Matcha seems to be getting really popular these days as I see it starting to be sold by many tea sellers. I love flavored matchas – I own a bunch of different flavors with a couple different tea sellers. I don’t often prepare matchas in the traditional whisk/chasen, despite owning the tools. I think bubble/boba tea and Starbucks Green Tea lattes taste so good to me, that I prefer to make matcha as a milk shake blended with ice and milk. With that said, I love a good flavored matchas, it’s a delicious treat.
3 Leaf Tea is a new tea seller on the block, selling matchas, hot chocolate, raw cacao in unflavored and flavored varieties. Let’s sample Peach Matcha and Coconut Matcha.
Enclosed with my matcha was directions. It is important with matcha to use a low temperature as it is a delicate tea that is prone to turning bitter when made incorrectly. For tools, I used a milk frother I got from IKEA, as I like my matcha quick and easy.
Tasting of 3 Leaf Tea’s Peach Matcha
The color of Peach Matcha is a vibrant green grass color.
The scent is light, but when introduced to hot water the matcha smells super peachy. When I mixed in with milk I made a huge mess with matcha over flow. Tea owl clean up crew!
The peach flavor is a delicate white peach taste and mostly present in the after taste which lingers after each sip. The matcha base is nice hint of grass and freshness. I made my matcha latte with soy milk and it has a peaches and cream kind of vibe. The instructions have you add 1 teaspoon of sugar, which turns out very well to enjoy the peach flavor and latte, without being super sweet. Of course, you can add more if you got a super sweet tooth.
Tasting of 3 Leaf Tea’s Coconut Matcha
The matcha smells really coconutty, yum! I sampled this matcha a few days after the Peach Matcha and it seems I still cannot be trusted with matcha, as I got matcha powder all over the counter and me.
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Coconut matcha has a creamy slick and thick coconut flavor that is very creamy, making for a tasty latte if you love creamy flavor. The coconut flavoring is also light enough to enjoy the matcha green flavor.
Comments
3 Leaf Tea’s matcha is the perfect matcha to get your feet wet into matcha territory. The flavored ones I had were light, true to their flavor, yet also let you enjoy the matcha taste. Right now they have 14 different flavors to choose from. Out of the two I tried, the coconut one was my favorite for creamy overload, though I am also biased to coconut.
A big perk to 3 Leaf Tea is that they SELL SAMPLE SIZES! OMG, yes! This is actually the first time I’ve seen a tea seller that sells matcha in sample size. When I started buying matcha a few years ago, it was a risky big start up cost as many sellers don’t have sizes under 30 grams (at around $15 to $30 a tin) and if you disliked the flavor you were out of luck.
Bonus:
As I stated earlier, 3 Leaf Tea also sells flavored hot chocolate mixees and they offered to send me a few samples as well – who could not say no to chocolate! I sampled the Butterscotch one and it is really REALLY good.
I buy hot chocolate flavored packs at Costco and I like 3 Leaf Tea’s better. The chocolate tastes legit like melted dark chocolate, not powdery over sugared kind. The sweetness is well done, just enough to enjoy the flavor and not swimming in sugar like the other hot chocolate mixes. The chocolate mix blended together really good with little sediment on the bottom. I totally recommend trying 3 Leaf Tea’s hot chocolate if you drink hot chocolate mixes.
(tea and hot chocolate provided for review)
