Ito En – Tea Pear Review
Ito En, as a Japanese beverage company, is one of the leading manufacturers of tea, although this beverage is manufactured in China, brought in through Hawaii, and distributed through their North America office in New York. Quite a journey for a small bottle of tea. the FDA says it’s cool, so I’ll give this one a chance to prove it’s tea goodness, China is known for their tea.
I popped open their supposed environmentally-responsible bottle and gave it the old scent test. I get the overwhelming image of a fresh cut pear wrapped in tea leaves, sweet and aromatic. Good so far. A swig later, and my tongue is reveling in the delightful pear-y taste, giving way to a surprisingly strong tea flavor for a white tea; and with surprising sweetness for only 30 g of the sweet stuff in the whole 16 oz bottle. The finish is a little dry with a lingering sweet-pear flavor.
Fruit teas are hard to nail down properly, often the fruit overwhelms the tea, or is left far too understated to avoid this cover-up. This tea has struck a good balance, a good pear flavor with a nice strong tea to follow, although the sweetness is beginning to feel like a little too much, they might want to take a cue from Honest Tea and tone it down a bit. Ito En surely knows how to make a good fruit tea, although too sweet, it still has its merits.
Score: 4.5 out of 5. Excellent balance for a fruit tea, just a tad too sweet.
– WiseGuise
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