Where there is a Japanese community you'll find a Sakura festival.
The teas I buy are from Japanese merchants but I've always wondered
why no blossom and I feel the taste is syrupy sweet. I just bought
some from my local tea shoppe and the same taste. If the tea is
suppose to taste like cherry cordials then it is too much for me. It
is almost like a perfume. You can find my geographical location using
Google usenet and my moniker. I don't mention it here because I don't
want someone showing up at my door asking me what I think of some tea
they bought from a website.

Jim

crymad > wrote in message >...
> Space Cowboy wrote:
> >
> > I can buy Cherry Bancha and Cherry Sencha at our annual Cherry Blossom
> > festival.
>
> This is in American, I gather. Whereabouts?
>
> > 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.
>
> So it's not just Japanese tea adulterated with actual cherry blossoms,
> but rather tea with sprayed-on artificial flavoring? In the manner of
> those horrid coffee beans made to taste like orange amaretto
> cheesecake? This is sick, man.
>
> --crymad