ends up tasting like artificial pear or not like pear at all. I’ve only tasted maybe a handful of pear flavored teas that ended up tasting true to the fruit.
Well, add this one to that handful! Because this does taste true to the fruit while still managing to maintain the presence of the green tea. In fact, the green tea is the strongest flavor of this tea, and it is sweet and tastes lushly green – very vibrant and yet calm … just like the color itself.
But the pear is also strong – deliciously strong – without tasting fake. No odd flavors here, nothing tastes off. It tastes like deliciously smooth, vegetative Japanese Sencha and sweet, juicy pear.
Oh… and did I mention just how refreshing it is? It’s been so hot lately, it’s finally cooling down, but it is still rather warm. But gulping this tea helps keep me cool and hydrated! So good that you won’t even think about how good it is for you. But it is … so you don’t have to worry about that, either!
Peach Iced Green tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
The fruitful Peach flavor plays second string to the Sencha flavor. With the first sip you sense a sweet and sour taste then the taste of a premium Sencha comes though.
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Taster’s Review:
I’m really loving the tea I’m producing using the cold-brewing method, and since I finished the last of the Southern Boy Teas a few days ago, I decided that I needed something else that was easy to cold-brew. At about that same time, I saw that Den’s Tea had these great cold-brew green iced teas so I decided to try a few of them. This is the first of four that I’ll be trying over the next couple of weeks.
I let this brew overnight (this is one of the things I love best about cold-brewing tea, I just let it do it’s thing overnight, then in the morning, I have iced tea, already good and chilled and ready to drink), and even after a good 12 hours of brewing, it did not become bitter.
The sencha is vegetative and stands out as the strongest flavor. The touch of Matcha enhances the vegetative tones and gives the tea a nicely smooth flavor. The tea offers a savory tone that contrasts with the sweet, juicy flavor of the peach.
This is so well-rounded: sweet, a little sour, and savory. It has a very satisfying, refreshing flavor that doesn’t need sweetener – which is a big plus in my book. And while it is sweet, it doesn’t come off as cloying. It doesn’t taste too vegetative. It has a really pleasing complexity.
This is not your average glass of iced tea!
Pomegranate Green Tea from Peter Asher Coffee & Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Peter Asher Coffee & Tea
Tea Description:
The pomegranates magenta color certainly makes them pop and one look at their vibrant skin probably has you expecting a provocative punch of flavor. Well, you won’t be disappointed here. This cup of tea is the perfect package for drinkers who want a pleasing potion in a small package. One cup is enough to win over the pickiest of the picky and keep the coming back for more. So if you’re looking for a palatable pekoe chock-full of natural goodness look no further.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I really love the fragrance of the dry leaf. The combination of the rose petal, Japanese Sencha and pomegranate flavor create a very delicious scent that is fruity and sweet, with lovely floral tones in the background.
The brewed tea takes on a stronger “green tea” aroma, smelling a bit like freshly steamed vegetables. There are still hints of pomegranate in there too, as well as a whisper of rose.
As for the taste: it is wonderful! The green tea is the most prominent flavor, and that’s a good thing. It tastes light, sweet, and slightly creamy with hints of buttery notes. There is a vegetative tone to the overall cup, but I like that it does not overwhelm it.
The pomegranate is tart and sweet. It tastes true to the fruit, although it is a little different because of the strong green tea notes. But, I like this, because pomegranate flavoring in tea can sometimes be too tart, but, because of the sweetness from the green tea, I find that the tartness is softened. It is still a little bit tart, but it isn’t too tart. The rose is not a strong flavor, but hints of the rose can be detected.
A really wonderful pomegranate tea, and it’s delicious hot or iced.
Apple Sencha from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
The combination of dried apple bits and apple flavor make Apple Sencha is a great option to apple cider on a cold evening. It offers the pleasure of sweet-sour apple with Sencha flavor. Also great for iced tea.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I was really excited to try this flavored Sencha. Back when I was still flavoring and blending teas, I had a green apple flavored green tea, and I’ve been hoping to find one that I like as well as I did that one. I’m keeping my fingers crossed here!
Mmm! This is good! It is different than my blend, but then, I kind of expected it to be, because this is a Japanese Sencha and my blend was made using a blend of Chinese green teas. But the apple flavoring is very good – almost cider like, but without the spices. I like that the apple flavor is very true to the fruit – it is a little bit sweet, and a little bit sour, and there is such a crispness to the cup as well … just like biting into a fresh, crunchy apple!
This tea has a very autumnal feel to it – then again, apples always make me think of “back to school” and the month of September… fall. But, at the same time, it tastes light and crisp – almost spring-like too! A lovely tea that can be enjoyed any time of year!
This is one that deserves a place in my cupboard. I like it a lot!
Organic Matcha Infused Sencha from Aiya
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Aiya
Tea Description:
Matcha Infused Sencha is a blend of traditional Japanese Sencha tea leaves and premium Matcha green tea, giving you the best of both worlds. The fresh brisk flavor of Sencha is enhanced with the health-giving properties of premium Matcha green tea.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
Every so often, I encounter a tea that seems to have a very rejuvenating effect on me – one that seems to invigorate me from the inside out. This is one such tea.
It has a lovely flavor – hints of a sweet creaminess from the Matcha, and a very vibrant, fresh leafy kind of flavor from the Sencha. It has a pleasant vegetative tone to it – it doesn’t taste overly grassy or anything – just hints of sweet, grassy tones as well as notes of freshly steamed vegetables. Imagine those two notes melding together into one unified flavor – you’d have what I’m tasting now. Not quite grassy … then again … not quite vegetable. Somewhere happily in between.
But even more gratifying than the flavor here, is the way it is making me feel. Having just recovered from a light bout of flu-like symptoms (a 24 hour thing that seemed to do more to wear me down than anything) I really needed something to reawaken me from the inside. Something to recharge me, so to speak. And I can feel this tea doing just that. I can feel it start to rebuild the torn-down, run-down, achy muscle sort of feeling that I have been enduring over the past 2 days following my 24-hour-flu-like-thing.
I’m liking this more and more – not just for the way it tastes, but for the way it is helping me to feel. This tea gets two enthusiastic thumbs up!