★★★★☆
I like this tea with it's nice green color and has a very nice lite smooth sweet taste. Perfect for the afternoon or early evening.
Green tea from Jiangsu, China. Made from the finest tender buds, hand-plucked and rolled. Perfumy and sweet floral, with a full body and slightly earthy and savory quality. Lingering, aromatic finish and delicate floral-smoky note.
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I like this tea with it's nice green color and has a very nice lite smooth sweet taste. Perfect for the afternoon or early evening.
Overall I enjoyed the tea. I did find it to be slightly grassy.
My favorite green tea to date, somewhat strong grassy aroma, I would say a medium strength, very tasty!
This was the first green tea that I have had from Adagio. I enjoyed it... very light flavor.
This one has somewhat of a light vegetal taste. Very smooth and oily feeling on the tongue.
This is a green with the usual grassy flavors. Good if you're a fan of greens but it doesn't match my tastes.
This is a good green tea! I didn't like greens at all when I first started and really had to get used to the flavor. This is really good!
I really like this green tea. It leaves a pleasant aftertaste and is a good alternative to all the blends and flavored teas I have been trying.
I'm not really a big fan of most green teas, for the same reason most people aren't--the vegetal grassy taste & bitterness from not brewing the picky tea up just right.
This tea is definitely better than my other entry into the green tea world (lipton green tea bags). I can see myself being in the mood for this sometimes, but not today. The tea is nice, but it just didn't fit my fancy right now.
The flavor is dominated by a combination of a sharp vegetal/grassy flavor and floral notes. In fact, the tea smells just like summer when it's brewed. Be sure to not steep this one for too long, as it gets grassier the longer it sits.
The second infusion had many more floral notes and a few fruity flavors as well. The grassy flavor was there too, but more in the finish than the main flavor of the tea.
Side note--brewing this one with my ingeuiTEA left a bit of very bitter tasting dust in the bottom of my cup. Also, not entirely sure on the temp. I got almost-boiling water and let it sit for a few minutes before preparing the tea. The water was too hot to touch or drink, but not really throwing off steam either.
Very lovely tea. Delicate and a little earthy. Delightful. Very tasty. I think this might be my new favorite green tea.
i just like japanese greens a bit better than chinese. this isn't a bad tea, it's just not my style.
Sweet and flowery, this is a nice mild chinese tea.
Wonderful green tea. It smells great, and tastes just as good.
I love this tea so much! Is a such a mild flavor and always a pleasant drink. Its smell is wonderful and it is great for any occasion.
pi lo chun is a lovely example of a chinese grfeen tea. It is my daily go-to tea, and never fails to put a smile on my face from the first sip to the bottom of the cup. Don't oversteep or it gets bitter quickly!
Smells a bit rice-cakey. The coloring is somewhere between a white and green tea color. After steeping the rice-cakey smell turns into a slight - that's a VERY slight - smoky scent. The taste seems a little reminiscent of green tea meets plain-NO-buttered popcorn. The aftertaste is a bit grassy. Not bad. But not in my fave TOP 30 Adagio's.
A delightful daily green tea - light color and medium-bodied flavor - very enjoyable with no bitterness!
Unspectacular. Mild, grassy, a tiny bit smoky. OK when I want a green, but would choose other greens before this one.
I work at a large chain tea store, and we haven't had Pi Lo Chun for a really long time. I decided to try Adagio's Pi Lo in hopes that I could get my fix. I was not disappointed in the least. This tea has a delicate milky undertone with an amazing green color and fantastic aroma. As someone who sells teas for a living, I highly suggest it.
I bought this tea on a whim as a substitue for white monkey when it was out of season and I wasn't disappointed. I thought it was lighter than white monkey and has a pleasant almost woody flavor.
This tea is quite finicky. If you are precise with the time and temperature, you should usually be happy with the result.
This tea is very light and delicate. I think it is one of my favorite adagio teas!
Absolutely love Pi Lo Chun. After trying it in a sampler, I reordered this and I've been mostly drinking this guy. It has a slight after taste to it... I like it!
Not bad for a very light cup of green tea. Good as an afternoon tea. Although the flavor is light it is actually pretty complex. I picked up a sweet jammy quality (like plums) as well as woody and vegetal notes. Very interesting tea.
This tea has a light and pleasing taste, although one has to be careful not to overbrew--otherwise you end up with a rubbery-tasting cup.
A good green. Less grassy than any Japanese green and tastes pretty similar to White Monkey.
A green tea that's very easy to brew. It is robust without being overpowering. A little sweet and a little wood, too.
A great example of what a green tea shouold taste like.
I truly did not like this tea. I even understeeped the tea and it still was too strong. Had a fish like flavor to it. Not for me.
Not grassy in flavor; sligtly sweet. It's one of the teas I use to warm up on a cold morning.
Quite possibly my favorite green tea. Nice subtle woody flavor, just be careful not to oversteep it or it goes bitter pretty quickly.
A good, basic green tea with a predictable flavor.
leaf quality isn't great, but the taste very good, strong characteristics of a pi lo chun
Not my favorite of green teas, but among the runners-up. It's very mild and refreshing--it does have a bite to it if oversteeped, though.
Crisp clean, but subtle, green tea flavor. Second steeping is my favorite.
This is a lovely green tea with a delicate and complex flavor. A good find!
Has a nice honey flavor to it but is just not my favorite Chinese green.
A light, slightly sweet and almost creamy tasting tea. A good tea to introduce those new to green teas.
A robust and earthy Chinese green with lighter grassy notes normally associated with Japanese greens.
A nice green tea with a simple taste that I liked very much
this green was just to light. it isnt as good as dragon well.
i found this to be a little too earthy for me to really enjoy it. i would reach for something else before I would steep this one and serve to my guests.
There is just something about Chinese green teas that I absolutely love, and this one is no exception. Perhaps my new favorite green tea.
Very flavorful, yet a very relaxing type of tea, highly recommended.
Nice natural sweetness, very pleasant tea all around.
This tea seemed sensative in that it got bitter if it was left to steep just a little too long. Having said that, when done right, it had a very nice, gentle, almost sweet flavor.
Very much enjoyed this. Smooth and mellow, liked it better than Green Monkey.
Similar to White Monkey to me, and that's not a bad thing, but copmaring prices, I'd go for WM. Still, some may appreciate the subtle differences between the two and go for this one.
A delicate and smooth green tea--no astringency or grassiness, just a soft, sweet flavor. Great with food, too!
This was the first green tea that I had purchased through Adagio. I found the scent to be very earthy. The taste was earthy too but it was not overpowering. I was pleasantly surprised.