Bar Harbor Pomegranate Green Tea Review
The inviting aroma of the pomegranate’s sweetness is the first indication that this is not a typical green tea and a confirmation quickly follows that first sip. The flavor of this Bar Harbor blend has a layered complexity to it, beginning with a foundation of traditional Sencha green tea astringency that slowly reveals shades of the fruit’s tart, succulent taste. The dried seed casings from the pomegranate’s core, known as arils, are what contribute to this distinct fruitiness. The pomegranate flavor augments rather than overpowers, allowing the trademark freshness of green tea to pleasantly arise on your palate.
This brand of Sencha green, like most teas, traces its origin back to Asia where it is Japan’s most popular variety. Fittingly, the word Sencha is loosely translated to mean “common” in Japanese. Due to overwhelming worldwide demand, however, this type of green tea is also harvested in regions of China, where the dried leaves in this Bar Harbor blend once resided.
Sencha, by definition, is a loose leaf tea and its thin cylindrical shape is created from a process that involves lightly steaming the leaves and rolling them into the proper form. This method avoids grinding the leaves and, by letting them remain whole, imparts the tea with a flavor wholly reliant on the quality of leaves. The optimum harvest time for evergreen tea plants is in the spring months of March and April which yields leaves that retain a full, vegetable-like flavor while diminishing the notes of bitterness.
Such a description is also suitable for the Bar Harbor pomegranate green blend as it eases the nearly caustic taste that many novice tea drinkers feel upon trying their first cup of green tea. The intricacy, as well as overall sweetness, is heightened considerably with the addition of dried pomegranate seeds, extending the 4000 year lineage of classic Sencha green tea into an intriguing present.
Related Articles
