★★★★★
Great grassy flavor. This is my go to daily green tea.
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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Great grassy flavor. This is my go to daily green tea.
Good daily green tea with a nice grassy flavor. Also affordable compared to other green teas.
Love this tea! Great flavor and smells amazing definitely recommend!
This is one that you really need to make sure to not over brew. It tastes like veggie broth otherwise.
It taste grassy but that is the flavor I was expecting and going for. Love it.
Nice, slight;y grassy taste. has slight sour taste to it, but in a good way.
Impressive tea. Very pure and delicate. Refreshing flavor
I like pretty much anything that has a seaweed flavor to it, so this was a winner for me
This was a pleasant surprise. Great grassy seaweed flavor and is my second favorite next to gunpowder. I alternate between the two. It’s a great classic green
This tea is great, and reminds me of our time in Japan.
it tasted a lot like grass, which i guess is the point, but i wasn't enjoying it. if you like the grassy taste though, this one's for you
My new favorite green tea!! Soft, grassy notes of flavor.
Very toasty and vegetal, but I probably brewed this a bit too long (I m a chronic-over steeper), so it was a tad bitter. The scent makes me think of homemade vegetable broth, so I may save what I have for days I feel under the weather. A very lovely and calming cup of tea.
I order Sencha overture by the pound. It's very consistent and fresh. I steep it at a fairly high temperature (200 deg) in a strainer with 2 teaspoons/cup. It gives me a really nice strong cup. This Sencha is at a very good price point and the price/lb makes it an even better deal.
This is a delicious tea which provides me great focus and energy in the mornings.
I enjoyed this sencha. It was a refreshing grassy taste without any bitterness. The color is very good and I will make this an afternoon tea.
This is fantastic green tea with a first flavor all it's ownhis is a really great tea for an afternoon cup of enjoyment.
If money were no object i would drink this all the time.
Appearance: Pale yellowish green with a small smattering of tiny leaves floating on the surface.
Aroma: Peach, grass, and steamed spinach. Very similar on second steeping, with dry hay muting the vegetal.
Taste: Grass and mild astringency on the tip of the tongue, adding spinach/kale on swallow, lingering in the aftertaste. Same flavor but muted on second steeping, no astringency remaining.
Mouthfeel: Medium in the mouth and slightly oily feel coats the mouth after swallow. Oily feel effectively gone on second steeping.
Overall: A vegetal green tea that is stronger and thicker than I was expecting for the lower brew temp and time. Will likely include in my green tea rotation and makes me want to try the secha premier as well.
Ok but did not like it as much as premier variety.
A beauitifully complex and airomatic sencha with naturally fruity undertones
Grassy, earthy taste that will appeal to anyone who likes truly green tea. Tastes like a spring day.
This teas has a nice sweet vegetable taste but easy to get bitter.
This tea steeped well and has good flavor. One of my favorite green teas.
Oh man, this tea *tastes* expensive, but boy was it good. Unfortunately, I don t make enough money to add it to my regular stock, but the sample was a treat!
This has become my every day green tea. Great tea for the price.
This is a great green tea. It has a bright green color,the smell reminds me of a fresh cut yard. Great hot or iced.
Smooth, brothy green flavor, I was worried because the smell had intense spinach going on, but the taste was more low key. I will try again in a while, I think my palate may have been tainted by having a minty tea prior.
Great tea, hot or cold. I like mine a little stronger, so I add a w e ll rounded teaspoon.
Pretty good, I realized that I like the Jasmine Pearls a little more than this style.
Pretty standard green tea, I think it does work well for re-steeps.
This is a light and sweet green tea. Keep the water temperature low and steep for less than two minutes. You can steep the leaves at least twice.
Not my cup of tea!
I ve tried it several times before I decided to write a review, because i wanted to give this Tea a chance, but it just doesn t get any better for me. It s not the grassy notes, I actually enjoy grassy tea, but there is something to it that reminds me of the smell of cat urine. I m so sorry, this is truly the only thing I can compare it to. I don t want to insult anyone, it is just my taste-buds. :(
This is a delicious, grassy green tea. Lightly sweet and comforting. Be careful of over-steeping this one, though, as it can get especially bitter.
This is a lovely mild green tea, it's exactly what I think of when I picture a straightforward green. It's also perfect for adding a touch of honey for a sore throat!
This is my absolute favorite green tea! And so much better than I can find at the store.
My new favorite green tea: it's got that classic, slightly grassy green tea taste, plus a delightful nuttiness. This tastes like the platonic ideal of green tea.
I had been drinking the gunpowder green and this is definitely a step up. It is more vegetal and grassy, but for being such a light tea it packs some flavor. The aroma is wonderful and calming, and the mouth feel is pretty smooth.
This is my new favorite green tea. I received a one-cup sample of it as part of this week s CommuniTea, and before I had even finished the cup, had already placed an order for more. It is refreshing, sweet in its own way, vegetal, perfect for an everyday green tea, which I m sure this one will become.
Decent sencha not the best iv had but I honestly liked this one better then the premier and it costs less to boot
This served as a really good reminder of how much I enjoy green tea. Relatively mild but still has a nice flavor, would most likely also be delicious iced. A very solid tea.
I love sencha teas. This one's a great every day type tea, mellow and vegetal without the bitterness some green teas get. Rebrewed wonderfully as well!
I’m not sure what I think about this tea. It hardly has any taste at all. I added a honey stick and it tasted a little bit better. I might just be tasting the honey. I really need to try this tea again but I’m not going to buy anymore of it.
This is one of my staple daily teas! It's tasty even when it cools off.
I typically don't gravitate towards straight green teas. With that being said I actually really enjoyed this one. The tea is very light with a fresh green grassy flavor. This was delicate but still had a touch of sweetness to me which complimented the fresh green flavors nicely. This was a very pleasant green tea.
Just a basic green tea nothing special to me. I wish they picked something more flavorful
Left a lot of bits in my mug even with a fine mesh infuser. Mild flavor, just really not my style.
Good, for a green tea. This tea was full of static cling, and difficult to pour into my steeping cup... but when i did it brewed a light cup of green tea. Full of all the characteristic 'green' attributes. Grassy, vegetal, yet pleasant.
The dry leaf has the fragrance of grass and watermelon rind, but the liquor has aromas of seaweed. There is a sweetness that lingers on my tongue well after sipping. Great tea for a spring day.
I don't usually go for the green stuff but that first sip changed everything I thought I knew about my taste in tea and the last sip left me craving more.