Black tea carries sweeter fruit flavours better than green teas, which are more suited to the sharper more citrusy flavours, like yuzu and grapefruit. This holds true for Lupicia Kiwi Black Tea, a kiwifruit flavoured black tea.

The tea is a looseleaf black tea with kiwifruit flavoured sugar crystals.

Steeping 3 g of loose leaf in 200 mL of water at 95°C for 3 minutes, the tea was a clear red-brown colour an intensely sweet aroma suggestive of an overripe kiwifruit, Served hot, sweet notes of golden kiwifruit came through refreshingly smooth at the head of each sip ahead of a developing astringency and gentle bitterness in the body that recalled the puckering sensation from biting into the fuzzy skin of green kiwifruits. The kiwifruit notes return sweet and fresh in the finish and linger pleasantly in the aftertaste.

This Lupicia Kiwi Black Tea is a vast improvement on the Eikokuya Tea Kiwifruit Black Tea.

ThisLupicia Kiwi Black Tea contained 50 g. The tea was sourced from China, packaged in Japan, and purchased in Kanazawa, Japan in 2015.