I can buy Cherry Bancha and Cherry Sencha at our annual Cherry Blossom
festival. The scent is so strong I buy Cherry Bancha so change
mediocre too cheap. Next year I'll try the blossoms off my own trees
if there is no early freeze like the last two years. The teas I buy
have no blossoms and I've always suspected an industrial adulteration.
It's too sweet.

Jim

crymad > wrote in message >...
> Space Cowboy wrote:
> >
> >Japanese Cherry Blossom is usually matched with mediocre bancha.
>
> Where, Starbucks? There is a beverage called Sakura-yu, but this is
> salt-preserved cherry blossoms steeped in hot water, drunk usually at
> auspicious occasions like weddings. But bancha with cherry blossoms is
> pure imagination. You're just trying to get under my skin, aren't you,
> Jim.
>
> --crymad