Cold Brew…
Ooohh boooyyy I have a lot of feelings about this tea. As some of you know, Sencha is notoriously one of my all time least favourite kinds of tea. So, when I was at the Toronto Tea Festival and saw Momo’s booth I was very tempted to just totally skip over it. All they were sampling was their sencha line and I just was so confident that I wouldn’t like it. However, that felt so strongly against the spirit of what the festival is supposed to be so I tried a couple samples and they were damn good. So good, in fact, that I bought a bag of two out of the three teas I sampled – including this one, which is apple flavoured.
Knowing how refreshing a good green tea can be when cold brewed, that how I decided to take this tea for a spin with my first at home tasting. I’ve been sipping on it throughout the whole day today and I think I’ve said under my breath “Damn, that’s good!” immediately after having a sip about five or six times now. I don’t know who I’m talking to; I guess my hamster!? It’s just so refreshing and nostalgic that I can’t help but vocalize it.
I think the best way to describe the taste is somewhere between a really good glass of apple juice and the more distinct and sweet taste of a Japanese apple candy. I say Japanese very specifically too, as they use a different flavouring than what’s commercially used here in North America – it’s harder to call it specifically red or green apple because it rides the line of sweet and tart so well, while also having a floral characteristic to it that isn’t prevalent in North American candy. So I guess the TLDR of that is that it’s simultaneously very natural and more candy like, and also not overly sweet or tart – with some floral elements.
The green tea base is also just so crisp and clean finishing – a little grassy and a bit umami but not the kind of ocean bomb or awful lawn clipping notes that I negatively associate with Sencha. It’s medium bodied and just a perfect back drop to the apple notes. On a sweltering hot summer day this would be a killer drink.
