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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Packaging recommends steeping for 2 — 3 minutes at 180 degrees. I steeped my first cup for 2 minutes at 180 degrees, and steeped my second cup (per the recommendations of this community) for 90 seconds at 175 degrees. Both cups were delicious. Excellent green tea with light, almost-sweet grassy flavors and a whispered astringency at the finish.
The description of 'smokey' made me cautiously sip this CommuniTea packet because I don't really like smoked flavors in my tea, nor do I like heavy vegetal tastes. However, this tea is so subtle in both those departments and it all works well. It's vegetal but like a deep woods fern versus an open meadow grass.
Light with a buttery finish after I steeped for two minutes. I found it to be a delight for a mix or great iced. Originally I tried this tea hot, but saved just enough to also enjoy iced.
I was surprised at how light the color and taste was for this tea. I steeped at 180 F x 2 min and there was no grassiness or astringency at all. I did not need to add a sweetener either. This was a simple green tea that satisfied me.
Well rounded green tea. A lil buttery, a lil vegetal, a lil floral. I'm normally not a big fan of vegetal greens, but this one was subtle enough & had the other flavor notes, so it was a pleasant change of pace.
Today's CommuniTea packet is pi lo chun, a Chinese green tea from Jiangsu province. This is a great tea to brew in clear teapot, if you have one. The leaves expand significantly and it's fun to watch them dance. It's scent is interesting, almost like fruity spinach. In tasting it, it's grassy, but smooth; a bit on the astringent side, leaving your mouth dry. Generally, I prefer a simple 'pure' tea to some of the busier blends, and this one is no exception. Very nice. (Brewed in 12 ounces of 180°F water for two minutes.)
Delicious! This green tea is not grassy at all, but has a mild vegetal and buttery taste with a slight sweetness to it. It’s also very delicate so I brewed this one at 175 for 1.5min to avoid any bitterness.
Delightful! I'm a fan of plain teas and look forward to simple CommuniTEA days. This is a light, vegetal, light green tea that likes a gentle steep and then gentle sipping. It is fresh and smooth. Highly recommend!
A green tea greets me in my CommuniTea packet. Will this be bitter or grassy or both? I brew super carefully and take a hesitant sip, then another. Not grassy and no bitterness. Wow! This is a green tea I can enjoy! From hot all the way to cooled, I happily sip away. Not sure if I could consistently brew this one but I'll enjoy the time I got green tea right.
Soothing green tea with a slightly dry finish! This is a very delicious and high quality green tea, but it is less vegetal and sweet than some other varieties. The result is a more savory tea that is still fairly delicate!
Very good sweet green tea. I was very careful with the water temp and it paid off. Very yummy.
Great tea and great green tea flavor. i really enjoy classic green teas and this hit the nail on the head! added a little honey to give it a little more sweetness
I steeped this CommuniTEA packet for about 2 minutes. I was expecting it to be light and a bit grassy but it's the complete opposite. This is a HEAVY green tea. It's not smokey or savory, not too complex, but it's a very satisfying flavor. The flavor is a bit vegetal, especially towards the end. I can see how some people would call this one 'vegetable water'. It lacks some of the smoothness I love from other green teas. I resteeped for 2.5 minutes and the result was a tea that tasted pretty good, but definitely not as good as the first. It's worth a resteep, but it's a different experience. I would love to drink this one again, but I prefer lighter flavors so I won't be keeping it on hand.
When I opened my CommuniTEA packet, I was greeted by a really beautiful little pile of tea leaves - twisted and green with soft silver fuzz. They also smelled amazing. I brewed my cup at 175 for just under 3 minutes, and the liquor turned out to be a beautiful pale gold color, which also smelled fantastic. It tastes as good as it smells. This is an absolutely delicious green tea, without the overwhelming vegetal flavor of some green teas. It has a floral aroma, but not an overtly floral flavor. I highly recommend this, and am personally tempted to order a bag. Delicious.
This tea is exactly as the description details. Mild but flavorful, no grassiness. It's savory, smooth, a little floral, a tiny bit earthy, a little astringent, with no bitterness when steeped for 2 minutes. It is a heavier tea than I expected for a green. It's easy to drink and is worth paying attention to as you sip to get all the notes.
This tea tastes like a good example of a buttery, vegetal tea but I just can't get into it. It tastes luxurious and almost creamy but it's really not my favorite.
I liked this tea. Not the best green I've ever had, but it was good. I was actually surprised at how much flavor it had when it ran so clear when I removed the infuser. It was a little astringent, but I tamed that with a cube of sugar. Almost wish I had a half cube of sugar to see what that would do, but I found the one cube tamed the astringency and let a very pleasant flavor bloom. It also steeped a second time very well. Tasted as part of The CommuniTea.
Enjoying along with the CommuniTEA today: This green tea drinker is in heaven! Subtle notes of earthy clay detected from the dry ingredients and packet. Once steeped for about 2.5 mins at 185°F, I notice buttery notes with essense of grass (like a gourmet butter made from grass-fed cows) from my cup. When I take a sip, I notice subtle, slightly mineral hay notes with a grassy-buttery finish. If you enjoy sleeping dragon (my everyday tea), you will love this tea.
Have never been a fan of green teas. Their are very few that I like and they are usually blended with something else to help hide the grassy taste and smell. This is a great green tea to start exploring the green tea world with. There is an earthy, vegetable taste to it, but it is subtle and not over powering. There is a nice floral and smoky taste lingering on the palate, but again not over powering at all. I was able to steep this 3 times with each one mellowing out the vegetable taste and letting the buttery and floral tastes shine. I also added a little orange slice which was very nice. The citrus flavors in the tea pop a little more and made this very pleasant to drink. I would have given this 4 stars, but my son absolutely loved this tea and drank most of mine. Also, it tastes very much like its description so it earned a 5 star for those reasons. 170° for 2 mins.
I like this tea, A new tea for me to enjoy! It was a different kind of green tea, and I like it cold too.
Every time the CommuniTea has a plain green tea, I ask myself 'why don't you drink more of this? '
This is a lovely, delicate, delicious green tea. I steeped at 180F for 3 minutes. Perfection! Happy Sipping
This was absolutely awful. Reading the other reviews I’m wondering if something was wrong with my packet today. It had hardly and smell at all, and tasted more like mold than like a proper green tea.
Subtle and smooth, slight green at the end with floral...not too grassy of veggie. The tea itself is really pretty. Not my favorite green, but easy to drink...enjoyable!
I frankly do not care for most green teas. This was a wonderful tea however, and I not only drank it all I even made a second cup.
A very strong grassy green taste for me, but a very good one? Sharp grass with a floral note.
A bit astringent, I wish I had seen the review that tried it at 160F and had brewed it that way.
There is nothing offensive about this tea, but there’s just not much too it. Everyone is talking about how delicate it is, maybe I need flavors that whack me in the face. I did follow the instructions and did a 3 minute steep at 180°.
I've been able to try different varieties of green tea through the Communitea boxes, but I have to say that this one was probably my least favorite. I steeped this tea for 1.5 minutes at 180F. Hot, I really couldn't find much flavor. After allowing the tea to cool, I noticed a floral scent, but there was an astringent aftertaste that was overwhelming the flavor even though I only steeped the tea for a short time. Maybe I would like this tea better brewed at a lower temperature. I also missed a slight leafiness that is usually found in green tea.
180/3mins sweetened with honey.
This is a delightful cup of tea to start the day with it for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up. Warm, soothing taste sure to help you relax.
Dry tea smells mildly like hay, and is a nice collection of green and silver curls. Once brewed, the liquor is a light golden green and has a slight vegetal scent. The tea is full bodied in mouthfeel, with some sweetness mixing with the slight vegetal flavors. The finish has most of the green vegetal notes with a hint of smokiness. The tea feels thicker than it is while drinking, and has very fresh notes that start to taste like buttered greens in the finish. Second infusion tastes the same as the first. This is a very nice green tea if you are in the mood for something a bit on the savory side. Brewed at 180 for 2 minutes first infusion, 3 minutes second infusion. Tastes like a third infusion would still do well, although weaker in flavor.
I hate giving such a bad review, but I really didn’t like this tea at all! It tasted very vegetable like, like the water from cooking spinach or asparagus or Brussel sprouts. I tend to enjoy more floral and light green teas. This one is a complete pass!
175 degrees for 3 minutes. I've found the more Chinese green teas I try, the more I realize how much I like them. This one is no exception. Its soft and sweet and buttery with a lovely floral scent that reminds me of lotus blossoms. I love the chance to try all these teas through the communiTea that I might not have ordered on my own. Nice and calming afternoon tea.
This is one reason i enjoy the CommuniTEA i get to sample a green tea that i wouldn't normally buy. This was generally a nice, non-grassy green tea. I sampled this tea as part of the CommuniTEA May 2021 box.
As a green tea, I can tell this is a really nice, high quality tea. That said, I'm not an enormous green tea lover, so it's hard for me to land on one that is a WOW. However, if green tea is your happy place, give this one a try! You'll probably appreciate it properly.
a very gentel green tea. the first few sips have an astrigint bite thats very enjoyable and the flavor mellows as it begins to coat your tongue. it leaves a pleasant after taste so just remember to pair it well if you plan on eating anything with this tea
This was generally a nice, non-grassy green. Not a favorite but pretty good!
As someone who doesn't like green tea all that much, I didn't expect to like this - so I was surprised how much I did! Nutty, almost wheat-like flavors were the most prominent, with a bit of that classic green grassiness. The finish had a hint of sweetness, and it's held up well to multiple steepings. Perhaps it's time for ms to dip my toe in the green tea waters again...
A very tasty tea with a sweet scent that brews to a golden color. Beautiful layer of flavors with grassy greens and subtle floral notes. (2tsp to 16 oz, 3 mins @ 175°F)
I'm not a fan of savory teas I don't think. Its not bad, but I definitely wouldn't reach for it if I had options. Reminds me of vegetable broth
Tastes like hay. I added some stevia. Now it tastes like sweetened hay.
Steamy flavor, with a nice smooth taste. I'm not sure if this makes sense, but it's kind of like sauna flavored tea?
This had a wonderful, authentic green tea scent in the packet, and a delightful edamame flavor that's fragrant and savory without being flowery. I really loved this one! (2 mins @ 180 F)
This is the way I like it but a little light. liquid is light in color. Buttery taste. It's definitely green tea and the way I'm accustomed to green tea.
Smelled like dry hay in the packet, and tasted like spinach water. This was a lighter vegetal flavor than some I've tried and wasn't super astringent, but I personally don't care for the vegetal green teas. (reviewed through CommuniTEA; 3 min @ 180F)
Smooth, light, and delicious especially with some honey! Just make sure to not oversteep or use boiling water!
A smooth green tea, floral and a little fruity. It's naturally sweet and not at all grassy or vegetal.
This is the third green tea I have sampled. While steeping, it smells like a hoppy beer (no joke), but I actually kind of liked it. The flavor is light and slightly floral, not grassy at all. I had a note of bitterness on the backend of the sip, but that could have been due to too high of a steeping temperature (currently working with heating water in the microwave). I'm not sure if I'll purchase a full bag (I'm just not huge on green teas), but it definitely grew on me from the top to the bottom of the mug!
Light and buttery green tea with hay tones. I do get a slight mineral taste at the end of the sip. Overall, a nice springtime tea to sip on the hammock as I catch up with a good book and no distractions (sigh...I wish!)
Pi lo chun tea was a very pleasant sip today. 2 tsp. of silver and moss colored tea leaves, tightly rolled fell out of my CT packet. It had a scent of sun kissed grass rather than a newly mowed lawn. I attentively brewed at 175F for 3 min. for some teas have tempers and become angry and bitter if not handled with care. This is one. The reward for nurturing this green is a non bitter tea that is a delight to sip. Its light gold liquor had a bright vegetal scent with a taste to match. The tea's smooth and slightly buttery texture gives its naturally sweet vegetal flavor a satisfying fullness of taste. I didn’t detect any bitterness from the full 3 min. steep just some pleasant astringency that let me know I had pulled the steep just in time.
I preferred this green sipped plain. I tried sweetening it with a bit of honey and chilled a sweetened mini cup also. The honey in the hot tea interrupted its natural sweetness and its other subtle flavors too while sweetening the cold version had an opposite effect for me. Curiously though, the sweetened cold version was more tasty after chilling and maturing for 12 hours than a just chilled version of only a couple of hours old. This tea stretches well and I could enjoy a few more flavorful resteeps using less water each time.
I was glad to try this tea. It’s edged me closer to including more tasty green teas like this one in my tea rotation. Sipping with CT has definitely expanded my tastes. Green tea was never a usual for me before these daily mystery sips.
I would need to try this tea again for the best review. I accidentally over steeped the tea and there was more bitterness than I enjoy.