★★★★★
Gyokuro is one of if not my favorite green tea from adagio. It has a wonderful smell, color, and taste. If you don't like vegetal and grassy then it isn't for you.
Steamed green tea from Japan. Gyokuro is among the finest of Japanese teas. Deeply sweet, aroma of freshly buttered greens - no grassiness or harshness. Soft on the palate with a balanced, delicate finish. Soothing and centering cup of tea.
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Gyokuro is one of if not my favorite green tea from adagio. It has a wonderful smell, color, and taste. If you don't like vegetal and grassy then it isn't for you.
The most beautiful cup of tea I have ever tasted. A subtle harmonious taste of the greenness of the earth.
A simple Gyokuro that hits the spot when you need that fresh vegetal flavor.
Light on the richness of this style, but grassy enough to compensate.
The more I drink this, the more it really becomes one of my favorite green teas. It's very light but still has a bold flavor. It's the slightest bit sweet and just a little vegetal. I really enjoy it when I'm eating chocolate!
Note: Nagashima says in his own comments here that one should steep Gyokuro in 100 degree water slowly, and drink it over a long period of time.
This is a great cup of tea, but it's very clear that it's not (at least this year) to the same standard as some other sources. Itoen (a Japanese company that very obviously sources its products from Japan) shows very clearly what Gyokuro looks like, whereas Adagio's product has been crushed to some degree somewhere along the way. The crushing makes it steep faster, leading to the bitter note some people are complaining of, when Gyokuro is supposed to be delicate and sweet.
Adagio would do well to note better the grade they're using. Until then, Teavana provides an equal-priced full-leaf Gyokuro, and Itoen provides a more expensive, but highest-quality, Gyokuro, that will provide the quality people are paying for.
The tea itself is still excellent - but there are better sources on the market.
This tea is an excellent choice to get energized and wake up. Perfect morning tea.
This is our favorite green tea -- simply fantastic!
This is one of my favorites. The smells is almost sweet. I would prefer if Adagio sold a higher quality of this tea as well.
Drinking this green tea for over 7 years. My daily staple. It has gradually gotten moor expensive buts is still very much worth it. If you like a more traditional green tea flavor with slight sweetness this is for you. Tea remarkably has a nice calming effect. Highly recommended!!!
A great tea for those with a knack for all things vegetal and leafy! Its quite the savory treat though might be quite exotic to some, its like drinking boiled vegetal essence. Something not to feel guilty when drinking this tea.
I spent two years in Japan, and ever since I have been looking for green teas similar to what one finds in ryokan and with kaiseki. Gyokuro is what I remember drinking, however other reviewers have rightly pointed out that these leaves aren't whole. The flavor is excellent, imo, but others imply a better price can be had elsewhere. Now that I know the name of the type of tea I'm looking for, I intend to compare.
Love the smell! Bought some gyokuro at a cheaper price from a shop though.
Tastes like Snow Peas and is rather nice. Tastes a lot like Chinese green tea.
I love the Japanese green teas, there is not much more I can say about them. This one was very rich and flavorful, one of the best second only to the Kukicha.
Excellent aroma and flavor, very delicate with a pleasant vegetable quality.
Good full flavor. Enjoyed the robust flavor without it being overpowerful.
An amazing Japanese green tea! I'm in love! But with all Japanese green teas, it does get VERY bitter if you're not careful. This isn't forgiving at all. Watch your steep times and temperatures. I like this with a little sweetener. Will order again!!! Very worth the money.
Despite being uncomfortably pricey, this is a tea that quite literally makes me feel great. The dark leaves produce a beautiful deep green colour, and the taste is very rich.
A rather decent green tea. Not one I'd drink all the time, but a nice change of pace from my usual.
This is a very good green tea, but its flavor doesn't jump out at me as being particularly special. It's an 'everyday' green tea, but not exceptional enough for special occasions.
The leaves are quite broken. It's more like gyokuro dust than anything else. If you have a very fine strainer, it's still delicious.
YUM!! Now I don’t really don’t have anything to compare this to except the matcha powder in the Starbucks green tea latte, but dang this is good! Apparently they make matcha from these leaves, so if you like that, you will probably like this too! The colour is gorgeous, it has a bit of a grassy smell, but it’s very fresh and sweet, I’d say it’s more sweet than sencha. For me, the only downside to this green tea is the price
Gyokuro is my new favorite green tea. It has a full, hearty flavor. The only drawback from this tea is that it needs to be steeped at 170 degrees, so after you bring it to a boil, then you have to wait around until the temperature drops back down.
Gyokuro is Green Tea at its best. GIven names such as Precious Dew Drop, it is the Queen of the Green in my humble opinion. It has Strength and character, it can hold its own, no wilting faded leaf will you find here! When brewed, the leaves return almost to a freshly plucked Green color. The taste is strong, but never bitter. I am an oolong girl, so I like to see if teas will allow second and third brews. This one holds up to a second brew barely different from the first. Be sure to follow temp instructions though!! If burnt it will taste like you steeped your lawn clippings.
I don't mind green teas that taste grassy. But, if you're not a fan, not to worry. This tea isn't too grassy. It's right in the middle (in my opinion!).
Has a potent spinach-like taste to it, or grassy as others have described it. The tea becomes a deep green when steeping and you can immediately smell the spinach-like notes that I have described.
I hate to say it but the gyokuro I got from Adagio was not as good as the gyokuro I received from Teavana. Teavana's gyokuro was whole leaves whereas Adagio's were all broken up with very few whole leaves left intact. I used 3.5g, steeped for a little over 1 minute at 150 degrees and had a nice cup of green tea, but it seemed like it had less l-theanine than Teavana's gyokuro. I will finish the rest of the sample gyokuro I bought from Adagio and hopefully if I tweak the steeping temp/time/quantity I can yield a cup that is on par with Teavana's gyokuro.
The flavor is pretty good, but I've had better. I'm not sure if this is the best quality for the price.
Has that wonderful classic Japanese green tea flavor - vegetal and smooth. Unique compared to the cheaper greens. Might not be for everyone, but I enjoy it!
I love Japanese green tea and I have tried multiple ones. This is one that has more of a grassy flavor and I liked it a lot though it is not my favorite.
Gyokoro is my preferred Japanese green tea. As others pointed out, for a tea of this type, the leaves are pretty broken up. But this is still a good tea - a bright green color with a light, sweet vegetal taste and a hint of that added mysterious flavor that makes Gyokoros so good. Overall good, but pricey.
Not the best gyokuro I've tried, it is cut way too fine, lacking umami
Great cup of tea. I have been looking for a great Japanese green tea outside of a Japanese restaurant.
In spite of my best efforts to be mindful of water temperature and steep time, I was unable to brew a batch of this tea that did not taste like boiled spinach.
I'm in search of a good Japanese tea and the Gyokuro that Adagio sells is pretty good ... but not up to the quality I expect (which I expected from some of the other reviews of the 2012 batch). Figured I'd try the sampler anyway. Going to try their Sencha and see if that is better.
Not really sure if this is my kind of tea yet. It smells great out of the bag it came in
Barely any flavor...like drinking hot water with just a hint of taste and then you're still wondering if you really can taste something.
This is a nice tasting green, not too bitter or earthy.
I'm not sure if I got a bum sample or what, but following brew instructions to the letter resulted in what basically amounted to bitter-tinged water. The aroma was there, barely, with a hint of spearmint after steeping. But the flavor was just... gone. The fragrance allowed me to taste a ghost of something vegetal and barely sweet, but that tiny bitter finish killed all taste. I'm hoping that my sample was one of those rare occurrences of failure, but I probably wouldn't buy again due to how expensive this tea is.
Gyokuro definitely has some vegetal qualities. However, despite my abhorrence for vegetables, Gyokuro is one of my favorite greens. I imagine that this is the tea that the jolly green giant drinks. Obviously based on his endorsement deal the price of Gyokuro is no big deal, but it is a little steep for me.
clean and elegent green tea with excellent grassy notes.
These vividly colored leaves produce a pale yellow/green infusion. Smooth, grassy, no astringency: a refreshing cup of tea.
When I first brewed this tea, I noticed a vegetal flavor that I didn't really care for. I added agave nectar, and it surprisingly complimented this tea wonderfully. really enjoyable
The best green tea I have ever tried. The one I have tried for the first time had whole leaves(different store). The adagio is different, 'crushed' leaves and the taste is not good as the other was. But it is cheaper so I can afford it.
Good tea, has a fairly strong vegatable flavor which you'll either love or hate.
The best green tea I have ever tasted. It has no bitterness or grassy taste if brewed at 158 degrees for 1 1/2 minutes.
A traditional standby. This is not exceptional, but it is great to have for a refreshing drink.
I've never been a fan of Japanese teas, and this one is extremely Japanese. Grassy and dusty aren't for me.
I was looking forward to gyokuro because the description said it was a buttery, non-grassy tea. However, I felt like it was a little more earthy than I had hoped. Perhaps I brewed it incorrectly, but it was not my favorite. Probably won't order again.