★★★★★
One of my favorites. I like how I can get a few cups out of just one serving.
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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One of my favorites. I like how I can get a few cups out of just one serving.
I am usually a black tea drinker, but wanted to sample a green tea too. I have learned to appreciate the subtle notes of the gyokuro and enjoy a cup in the afternoon. Thanks to Adagio for their samples to help me exapand my tea horizons!
This is a tasty tea with a meaty flavor and a soft, brothy mouth feel. Be careful brewing it, as it seemed even more sensitive than other Japanese greens to temperature and steeping time.
I usually order my Gyokuro directly from Japan but decided to try this one. It's quite good, but I do prefer the one from Japan and the price of this is just a bit too high to reorder.
This was a great green. Very rich and vegetal. It does have to be brewed with care but it's very rewarding when done right. It's not my favorite green, and in the end I'm glad I just bought the sampler, but I do not regret giving it a try.
this tea is truly devine. The leaves are a nice bold green, giving a beautiful green tint to the tea. The flavor is beautifully simple and clean. Well worth the extra price. Grab a sampler and try it!
A very special tea with crisp clean flavor. HIGHLY recommended!
Although it's pricy, this tea is well worth the cost.
i love a good gyokuro, but i've had a few problems with adagio's. it tends to get bitter quickly, and i find its flavor a bit flat but it's a good overall green.
This year's version seemed more powdery than last year. Kind of like it was crushed. I think it also tasted more minty than I remember.
This tea is actually a very good tea. BUT Adagio sells the broken (cheaper) version - which is not the best kind.
Typically Gyokuro are very little long/rolled leaves. The tea supplied by Adagio are the 'crumbs' - it should be noted clearly in the description.
Brews a wonderful green color, with a lot of vegetably flavors. With most Japanese greens, it's very difficult to brew correctly. I multiple brew, starting with a very low 160F and 90 seconds to open the leaves. After that, 30s, 60s, etc.
this is truly an excellent tea - it's reminiscent of matcha and colors the tea a pleasant bright green. Technically could be used to create a matcha "latte", if you're looking for something a little different - but also excellent on its own. Great quality, rejuvenating and delicious. Worth the cost.
This is Japanese green tea at its finest. We're talking epic tea. Well worth the price. Try steeping at a lower temp and shorter than recommended. Enjoy.
My favorite tea by far, but I've long been obsessed with Japan, so keep my bias in mind. It's a different sort of tea from other greens. It's very fresh, almost lacks aroma when dry, and you can definitely tell it's full of chlorophyll. It makes you feel healthy, and it's the only tea I've seen that actually steeps to a green hue, rather than yellow or brown.
by far the best green tea, but it is just so so so expensive!
I love the look of the leaves resembling dark green silky needles. The smell is very grassy and a bit off-putting. Some people, I recall, describing this tea as a broccoli water :) But I actually like the taste. It is grassy, vegetal not as sweet as Sencha.
The leaves were a little dusty, had some smaller pieces that made me question the quality. That aside, the grassy aroma of the dry leaves surprisingly produced only a mild grassy taste. Mellow and smooth. I might suggest to brew gently, as i noticed a slight brassy flavor.. but that might just be due to the smaller particles brewing quickly.
A very subtle and mellow green tea. I like the low tannins, because you can really taste the other flavors. You have to like the grassy Japanese-style teas to enjoy this one, however.
I LOVE this tea. I can't really put into words why, but it is extremely soothing. I find that I literally crave it if I haven't had it in a few days. I am not a green tea purist, so I do steep it with honey and serve it with a little milk.
I'm temperamental about my green tea. This is a little too grassy for my tastes. It has that sort of fresh plant kind of flavor. Too strong, not my thing.
Not my favorite tea. I think its good but the malty flavor that backs up the rich smokyness of the tea sort of ruins the flavor. I prefer Dragon Well so far.
The single most wonderful tea I have ever tasted. Just amazing.
We aren't big green tea fans in general, but this one tasted especially grassy to us.
Intense vegetal aromas. This tea would be nice with some sushi if only I could make my own.
i absolutely love this tea. very special and delicate. i love it in the morning, it's a great start of the day, at home or in the office.
I must say that I do like this tea. I have read on other review sites, that this wasn't an exceptional tea, maybe that's true...but I enjoyed it.
The first infusion was a bit 'salty', but the second infusion turned out better; it had a sweeter taste and more of a cloudy jade color.
Gyokuro is a very finicky tea, too hot, too little or much (amount wise) and it can yield a bitter cup.
Follow the instructions, or even cut down the time to 2 min. and use a little more (again, amount wise) than you would for other teas, and you will have a pleasurable cup of Japanese green tea.
Try the sample first because it may not suit all tastes and $40 for 5 oz. is a little too expensive to throw out if not liked.
I would recommend this tea to the tea connoisseur/experienced green tea drinker.
An extremely traditional green tea, this is what I would imagine most people think of when they think green tea. If you're looking for something a little grassy but undeniably green, gyokuro is a great choice.
This tea reminded me of the wheatgrass shot at Jamba juice. Has a very medicinal taste to it.
This is a different green than most. Has a very grassy, vegetable-like taste. Can be steeped multiple times.
I love this tea, it really has a stronger flavor.
I heard great things about this tea and I was a little dissapointed. It's possible I bought it at a bad time (way off season).
Enjoyable green tea, but White Monkey is still my favorite.
I was really surprised. Brews a wonderful bright but full color bursting with Japanese green flavor. A+++. Well worth the money. You will NOT be disappointed!
I'm a fan of Japanese green teas, this was my first tasting of gyrokuro. It has a really grassy taste to it, if you don't like that kind of thing you shouldn't be drinking greens.
A lush and delicate green tea with a taste that is out of this would, am definitely going to buy more next time!
Fabulous Japanese green for certain. Though the price over sencha makes me wonder if I'm brewing it correctly for it doesn't seem quite that much better following Adagio's steeping recomendations.
This was an 'all right' everyday green tea. I prefer Dragonwell though. The leaves of Gyokuro are very small and will work their way through most filters.
I did not really care for this green. I like greens quite a bit, but this tea is fussy. It is difficult to get the leaf/water ratio correct; is it difficult to get the temperature and steep time correct. It is easily oversteeped or missteeped which makes it too much of a hassle for me.
My new favorite green tea. I love the Genmaicha but this is now my favorite just tastes green! :)
Honestly, I didn't really find this one worth the extra money. Although good, it wasn't THAT good.
I know this is expensive. But personally this is one of the worst teas I have tried. Maybe I am missing something but this tasted like lawn clippings.
I'm not big on green teas but thought I'd try this out. If green tea was all I had access to, this is what I'd choose.
Excellent tea. Tea is very fine and recommended a good filter.
I don't think I have ever tasted any green tea as good as this. It is creamy but not overtly so; it is tasty, green, and fresh but not fishy as with some green teas I have tried! This makes me feel so great, and because this is fairly expensive, I treat myself with gyokuro after an exam or a stressful task.
This is an excellent quality green. It was a touch fresh and grassy for me though. I'm more a fan of the gunpower green.
I ordered this as a sample, and wasn't sure what to expect. It was okay, but not really to my taste--it brews up pleasantly, but tastes a lot like fresh-mown grass to me, which really wasn't what I was looking for!
Of course, it is expensive, but it is an extremely refined tea, with taste like no other. A definite recommendation! I used to dislike green teas, but gyokuro made me change my mind.
I enjoy this tea but it isn't my favorite green tea. It does have a unique taste though so I like have a cup every now and then for a change.
Simply unpleasant. There's plenty of flavor here, it's just that you wish there weren't. It's earthy but not in the good way that a nice pu ehr is earthy, this is just...wrong.