Pomegranate? Umm, not really.
I love pomegranates. I used to buy them by the bagfull from the farmer’s market during undergrad. They’re sweet and tart and soo juicy.
This though to me is cranberries. Not even fresh cranberries, more like the sweet dried cranberries. The little ornamental fruits even look like crasins! That I couldn’t get out of my mind, so the aroma was all cranberries to me and I couldn’t think of pomegranates when drinking it.
Most of the fruit is aroma though, and the other sensory is all straight green tea. The taste and mouthfeel was green and didn’t leave me with any fruitiness at all. This normally would have been fine, but I had brewed in a gravity steepster and transferred to an thermos. So sometimes I couldn’t even catch the aroma as it cooled and all I got was green tea. Which isn’t bad, but not exactly how I would have wanted it.
Second steep was just green tea with a hint of cranberry aroma. Not nearly as much aroma as the first cup, Persimmon tree doesn’t flavor their teas as much as I’m used to, and I’m not sure yet if that’s something I like. It kind of takes the fun out of multiple steepings.
I got this as part of their green tea gift set.
