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This tea has a base of Genmaicha, a Japanese green tea blended with toasted rice which has a subtle biscuity flavour.
But T2 have no time for notions of subtlety. “Sure,” they presumably think to themselves. “You could go for a delicate blend of flavours, but why do that when you can go batshit crazy flavour explosion instead?”
There is everything in this tea: hazelnuts, almonds, cocoa husks, carob, blackberry leaves, chicory root… oh, and sugar. Also ‘natural and artificial flavourings’ because as I discovered in my reviews of their Baxter’s Bakery tea range, T2 are not averse to a bit of Mr Kipling’s Cakes-esque artificial flavour.
And you know what? It works. I feel like I have consumed – in tea form – a whole shelf of a supermarket biscuit aisle. I am apparently on board with T2’s “More is More” philosophy.
Admittedly, this isn’t what you’d expect from a tea called Jade Mountain, which understatedly describes itself as “flavoured green tea”. Its name evokes the cool, fresh tranquillity of the Japanese mountains, yet the taste is a sugar coated Rocky Road in Candyland.
Which is fine because, you know, sometimes you want to take a fresh invigorating walk in the mountain air, and other times you want to faceplant into a hot fudge sundae. This is a tea for those letter occasions.
Today’s featured book is Three Japanese Short Stories by Akutagawa and others. Because, I hadn’t yet tasted this tea when I took the photos and I was still channelling a ‘Peaceful Japanese Tea’ vibe.
