★★★★☆
It had a flavor I wasn't used to, but it tastes very fresh. A good tea.
Classic steamed green tea from Shizuoka, Japan. Crisp and clean cup, notes of freshly steamed edamame. Refreshing, sweet, and much more delicate than most Senchas. If you're new to Sencha (and the vibrant teas of Japan in general), this would be a great place to start.
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It had a flavor I wasn't used to, but it tastes very fresh. A good tea.
My only complaint is that my sample isn't going to last longer. Every sip takes me back to my year in Japan. The flavor is wonderful - if you like Japanese green tea, this should be a staple for you.
Delicious Japanese tea! This clean, crisp cup has a natural sweetness to be enjoyed by all.
This is one of my go-to greens. It can be light and or strong depending on how it is brewed.
Excellent green tea.
Grassy and fragrant. Worth the extra money.
Overall well balanced.
Color: chartreuse (traditional), lemon-lime. Green with a hint of bright golden hue.
Body: light-medium, smooth finish but with some lingering astringent after taste
Initial aroma strength: slightly on the delicate side but generally welcoming
Aroma: grass, lime, hint of nuts (high fat), butter.
Quite sensitive to brewing time and temperature.
This is my favorite tea I ve found on Adagio so far!
Excellent sencha. Great umami, grassy flavor. Personally, I find that the lower the temperature, the more pronounced the umami flavor.
I love the super grassy green teas and this one doesn't disappoint! If you like strong vegetal undertones in your tea, give this one a try. I think it tastes best as it begins to cool off.
I have been trying to replace my DAVIDsTEA ‘Sencha Ashikubo’ for a while now. I have been switching from them to Adagio for a few reasons. 1. DAVIDsTEA’s customer service is so terrible. And 2. They have so much emphasis on teaware, I feel they have lost what tea is about.
Adagio has so many straight green teas to choose from, but so far this is going to be that replacement I’ve been looking for. This tea is so good. Not too grassy and not at all astringent. It’s crisp and sweet yet vegetal and has a great mouthfeel.
I did this tea at 175 instead and once I took a sip...it brought me right back to an old Japanese restaurant i used to go to in Toronto that had a lovely Sencha based Genmaicha that they served. So many good memories it brought back. Definitely got those grassy notes that I just love in my green teas
My go - to green. Love it! Will nearly always take sencha over anything else... still sometimes it's nice to change it up - but Sencha remains my #1 !
I wasn't super satisfied with the regular sencha tea, so I tired this one and it is absolutely perfect. I will definitely be buying more.
It’s good but definitely overrated. It wasn’t very flavorful
This is a very solid sencha, which we use as our everyday green tea. (although it probably does not deserve the ratings it gets in the 90's - that is an example of grade inflation) It is exactly what its name means a high quality example of a common grade Japanese green tea.
This is hands down the best bulk Sencha I have found!
I don't see how nice everyone is being about this tea.
#1 It's super hard to brew, a few seconds too much and it is ruined, super bitter. A few too many pieces of leaf and its ruined, super bitter. A little too much water and its ruined. Its the most picky tea I have ever purchased.
#2 Even on it's best day it's just bland and bitter, like drinking heated bitter-water with a smallest hint of tea somewhere in there I guess.
I'm pushing through it because I don't like to waste tea but I'm telling you its brutal, I have wanted to trash the rest of it almost every time I make a cup.
I have had to mix it with coco-mint tea to be able to mask the bitterness. Will not buy again, no way.
I am getting used to making it. Very delicate, and not used to the prep. But I use it after meditation.
While I liked the Sencha...I found it has a little too much of a grassy tea. This is still good, and I'll never turn down a cup, but I found after two cups that I much prefer Gyokuro over Sencha. I'd be curious if anyone else felt the same.
Light and grassy. I enjoyed it, but it feels more delicate than greens I'm accustomed to. I've read that Japanese greens are very sensitive to brewing temperature and time and this was no exception. At 2 mins / 170~F it was great, but once I accidentally brewed it for 2:40 at 175~F and it was bitter and unpalatable. Definitely worth a try if you like a light Japanese green tea.
very good sencha, perhaps not as wonderful as gift I received of sencha from Japan, but this is more accessible
I tried this as part of a quest to find a tea similar to one I purchased a year or so ago from another shop. It said it was a mixture of Sencha and Dragonwell, so I decided to try Adagio's Dragonwell and both of Adagio's Sencha varieties.
Sencha Premier was quite good, but not quite the flavor I was looking for. It was very delicately sweet and grassy, with a slightly stronger flavor as it cooled. I enjoyed its grassiness but wished it were a bit stronger.
Very nice flavor! My sister's favorite! Japanese teas are the best! ordering it again
Exquisitely flavored and most satisfying! Gave it as a gift to a friend, enjoyed it myself.
If forced to choose only one tea for use going forward, this would be the one. Seems to be chock full of health benefits.
Deliciously grassy and smooth. Not bitter at all (unless yo oversteep). Will be coming back to this one quite a bit!
sencha premier. this is good tea. drinking it now
This is a perfect grassy green tea without being too strong.
I really liked this sencha, but personally I can't taste the difference between this one and the regular sencha
A really great tea ! You can not beat the price for a pound, for such a good tea, would recommend to anyone that likes sencha, or green tea in general.
Maybe I should have brewed this longer, but it was mostly boring. Not terrible, but not exciting either.
This Sencha is delicious, but it is frustrating to be forced into buying it because Adagio has been out of stock of the large size of Sencha Overture for months and months.
I'm not an expert on teas, so I'm trying different types and compare them based on my preference of taste. This tea is the one I least preferred. I don't know if it was because its was from Japan instead of China, but I did not like the taste.
I love this tea! It's very mild and light. I like to drink it on warmer, spring days. Smells wonderful, too.
One of my favorite green teas that holds up to resteeping okay.
Also a good tea. Do not use too many leaves per glas
Tastey green tea that truely tastes green. If that makes sense.
This is a decent sencha...don't even waste your time with the sencha overture. I'd say this sencha is the bare minimum quality of what I would drink. It has the light, sweet, crisp notes of a good tea without being astringent or bitter, but it lacks the complexity of other, better senchas that I've had. It's not bad, but for the price I think I'll keep looking.
Definitely enjoyed this tea, but comparing the Premier and Overture side to side, Overture is the winner in my book.
One of my favorites. Such a wonderful grassy flavor!
I'm fairly new to the loose tea gig but I dove straight into the green teas. This is my least favorite tea thus far, but did not want to give it a bad rating as I could see myself possibly developing a taste for this tea.
This is a superior green tea. The flavor is bold enough to last through more than one brewing, but never harsh.
4-2017 Continues to be my favorite tea. Smooth, fresh green flavor that is just unbeatable. I drink it every day!
Beautiful aromatic green flavor. Refreshing sweetness that awakens, refreshes or relaxes! Always seems to fit the bill for what I need. Smooth aftertaste cup after cup.
Very earthy but nice when I am not wanting a sweeter tea
Very good even when steeped for long periods of time. Smooth.
This tea is grassy and rather bold (in my opinion) in taste but has a light mouth feel.
Great earthy flavor, grassy. One of my favorite teas.
MY FAVORITE GREEN! I TRIED THE GEMCHA FROM TEAVANA, AND I WILL ALWAYS BUY THIS ONE FROM NOW ON.
I wish I could afford to make this an everyday tea! One of the top tier Sencha options out there.
I liked this tea. It's got a strong flavor, but is smooth and not too bitter.