★★★★☆
Very crisp and light taste, more floral than anything. I didn't get a sense of the smokiness that was described. Just a simple green tea, nothing too special.
Fine twisted young leaf that resembles a chun mee style but interspersed with silvery down-covered buds.
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Very crisp and light taste, more floral than anything. I didn't get a sense of the smokiness that was described. Just a simple green tea, nothing too special.
Very good, but I was allergic to it so I only had one cup. Not too bitter though, and brewed nicely.
This is a very light and mild green tea. It's smooth and buttery with a slightly sweet vegetal flavor. I get hints of green grapes in the aroma. It can get bitter quickly when oversteeped, but around 2 minutes at 175 results in a pleasant light astringency with no bitterness. It was still good after 2-3 infusions for me. Very easy to drink and enjoyable any time of day, it's just a much lighter flavor than I was expecting and I didn't get any smoky notes from it.
Really enjoy the subtle flavor of this variety. I tend to brew my green tea a little milder and this variety is naturally less grassy. It’s pretty too.
Light, delicate cup of green tea, steeped at 165F x 3 min. Well, three cups, really, as it stood up to multiple infusions--each with slightly different flavor profiles. MIld vegetal taste, without any grassyness or bitterness. Sweetened two cups with honey, but a third cup was good on its own. Nothing stands out special about the tea, but I think that is why I liked it! A pleasant sip that would please any green-tea lover.
I joined CommuniTEA because this is a very interesting group and I would like to explore various teas. It turns out perhaps I’m not a fan of straight green tea? Upon steeping this reminded me of the water left from a can of green beans. Not appetizing as an unsweetened tea for me. Adding just a touch of sugar improves the taste significantly but I feel that adding more than a pinch of any sweetener may overpower the tea completely and turn it into a weak sugar-water. As this cools I’m noting it becomes slightly bitter and reminds me more of grass clippings and at that point it’s no longer enjoyable in my opinion. Still I did drink quite a lot more than I anticipated because the tea itself is certainly light.
Not for me. Too much of a grassy taste for my likes.
I didn't care for this one, not because it's bad, but because it's boring. It's plain green tea.
It's a pretty good green tea, and I say that as someone who doesn't usually reach for green teas. It's light, slightly floral and maybe a little bit grassy.
This was a good green tea. I thought it tasted nice hot and cold. I brewed mine in a tea pot so some of the cups I had brewed longer than recommend. Even though some of the cups I had brewed longer, I didn't feel like the tea became bitter.
A lovely light and bright green tea. And I'm not usually a fan of them. This one won me over!
I enjoyed this tea, which was a surprise as I don’t typically like green tea. It was very light. I believe this one could be a good tea to blend with other subtle floral or citrus flavored teas.
The CommuniTea packet had a light sweet, straw scent. Once steeped and hot the scent & flavor was more green, grassy, and a bit astringent. I added sugar to help with the astringency. I find I preferred it once it cooled a bit - it went from being grassy to more buttery.
The second steep was only a tad lighter, and it wasn't as astringent so I didn't need to add as much sugar.
Steeped (1) 180F 3min, (2) 180F 2min
Pretty good but definitely not my favorite green tea. It's worth a shot if you want to try all of the green teas, but get a sampler first.
I'm surprised to find out how affordable this tea is, because it smells wonderful in the packet and tastes great in the cup. I'm getting big hits of buttered greens and veggie broth, with a hint of mineral and not a whole lot of smoke. The finish is a bit astringent, but not in a bitter way; just in a 'my mouth is a bit dry after drinking' way. There's a sample in my cart for my next order, and Mr. Fusion and I are going to have a three-way tea-off between this, gunpowder, and kukicha to determine which ones are going to be our go-to greens.(2m15s/1m30s @ 165 F, no additions)
A very delicate tea. There was a nuttiness to the flavor profile with subtle smokiness in the background. It would work as a good introduction to green tea.
I liked this tea. Not my top favorite green, but I think it's telling that I drank it down more quickly than I realized! The dry tea had a fresh, slightly sweet smell with a light vegetal aroma. The aroma once brewed was surprisingly a bit brothy, vaguely like a sencha. The flavor had a slight toastiness and a buttery greens vegetal note with a sweet fresh grass type flavor underneath, without being what I would call grassy. Maybe that's the floral bit? The finish was a combo of a pleasant but mild astringency, a light mineral quality and a dry white wine -esque finish. The second cup was similar, but a bit smoother, less astringent. I drank this without anything added. Silver sprout reminded me a little bit of gunpowder, but I'm surprised that I think I prefer silver sprout for that type of mood. Overall, a gentle and soothing cup. I felt like I was drinking what I didn't realize I needed today. (3 mins @ 180º)
A nice mellow tea. The smokey floral tone allow this tea to stand out from other similar teas.
This is an old favorite, one I snag every order if nothing else catches my eye in the 'free sample for posting on Facebook' incentive. (More tea for telling people what they already know? Okaydokay!)
This is a very light green tea. No one is going to choke on the vegetal taste here. It has a lightly smoked note on the back end, but it's not the smoke of an American BBQ or liquid smoke, it's the smoke of an Icelandic rye bread oven, or the smoke of a piece of fish in a sushi restaurant. In other words, it's not a smoke to linger or paint your tongue, it's just a smooth, buttery depth on the finish, coming after a bright, grassy, almost spinach-y initial taste.
While it is a quite floral tea when smelling it freshly steeped, it's not one where the smell matches what you taste. I'll leave it to you to decide if that'd a good thing.
This is also a rare tea where I steep exactly to Adagio instructions: 180F, 3 minutes. That said, it can go up to a minute on either side without actually drastically changing taste, so it's nice if you can't hover precisely over the teapot. I generally find I can get one to two additional infusions out of the leaves, adding an extra minute of steeping time per infusion.
Overall, a very good, versatile tea to have on hand, and excellent if you want to serve it to folks who've tried stronger green teas and shy away from them.
CommuniTEA keeps making me think that maybe I don’t hate green tea. This was a nice light tea, without a lot of the grassy, fishy taste that I associate with green teas. It had some honey and floral hints to it, which were brought forward with a small amount of sugar. A second steep proved more “green,” but was still tasty.
A little more earthy than I sometimes like, but I might have overstepped it.
Adagio’s description for silver sprout is accurate. My CommuniTEA packet is quite subtle and light, smooth and a bit earthy, with a hint of grape if you search for it. It’s less earthy than some of my other green teas so I’m tempted to buy a full size for when I want something light. It wasn’t very special when resteeped, I believe the smokiness came out a bit more though. It was great without anything added.
This is a nice mild-flavored green tea. Perfect with nothing added. Second steep was similar to the first. I wasn’t careful with temperature and still didn’t find it to be very bitter. I just waited a few minutes after the water was boiled before pouring it over the leaves. I do need to get a kettle with temperature settings though to taste teas at their optimal temperature!
This is a soft, mellow green tea without too much grassiness or bitterness. The full leaves unfurl to brew a light green tea that is still full of flavor.
Mild and gentle, this green tea was a simple wrap of comfort. I’m still not sure how I feel about green teas as a choice, but the CommuniTea is helping me expand my horizons!i did enjoy drinking it, but it left me wanting more. Brewed at 180 degrees for 4 minutes.
I’m working a triple today so my partner (a complete tea novice) had to make my cup in my stead, so my read might be the slightest bit off. I definitely tasted the smokiness and the butteriness was very present. It also had the faintest flourishes of a floral flavoring. Very enjoyable!
I'm not a fan of this tea. I don't really taste anything. And the taste I do get is algae, which I don't really like in my green teas. Too delicate for me. Tasted as part of The CommuniTea.
Warming, savory, and vegetal, just how I like my green teas. A nice yellow-green color, and almost a little salty to my tongue, in the faintest way possible.
Soothing to drink. While not the highest quality green, it makes a nice standard cup.
Brewed in gaiwan at 175F
Let me start by saying that there was a ton of small particles in my packet. Usually the initial rinse will rid the debris for subsequent brews, but it just kept coming. This tea looked liked someone dumped out a teabag, threw in a few pieces of whole leaf, and then said 'there, done'. If you don't brew using a fillable bag or a fine mesh strainer, good luck.
Moving on... The smell is vegetal but lightly so. I had hopes that this would work well being brewed in my mini gaiwan. I'm not really getting the complexity as stated in the description. The butteriness is every so subtly there, but at least it actually exists unlike the supposed smoky quality; the smokiness is neither there in flavor nor scent. This flavor isn't terrible, but it isn't what I've come to expect from Adagio.
The big twisty leaves of this tea smell sweet and fruity. I love green teas, though I can't always handle ones with extreme fishy/grassy flavors. Luckily, silver sprout is delicate and tasty.
A 3 minute steep makes a light yellow tea that is beautifully clear. It tastes similar to jasmine, exquisitely floral and light on the palate. There's a very small amount of grassiness that doesn't distract or impede. I don't really taste any of the smoke that Adagio notes, so this is a sweet and pleasant cup.
A second steep at 4 minutes brews up tasting similarly, so this is also an economical tea. I think it'd also make a deliciously refreshing iced tea in the warmer months.
This tea had a very delicate , soft flavor. It didn't seem overly grassy tasting. It's nice plain but a very little bit of sugar does enhance the delicate flavor.
So smooth and light, with a little bit of that grassy taste I love.
It smells very nice, floral and sweet. It doesn’t have the grassiness of most green teas. I steeped it just below 3 minutes at 180 degrees. Slight astringency at the end but not bitter. I added a touch of sugar but overall a great cup of tea.
Canned spinach. The garbage that Popeye ate (fresh spinach is good if you cook it yourself, but canned stuff isn't edible). That's the aroma upon opening today's 'CommuniTea' packet. The aroma changed to grass clippings once the dry tea was added to water. As expected, the flavor was also reminiscent of going out and munching on your lawn, but not as bad as most green teas. Still, yuck. I will not be buying this one.
It's very tasty, probably 'buttery' is the best description, but it's also very subtle. Some other flavors in play too, but none that I can accurately discern.
Not usually a green tea person I found this quite pleasant and very light. Not as floral as most green teas which is probably why I liked it so much.
Probably not my favorite of the plain green teas, but an enjoyable cup. The dry tea had a pleasant grassy scent, and once brewed there is still a hint of fresh cut grass in the aroma of the tea. Flavors are mild, with the grassiness coming forward more as the tea cools. Has a good bit of astringency that lingers on the tongue but I noted no bitterness.
This tea tasted more like a white tea than a green tea to me - nice and smooth, light without grassy notes, lovely to re-brew. It's a delicate one - with a temp just a bit too high (190) it lost its smoothness and tasted too vegetal. When I first brewed it, I accidentally used the same strainer as I used for a flavored tea yesterday. Even though I had rinsed out the strainer, the tea took up all that flavor and I had to completely try over. And when I lazily re-brewed using tap water instead of filtered mineral water (gasp!) the tea lost all of its taste. Any shortcut seems to ruin it, and even at my best brewing I seem to miss some of the flavors that are supposed to be there. So I would say this isn't a tea for beginners, unless you don't mind ruining a few batches or trying to salvage the taste with honey.
Part of the January 2021 CommuniTEA box. Very mild in flavor - I used rock sugar in place of my stevia sweetener so that it wouldn’t be overpowered. Usually I don’t care for a smoky tea, but this was very light and bright.
This a pretty nice green tea. Green tea is always my go-to, but this one is a little on the light side to be a favorite. I think it would be nice mixed with a little mint or some other additional taste to boost the flavor a bit.
I'm normally a Huge fan of green tea, but this one is a bit too simple for my taste with a buttery finish. While drinking it I'm tempted to eat biscuits which makes this tea great for almost any time of day and for blending.
This is just ok for me. It's very mild...almost too mild. Possibly a good starter if you are new to green tea.
I'm a really big fan of this type of green tea. It's a mild and buttery grass green, and the tannic bitterness reminds me of green grape skin more than the smokiness that gunpowder green has. This is very easy to drink, light, fresh, and very mellow. I tend to prefer this after a meal, but it's nice as an early morning sip as well.
2.5 mins at 175F
Lovely green tea. I was worried about the spinach-like smell, but the leaves brewed into a delightful tea.
This is a really good fresh spinach type green tea. I don't taste any of the smokiness others have reported, but this smooth, buttery, light spinach flavors is one of my favorites for green tea. Lighter than a bi lo chun but not as oily as a white silver needle. I really enjoyed this!
The look and smell of the leaves is very nice. After brewing... the flavor is pleasant but extremely, extremely subtle. To the point where I really have to focus to 'taste' it because if I drink too quick it'll taste like water. (3 mins at 180)
Normally I really enjoy green teas. They are pleasant and grassy. But this tea is just like drinking very bitter spinach water to me. I really don't mind bitter teas most of the time, but this one seems excessively bitter, and I'm not picking up any pleasant smoky or buttery flavors or undertones like other people are describing.
There is a sweet smell when I open the bag. At taste, it is herbaceous with a touch of sweetness and butter. The texture is smooth and soft. It's the kind of green tea that I like to drink all the time.
Tried with CommuniTEA. A delightful sunny green tea! The fruit notes remind me of mangos! There's some nice mineral notes too, and the grassiness is at a mellow level.
For me this tea is very subtle. I get a some nice minerally nuances, a little smokiness, and then a mild nuttiness. As the tea cools, it reminds me clove honey. Wondering if my packet in the CommuniTEA today was from different batch than some of the others who noticed florals notes. I did not. Steeped for 2:40 mins at 185 degrees F.