Starbucks Coffee will release a new product " Fruit Crush & Tea " for autumn and winter on October 1st. I had a chance to taste the new work, which is "a new hot drink that is neither coffee nor espresso"!

◆ “Fruit-eating” black tea

A hot drink that you will want to drink in the cold season. Until now, the classics have been espresso-based drinks such as latte and caramel macchiato, and hot coffee. Besides that, it seems that this product was developed to increase "new options".

The new Fruit Crush & Tea is a "fruit + tea" hot drink with the theme of "Drinkable Fruit". Put a fruit sauce with 4 kinds of bright red fruits (strawberry, apple, raspberry, red grape) in a cup, add a tea bag of tea and hot water, float freeze-dried strawberry and apple, and you're done.


The contents of the provided cup are impressive in bright red. As you get closer, you will feel the sour scent of fruit. Already, a tremendous fruity feeling!

When you drink it, you can feel the freshness of the fruit while it looks like flavored tea. Freeze-dried cut into dice has a crispy texture, and when chewed, the acidity pops. It's black tea, but it's a mysterious feeling that you can enjoy the texture of eating fruit. Is it unique to black tea that it is rich but has a refreshing aftertaste?


Freeze-drying becomes softer as you continue to drink, but this gives it a compote-like texture and is delicious. The reason for using freeze-drying is that you can enjoy the flesh of the tea without lowering the temperature of the tea.

And at the end, the taste of the sauce that was in the bottom becomes stronger. This sauce is also fibrous and lumpy, and the fruitiness remains, which makes it more satisfying to drink.


It's like Russian tea, where you can enjoy jam and tea together, but the strength of the "fruitiness" is a new sensation. When you want to avoid coffee, when you are hungry for fruits, you are not good at coffee, but you are going to Starbucks with friends ... It seems to be useful in various situations. I'm usually a coffee writer, but I wonder if this kind of satisfying tea is an ant.

◆ Tea-based refreshing frappe

"Fruit Crush Cream & Frappuccino" will be on sale along with hot drinks. This is finished by blending the same fruit sauce and iced tea as hot drinks, mixing freeze-dried, and adding milk cream in a marble shape. The freeze-dried texture that claims to be fluffy is fresh! Freeze-drying seems to be hard to absorb water, so you can enjoy crispy until the end of drinking.


A new tea-based drink that even people who are not good at coffee can enjoy. Hot will be on sale until November 30th and Frappuccino will be on sale until November 4th. Even though they use the same material, you can enjoy a completely different look, so it is recommended to compare both hot and frappe. Enjoy the change in freeze-dried texture!