I picked up a sampler of Tea Forte green teas that included Honey Yuzu green tea. Yuzu is an Asian citrus fruit. In addition to yuzu flavor, the tea also incorporates grapefruit and orange flavors.
It's a complex and fascinating tea. It starts with the slight sweetness of honey and then finishes with a distinct citrus flavor, all of it overlaid with a smokey quality. It's refreshing and palette-cleansing. However, it's definitely not a tea for everyone. That smokey quality is going to turn off a number of people, and there's a certain grapefruit-like bitterness in the aftertaste. But I rather like it, at least in small doses.
I'm going to try it with some buckwheat honey as sweetener to see what flavor notes that brings out.
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