Dec 17
Review: American Tea Room Immortal Green
American Tea Room, Fruit Flavored Tea, Green Tea, Passion Fruit Tea, Peach Tea, Sencha Tea Add commentsJamie’s Teaview Snapshot
 | "The color of this tea is remarkable. Glowing viridescent but with an entirely bright yellow tinge; drink it on a cloudy day and you can't help but feel that spring is just around the corner."
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Lovers of fruit flavored green teas may well be interested in this offering from American Tea Room. American Tea Room describes this tea as follows: "Japanese Sencha blended with peach, the Taoist symbol of immortality, and passionfruit." The sencha is indeed exceptionally fruity in aroma, smelling nearly of candy in the dry leaf.Using two teaspoons of leaf for a 12 ounce infuser pot, I heated the water to 175 and steeped for two minutes. The fine leaves swell and float to the surface with flecks of pale marigold. A super candy-esque scenting of the dried leaf respectfully backs up as the water is poured and the tea steeps. The leaves glow a bright jade.
The color of this tea when brewed is remarkable. Drink it on a cloudy day and you can't help but feel like spring is just around the corner. Glowing viridescent but with an entirely bright yellow tinge, the fruit smell is quite forward but curiously doesn't come across as the first or only taste on sipping. The bright, clean vegetal taste, quite buttery, is fresh and enjoyable. A lingering peach taste remains along the tongue. On further sips, especially taste rich slurpy sips, one tastes the fruit flavoring permeating the entire tea, which works pretty well with the buttery qualities of the sencha. The sencha is first and foremost vegetal and buttery but also offers a combined "bitter/sour/sweet" quality working pretty well together in a shared role.
Those who enjoy fruit blends or flavored greens will probably enjoy this quite well. Being a little picky about fruit flavored blends myself, the hedge I had with this blend was that on the first infusion, the peach taste lingered a little much and left me with a sense of oiliness on the tongue that I didn't care for. This aspect was not so prominent in further steeps. While the peach flavor permeated nicely, it was well behaved and didn't overstay its welcome.
The second and third steeps were the ones I enjoyed the most, with the peachiness backing off and melding pleasantly and the lightly bitter/sour/sweet qualities sorting their business out and allowing sweetness to take center stage in backing up the creaminess of the tea. Coloring remains superb on all steeps, even into the fourth.
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