★★★★☆
Good starter sencha tea if you're new to it, especially since it's on the cheaper side of senchas. Nice seaweed and fresh vegetable flavor with hint of fruit if brewed right. Watch the brewing temperature and time to be safe!
Classic steamed tea from Shizuoka, Japan. Rich, brothy texture (when steeped as strongly as you might find in Japan), refreshing aroma. Rounded finish that coats the palate, sweet flavor reminiscent of tender steamed veggies and fresh seaweed.
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Good starter sencha tea if you're new to it, especially since it's on the cheaper side of senchas. Nice seaweed and fresh vegetable flavor with hint of fruit if brewed right. Watch the brewing temperature and time to be safe!
I enjoy Sencha in the late afternoon as a pick me up. This one has a pleasant mild,slightly grassy flavor
very good sencha, leaves are not broken, and it gives extra pleasure to make a great cup of tea. totally recommend if you on a green side of teas.
I absolutely adore this tea. My life is rarely quiet but sitting outside with a cup of green tea is one of my favorite pleasures in life. I'll take a moment. Hot or cold, this tea tastes divine.
I thought I didn’t like sencha. Turns out I just didn’t know what good sencha tasted like!
Grassy umami-ish and clean like most japanese green teas. I enjoyed this most cold brewed for an hour or so
My first time trying this tea. A really good addition to my tea collection. I'm interested to see the difference with the premier version in the future.
Sencha overture is a beautiful, healthy and lightly colored green tea that is both refreshing and enjoyable, hot or iced. I used a gong-fu style brewing to steep this tea. It was a relaxing experience at the end of a long week. Sencha overture is gentle & crisp with a clean flavor and a hint of spinach coming in at the end of each sip. I enjoyed this tea very much and will be adding it to my cart. Delicious and smooth! I was able to get layers of flavor for 3-4 good steeps. 45min-1 min each steep @165
Tried as a CommuniTEA sample. I'm not normally a green tea drinker but the ones I tend to like are very mild with a mineral flavor versus a vegetable flavor. I purposely made this tea weak but it was still too grassy for me.
I was not looking forward to a cup of hot spinach water, so I cold-brewed this overnight and was pleasantly surprised at the refreshing vegetal and mineral taste - not unlike having a V-8 without the tangy tomato. Felt like the healthiest thing I’ve ever put into my body! If you don’t like grassy green teas hot, try it cold for a different experience.
This is a vegetal tea, butbit has a nice sweetness to it that is pleasant and refreshing. This is a very 'green' tasting green tea, which I quite enjoyed with a slight bit of sweetener added to it!
A very, very green tea tasting green tea. For those who love that grassy, slightly astringent, and highly vegetal taste of green tea, this one is for you as it hits those marks without pause. Unfortunately, those are my least favourite aspects of any green tea, I didn't like this one at all.
Today's CommuniTEA is Sencha Overture (2-17-23). I have had this tea a few times before, and today I made it hot and plain. It is a very light tea and rather pleasant for a green tea. I normally do not like green teas, but I don't find this one to be grassy or gross at all. I would highly recommend this tea! I love it!
This tea is everything I don't like about green tea. SO grassy and 'green' tasting.
*update, brewed for less time this time and it was great again. Will get a 2nd brew. I'm going to have to order some so that we can have with Sushi. *I brewed as directed for 3 mins. This is a lovely green tea, could drink it all day. Would be great iced and possibly mixed with some fruity herbal teas.
Very interesting, never had a tea taste so…veggie.
Not bad but def strange
A bit grassy and vegetal if steeped hot and long; gong-fu steeping is recommended for this tea. 180 and cooler for short 15-20 second steeps in a kyusu is perfect.
Not my cup of tea - too much of a grassy flavor that overpowers any more subtle notes.
loved this! Not a green tea person myself but when I have it I prefer this mild sort of toasty clean flavor without bitterness. Steeped 2 min because I didn't want it to get bitter, could maybe? have gone 3. really nice mid-morning cup.
This is a solid green tea. Maybe a little bit on the light side for green tea but it’s pleasant without any sharp or overly grassy taste.
I 💚 this Green Tea Pa-Pow to the senses! Great Zen Cup to Vibe out with.. or to enjoy reseting your palate after tastebud tea overload or enjoy pairing with a savory meal. 'Tis Balancing, Butter-Creamy, Vegetal Green Heart Chakra Cool! Dig it. 😎
This is a very enjoyable green tea with a quick steep at a lower temperature. Perfect for drinking quickly and then re-steeping the leaves. Very vegetal taste.
Upon opening my CommuniTEA packet, I noticed aromas of seaweed. I steeped the tea for about 3 minutes. The taste of the tea isn’t overly vegetal, but do be careful of not over-steeping it as it can become very bitter. This tea has a grassy aftertaste as well. If you enjoy green tea, you would like this tea!
I don't mind the vegetal flavor of this tea but I don't think I would seek it out. I will try a second steep to see if the flavor changes at all. I did feel this was a flavorful green tea.
This is a very light, fresh tea. Green tea usually isn’t my thing, but I’d drink this one again
Leafy, vegetal, very clean. An excellent sencha with plenty of flavor. A delicious cup that is perfect if I want a straight green tea.
2/3/2021: Lovely green tea. I steeped at 150F x 2 min for the first steep, then 165F x 2 min for the second and third steeps. Each steep resulted in a pale greenish-yellow, very mild brothy tea that needed no sweetener (although I think it would pair well with honey). I didn't notice any bitterness, or the wet grass or seaweed flavors that others noted. This is one I would consider purchasing.
Updated 2/17/2023: Bumping my review up to 5 stars. This tea is brothy and buttery, with a hint of natural sweetness and a pleasant, savoury umami taste. Good for multiple resteeps and lingering over your tea.
CommunityTea sample review: This is NOT my cup of tea. I think it is an acquired taste. The description above is spot on...that's why I gave it 3 stars vs none. If that sounds good to you...go for it! 😊
Ok, it's not the most seaweed-y green tea I've had from Adagio. But it's up there. I still don't 'like' it, but it isn't making me gag. I won't dump out the cup, so that's saying something, but I will never voluntarily put this in my tea cupboard. It's a consummate example of a Japanese green tea, so for folks who love that style, this is for you.
I'm not going to rate a tea as 'bad'' because of personal taste. I do not like grassy or vegetable broth type tastes in tea...and it is a strong dislike. I love vegetables...I just don't want that taste in my tea cup. But I'm not going to rate a tea without actually trying it. So, I brewed this up... 2 minutes, 160F. My kettle doesn't have a 165 setting and I figured 175 was too hot. I could have let it sit, but figured the cooler temp might tone down the grass/seaweed notes. Nope. For me, this was a cup of grass water. I'm not sure why I have such an aversion (I'm also one of the lovelies with a hatred of cilantro deep in my DNA...so it might be related)...but the smell/taste of a plain green tea like this one is literally nauseating for me. Hard pass. But I did try it with good faith...in hopes that prior bad reactions were just because I brewed it wrong, bad tea or that I had grown out of it. Nope...still completely turned off. Strongly. It's not the tea -- it's me. So giving it middle of the road as I know that others love, love, love green tea and Adagio is great quality. This is just SO not to my taste. Moving on...
3/31/2022 -- Still a no.
2/17/2023 - Nope. Still Nope. I like my nori wrapping some lovely veggies, rice, and fish with a little soy sauce. Not in my tea cup. Just can't do this one. I did try it again...always the same reaction. I think I stop at 3 tries. This tea is lovely I am sure and top quality. I am glad that so many green tea lovers really like this tea! It is decidedly not my cup of tea, however. Lovely shade of green though!
This is a very “savory” tea and provides a nice contrast to something sweet. In my case, that was some honey cinnamon toast for breakfast. The texture is very “brothy” as stated in the description. There is a marine taste of seaweed, but I don’t find if overwhelmingly fishy. The rest is grassy and mildly sweet. I’m a big fan of those kinds of green teas, so I really liked this, but it might be a little overwhelming for novices.
This one was not the tea for me. It smelled grassy when I opened the packet which gave me hopes for matcha type flavors. But this was like drinking the water that I steamed my broccoli in with a touch of seaweed. If you like seaweed and veggie broth flavored things, this may be for you.
In the bag: Just the dark green tea leaves. Unlike other greens, the leaves here are thin like needles. Stems made it in with the leaves. Some breakdown occurred in transit resulting in leaf specs scattered about.
On the nose (pre-steep): As with most greens, we have vegetal, grassy notes. With this blend, however, the salty, musty tone is muted. Instead, the vibe is more of freshly cut lawn clippings.
On the nose (post-steep): As with most greens, steeping has removed the must from the scent. This continues to smell like freshly cut grass, with perhaps an undertone of freshly cut hay.
On the tongue: The classic vegetal flavor of greens. A bit of salt on the front of my tongue with pure grass flavors at the back. Buttery mouthfeel. An undertone of umami.
Opinion: An excellent representation of a pure green tea. I'm giving it five stars for the quality of its execution. Note, however, that I'm not a fan of naked greens and thus the flavors didn't please me. If I were ranking this blend on personal tastes, I would give it two stars.
Preparation: First steep 3 min, second steep 6 min. Both @ 175 ℉. No sweetener.
This sencha is smooth and slightly grassy, no taste of seaweed in my cup! It's just a nice green tea with no bitterness. I love that sencha blends so well with other green teas. Blend with one of your favorite flavored green teas and see how it gives it an extra boost.
One of my favorite green teas. I always steep it as many times as I can when I make it.
Day 6 Feburary 17, 2023 CT sencha overture
I steeped this as directed in approximately 11 oz of water and with 1.5 tsp of Adagio rock/tea sugar. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this tea. I don’t always like green teas. When I opened it all I smelled was grass. It wasn’t very strong, but it was all I could make out. I hope it doesn’t taste like grass alone.
While hot it had a sweet, strong, rather grassy taste, which wasn’t unpleasant. Unfortunately, the grassy-ness intensified the more the tea cooled and it had a very strong, to me, grassy aftertaste. It wasn’t terrible, but isn’t a favorite of mine. I think green tea lovers will really enjoy this blend, but it’s not for me. 3 stars.
UPDATED from 3/31/22: Very fresh, sweet green veggie aroma from the CommuniTEA packet, and the tea steeps into a cloudy pale chartreuse. The dark greenish leaves have opened up and appear like small green fish swimming in the tea. The aroma is greenish and seaweed-esque, and the flavor is very strong and astringent to my palate. It is full bodied and filling. On the second steep the astringency is reduced, and adding ¼ teaspoon sweetener (to 10 oz) smooths out the seaweed flavor. It has a clean finish, and is very refreshing. It certainly takes some getting used to, but with each sip, it tastes better. Good even as it cooled. The tea mellows as it steeps many, many times. I like it more than I did a year ago. ( 3 mins @ 165ºF + sweetener).
Taste like a classic buttery, sweet, very slightly mineraly, umami taste that is delicious and very savory.
Was an enjoyable green tea of the steamed and vegetable kind. I used two heaping teaspoons. Grassy.
This is my daily go to for green tea. To me it tastes very earthy without being heavy. I love the semi grassy flavor and the smoothness of this tea.
I really like this when steeped at 170 degrees for only 2 min. I get about 3 cups from using a tsp of tea. A fresh green flavor that I like
Really great tea. It was the first time I ordered. Will reorder again and again and again and again.
Good tea that I enjoy drinking, but definitely lighter in flavor compared to other sencha tea that I have enjoyed. I do appreciate that the taste lingers in the mouth (in a good way) after swallowing the tea.
This is my husbands all time favorite tea. Highly refreshing and is delicious iced or hot.
I got a free sample of this tea from a mystery box and liked it so much that I purchased more. It tastes great by itself or mixed with other green teas like hojicha.
My grandma loved it! Very refreshing and I’ve tried it myself, perfect to pair with anything sweet
A very nice seaweed-like flavor, but definitely don’t brew it too hot or steep it too long because it will become more like seaweed soup stock than tea 😅
I actually bought this to make cold brew with. It's perfect! Sweet and green and grassy with just a hint of pleasant bitterness, it's just what I need to get through the hot Floridian summer.
Absolutely delicious for a couple rinses. Very refreshing, smooth, and light. Tastes like a morning rain.
A lovely, earthy sencha that is both flavorful and smooth