Japanese Cherry

The dry tea is very fragrantly cherry-scented but it’s more of a cherry-candy scent than the smell of the actual fruit. Someone else said that the taste reminded them of cherry cough-syrup and while I don’t think the taste is that bad it is more than a little fake-tasting. The resteep was better, with more of the grassy taste of the sencha coming through and the cherry flavour was mellower.

I can never figure out how I feel about this tea. It’s pretty good if I’m in the mood for it, but there’s something unsettling that I can’t quite place. Maybe it’s just that it’s really, really sweet.

Very good. Tastes like cherries (not fake flavoring, but real cherries) without overwhelming the sencha. Like it. A lot.