Kruška Jabuka Šljiva (Pear Apple Plum)

TTB tea! Now this is a nice fruit tea! It tastes fresh and appley. I’m really enjoying this cold! It’s like drinking apple juice!

2023 sipdown no. 108

This smells like apple cider! Making (and enjoying) apple cider is a big thing at home (perhaps also along the east cost of the US?), so the scent of this really reminds me of home ❤. Even now that we’re in western Canada, we pick the apples from Lexa’s family’s yard and make apple cider.

Onto the tea! There is an incredible natural sweetness here that is also reminiscent of cider. There is of course the apple and I would say the pear is also quite nice here (though falls more into the background compared to the apple). There are whispers of tartness that make me think of plums as well. This tea is really quite lovely and I wouldn’t mind having this one around — especially given how easy it is in teabag form. Thank you Martin for invoking memories of home when you shared this tea!

It has finally cooled off this evening! To celebrate, I’m having Pear Apple Plum gifted by Martin.

It smells exactly like red apples/apple juice foremost, mixed with the strongest pear aroma I’ve encountered in a tea and a deep jammy-tart berry/blueberry/vaguely plummy/hibiscus base. It tastes mostly of tart-verging-sour hibiscus.

A thought. IMO, tartness is a bright something experienced on the tongue, short-lived. Sourness is a sharper, more gripping feel that pinches somewhere in the back of the mouth/lower jaw/salivary glands.

Normally with flavored teas, it drives me nuts that I can’t taste the flavor, only smell it. Here, I can find some of it hiding in the hibiscus before it pops out again as I swallow.

This was a pleasant tea I’d recommend to people with a love of strong orchard fruit notes. For me this was a too cloyingly apple and in general intense with that jammy-tart profile but very well done, especially the pear flavoring!

All three fruits I know well. We have them as fruit trees on our garden. And slowly, they start to bloom in these days. It seems that spring finally reached us as well.

I don’t know exactly, why I have chose this in my CGFoods order, maybe it was cheap, maybe I just wanted new wrappers to my tea bag wrapper collection… maybe I was actually interested in flavour.

Anyway, taste wise it is a very good blend. It is full of pears, the soft, buttery ones and tasted genuine and quite complex. Add red apples… and their sweetness. They aren’t much present in other ways. The last… plums. Sadly, I haven’t noticed them much this time. Maybe a little in aftertaste. Maybe they need a little shorter steeping than I did. Because last time they were a little bit more prominent. Maybe all tea bags aren’t same.

But in conclusion? I am super happy with this tea and its flavours. They are kind of real, genuine and most importantly, they do not taste artificial. And it is not tart and no heart-burn. And it is not oversweet too.