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Peach Matcha from Red Leaf Tea

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Peach Matcha

Matcha Tea by Red Leaf Tea

Peach Matcha is a delicious fruity drink that has vibrant color and delectable aroma. This sweet unforgettable drink can be an excellent accompaniment in any social occasion where people need to sample nature’s delectable bounty. The tangy taste of peach matcha makes it a favorite for any hot afternoon when people are out swimming and need to relax with a unique blend of herbal drink that stands in its own class.

Since peach is well known for its sumptuous taste and delicious flavor, it lends this unique attribute to create the great tasting peach matcha drink. Together with matcha’s special Eastern taste, peach matcha becomes the preferred drink for people who want to get together over a drink that appeals to all people present. With it sweet taste, peach matcha is a favorite among children.

When it comes to uplifting spirits with a memorable drink, peach matcha makes a good choice because of its tangy taste. It is excellent for that fruity taste that many people value in any herbal drink. It is also the perfect hot beverage on any cold day where people want to remember the fruity benefits of hot summer months and dispel the cold winter blues.

10 Tasting Notes

aisling of tea
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aisling of tea

Millions of peaches…peaches for me! Millions of peaches….peaches for free! Yay! Flashback to the nineties, y’all. This time I’ve tried the Peach Matcha from Red leaf Tea (found here: http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/peach-matcha.html), and yum…it takes a bit of fiddling, but once you get it right, it is delicious. A welcome addition to any collection! And keep in mind that I’m still new to matcha and trying to figure it all out.

As any good Southern girl would, I have a deep love in my heart for peaches. Deep, deep love. That fruity sweetness…is there anything better? There are few things in this life better than a fresh, juicy peach. A close second is ice cold peach tea. Peach cobbler, peach pie…summer is a good time to be in the South!

I opened my package of this matcha and, my wife will back me up on this, my first words were “Whoa, momma!” It smells so good. Like juicy peach candy….nom. It smells painfully delicious.

The taste certainly follows up on that scent! It tastes like a big, juicy peach lollipop. It’s not a fresh peach, but it’s a peach candy. It reminds me of the peach soda I used to get in high school at the local Food Lion to take to our weekly slumber party with my best friend. So I’m grateful for those memories. Makes me want to pop a big bag of popcorn and dip it in nacho cheese. Oh yes, we were super healthy.

Anyway, this matcha has the same bitter kick as the lemon matcha, but a touch of sugar chased that away. I think that’s just a matcha thing. It’s definitely one I want to try again and see how it goes. Maybe cut it with a touch of the vanilla…peaches and cream! Yes please! This would be good in my smoothies this summer, maybe a peach raspberry smoothie dream…nom.

I made a second cup with different parameters (12 ounces of water instead of 8 to one half teaspoon of matcha, as well as a bit more sugar) and it is heavenly. Juicy enough to satisfy this Southern gal! Finishing off my sample of this will be no great hardship, I assure you. It tastes like a fuzzy navel without the alcoholic bite! Or those peach gummy candies…yum!

I let some of this chill and GAH. Cold, this is beyond amazing. This is what I needed, cold and fruity and peachy! It’s not too sweet, it’s not too bitter, it’s just a beautifully refreshing cold drink for summer…I have a feeling this will be a staple in my cupboard this summer.

2012-04-04 19:28:02 -0400
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Azzrian
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Azzrian

MATCHA 1 of the TeaEqualsBliss Matcha Marathon!

A HUGE THANK YOU to Amanda for this sample! I am preparing for my first Red Leaf order – you would think I was preparing for prom lol. I want to do this right!
I agree with Amanda about the chemical flavor of this tea HOWEVER I made mine iced with milk and it sure helps a ton to cut down on that chemical taste. Hot, this is nasty!
With that said I am enjoying this iced matcha latte!
A little german rock sugar, a little milk, ice, and the peach matcha is goodness!
I would be upset if I were Amanda though and liked my matcha warm. I can’t handle warm matcha though so make lattes with all my samples.
There is still a slight chemical after taste here but the peach flavor is good. I hope that Red Leaf manages to fix this because their matchas are too expense not to be perfect in my opinion especially when you get the upper end matcha base like Amanda did!
Again thank you Amanda for sharing this with me!
:)

2012-08-09 14:09:38 -0400
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momo
momo 3 tasting notes

This does not taste good. I wanted an iced latte, but I wanted to take a sip while it was hot. PURE CHEMICAL TASTE.
Dumped it. Tried again, going all the way through for the latte this time…it’s still there, although now it’s relegated to a strong aftertaste that still makes it hard to drink. My tongue hurts from it.
I guess that might be the last time I pick “distinctive” flavoring. I’m going to brush my teeth now.

And the worst part is I got the royal matcha for it and it’s entirely ruined by this horrific aftertaste.

I REALLY hope there is just something wrong with this, I’m gonna email them now.

2012-04-30 21:26:28 -0400
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I blended up half a peach and added it to some of this. I think the temperature was too high again, so I think I’ll just stick with using room temp water on this stuff. It has a bit of a bitter aftertaste. But on the plus side, it frothed up so amazingly well. I usually can’t get it whisked up fast enough to get a lot of bubbles but this time I did and it was beautiful.

Before the aftertaste though it is so sweet and peachy, I still feel like I “wasted” one of my peaches though because they are the most beautiful and delicious ones I have ever had. Their flesh color is so intense, they almost look like mangos inside. Their flavor does come through so not all is lost and I guess it’s less messy than me eating it.

The addition of cream actually cuts down on the bitterness a lot, and thankfully tames the sweetness a bit too because it was getting to be too much for me! Now this is reeeeeally good.

I’m getting their watermelon one next…you don’t even need to guess that I’ll be replicating this but with watermelon! Seriously the more I drink it, the more heavenly it tastes.

2012-06-19 20:08:55 -0400
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First off, thank you Red Leaf Tea for sending me a replacement for this matcha. It is much appreciated.

On the sad side, I don’t think this flavor is for me. It might have to do with the previous taste ingrained in my mind now, but I still get it. However it’s much better this time around. The soapy taste just comes through at the end but it doesn’t feel like it’s burning my tongue off like the first time. And before that happens, it does actually taste peachy!

Actually, as I drink more it starts to go away. I’ll work with this a bit more but it’s now much better. I’m thinking of making a peach syrup and adding it for a sweetener, since this does need it at least for me.

2012-06-13 18:16:27 -0400
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LiberTEAS
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LiberTEAS 3 tasting notes

Oh dear… this one isn’t good. I’m sad, because I had wanted to try the Peach and Watermelon Matcha together as a combination, but, I do not want to try this in anything. This is very chemical tasting, just like the apricot. It is just not good. Horrible is more like it.

I’m sad … I really wanted to like the peach because I love peaches. But I don’t taste peaches. I taste icky chemical-y taste. Not good, not good at all.

2012-10-11 20:54:04 -0400
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I made a smoothie for dinner. Yogurt, frozen fruit, bananas, and some pineapple juice, and a heaping teaspoon of peach Matcha. This is the perfect way to disguise the overly chemical taste of the Peach Matcha.

2012-11-09 21:27:19 -0500
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OK… I dumped out my first chawan of this (as you’ll notice from my first tasting note, it was not suitable to consume), and after reading through some of the other notes on here for this tea, I thought I’d go with Azzrian’s idea and turn this in to a latte. I used warmed milk instead of hot water and prepared it with my hand held latte frother, and it turned out quite good.

It isn’t a strong peachy flavor, but, there is a peachy flavor there. The milk does mute some of the peachy tones, but more importantly the milk also manages to mute out the chemical-y taste that I was experiencing and found really distasteful. Not all of the chemical taste is gone, I can still taste ever-so-faint notes of it, but it doesn’t disrupt my enjoyment of the peach and matcha flavors … and fortunately, the peach and matcha flavors are stronger than the chemical-y taste which was not the case with the first bowl.

Now I taste sweet peaches along with sweet, vegetative Matcha all in a very creamy latte. It is tasty, although, I’m afraid I can’t go all gushy over this tea because of the fact that it had to be served as a latte to get a good flavor from it. I would really rather be able to enjoy this served traditionally. But, the chemical icky taste prevents me from doing so.

My order specifications for this Matcha were the classic grade of Matcha with the distinctive level of flavoring. The fact that there is a strong chemical taste to this one isn’t going to taint my overall experience with Red Leaf Tea – because for the most part, I’ve really enjoyed all the Matcha that I’ve received from them. There have been a few unfortunate experiences – particularly with this Matcha and with the Apricot – but, the others that I’ve tried, I’ve enjoyed.

If you’re interested in a Peach Matcha Latte, you can purchase your own Peach Matcha here: http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/peach-matcha.html

2012-10-11 21:09:28 -0400
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TeaEqualsBliss
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TeaEqualsBliss

Special Thanks to Amanda for this one.

This tastes like strong bitter leaf greens with peach and a bit of chemical taste that Amanda spoke of. I did get past the chemical flavor because of the dark leafy green type taste I got. The peach is subtle compared to Red Leaf’s other matcha offerings.

This one is not really my fave but sure glad I got to try it.
:)

2012-08-10 11:51:25 -0400
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Starfevre
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Starfevre

So thanks momo for sending this. I don’t quite know what I did to this matcha, but it’s quite possibly the most bitter thing I’ve ever drunk in my life. Even sweetened it’s got such a bite to it. I don’t think I’ll be able to finish the cup.

So this is two matchas I’ve disliked to one I’ve liked. Green tea matchas anyway, I still haven’t tried my black matcha that’s waiting for me at home. I don’t quite know what happened between the baggie it was in and my mouth (I only added 185F water and some warmish milk and stirred) but I really can’t stand this.

2013-02-26 17:23:03 -0500
185 °F / 85 °C
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