This is Lupicia at their very best. In the bag, a natural, sweet, ripe strawberry meets a rich and creamy vanilla. Lupicia usually go for a very subtle vanilla flavour, but in this case, either they’ve kicked it up a notch, or the strawberry gives it more punch, as the vanilla is highly present both in the nose and in the cup.
But what gives this tea that extra something, is the manner in which these two main flavours come together – to each sip, there’s a beautiful roundness I can’t really get enough of. This is one of my absolute favourite flavoured greens and the first one I hoarded when I accidentally (yes, REALLY!) stumbled over a Lupicia in Kyoto while out for a perfectly innocent evening stroll.
[Purchased at Lupicia in Honolulu, December 2012.]
Boiling, 1 min 30