★★★★☆
This had a very down to earth taste. Every cup captured a moment, outside playing during a spring morning and the smell of freshly mowed grass.
Tightly rolled fuzzy buds give a soft, fruity sweetness enfolded by a rich, smoky note similar to gunpowder, but more complex and crisp.
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This had a very down to earth taste. Every cup captured a moment, outside playing during a spring morning and the smell of freshly mowed grass.
Perfect green tea for people who don't like green tea! Very smooth and mellow, not grassy tasting.
Not too sure how I feel about sleeping dragon. It's a bit softer than gunpowder, but still a little rough for me. I may have steeped it too long. the taste was a bit over powering.
I don't know what it is, but I just really can't get into green tea it seems. The taste is just so mild, its like I'm not getting enough. Its not bad, what taste I'm getting is pretty nice, but I suppose I'm just always going to prefer the bolder, fuller teas.
A bit silly, but I love how the leaves look in this one, both dry and steeped.
good green tea, no grassy flavor, nice balance, good color. new favorite green tea
Delightfully light-tasting and fresh! This is the best green tea I've had since visiting Japan. My son, who usually avoids green tea, polished off this pot before I could pour myself seconds. As with all green teas, this is best only on the first steeping - second or third uses will taste bitter.
Nice simple green tea. Makes a great mixer with fruit flavors.
I have tried green teas in the past and did not like them, but decided to give a good quality green tea a try when I was offered a free sample with my first order. I still do not enjoy green tea, but that does not speak to the quality of the tea. I can tell from the appearance and aroma of the leaves that it is miles above what I have tried before.
A little bit reminiscent of gunpowder, but with a strong floral note where gunpowder is mild and smoky. Not bad at all, though not a favorite.
May have steeped too long, but much preferred with sugar or honey since somewhat bitter.
I really like this one. Kind of floral with a smokey flavor to it.
Super tasty tea! Kind of a softer flavor than a lot of green teas, and almost smoky in character.
I'm not the biggest green tea fan, but I love this tea! I like to mix it with herbal teas. It's also really cool to watch brew and uncurl :)
This is nice, but not different enough from gunpowder for me to keep buying it when I've got plenty of the former around.
While not the biggest fan of green tea, I did like this one quite a bit. I decided to get it as a sample out of curiosity, and it does help calm down after a busy day. I don't see it as my favorite, but it's welcome to be there for when I want something different.
It is a very good standard tea, simple but clean..
I have a Chinese friend from the Fujian province who boasted about the quality of the green tea from the area. Since I drink so much tea, she decided to bring me some for my own evaluation on her last trip there. On the first cup I thought it was a good tea but after subsequent pots of this tea, I thought it was amazing. This tea on the other hand, doesn't even come close. It's very light and almost has a minty taste to it. My advice: skip this specific tea but buy others from Fujian.
It has a very 'planty' flavor and is very light. I added a little but of sugar and it was perfect.
I got this tea on a whim, I'm not usually a green tea fan. However, this tea is amazing! I had some before bed, and it was a lovely ending to my day.
I bought this tea as a gift for my dad. He quite likes it as does my mom which was surprising. I have not tried it, but I have been told it tastes like a light gunpowder tea.
I'm new to tea and don't know what everyone means by 'smoky' but to me this tea is very neutral with no unpleasant aftertaste or bitterness. I noticed no grassy taste either as with some of the Sencha's. I will buy it again as my wife likes it and I don't mind it.
A little strong for a beginner green tea drinker like myself, but it was a soothing pick me up at work. Its a little more earthy than what I am used to... in a good way.
Easy to scorch since it's a green tea. Needed to add a bit of sugar to it but green tea isn't my thing.
A lovely, lovely gunpowder-type tea! I very much enjoy it as a late morning tea. It's very mild, and doesn't over steep easily.
Very flavorful. Exactly what I'm looking for in a green tea.
My go-to tea when I want something simple and green.
A very nicely smoky green tea, with a sweet and almost buttery golden underlying flavor. Wonderful hot or iced.
I was so excited when this tea came. Before steeping, I held in my hand a few of the leaves, which really do look like little sleeping dragons. The hot water wakes them, of course, and they unfurl to steep a wonderful cup.
Classic green tea taste!! If you are looking for a simple great tasting green tea than this is it!! (:
One of my top 3 green teas, top 5 overall! More complex than Gunpowder, even though they are pretty similar.
Both are 5/5 teas, but I think the Sleeping Dragon edges it out.
This is a very wonderful tea that quite exemplifies the taste of amazing tea.
A nice, mellow alternative to gunpowder with a slight sweetness to it. Mind your steeping time/temp with this one if you're not keen on the smoky kick of gunpowder. it tastes pretty much the same when over-steeped.
I found this tea to be just OK- I usually prefer a blend of teas, so I may mix this in with something else to give it another shot.
Nice aroma full of cut field. Grassy taste but not overwhelming. Round feel with just a touch of smokey bite on yhe back of the tongue.
This is not a bad green tea, just too smokey for my taste.
Such a delicious tea. So earthy. Great to sip over conversation.
I really loved this tea, which I got as a free sample from adagio. It did get a bit bitter from over steeping but it wasn't bad. However, I do prefer Gunpowder to this.
This seemed bold to me. Not the bad type of bold but really really tasty.
I agree with a lot of people that it's not a strong tea, and I love that about Sleeping Dragon. It's so mellow, and nice to drink.
I don't think I really liked this one as much mainly because I'm not a huge fan of green tea.
Soft, gunpowdery smokiness without such a sharp bite. It's great for when I want a simple pot of tea.
My husband's FAVORITE green - succulent, full-flavored, intensely grassy without being overwhelming.
Flavorful, and earthy- I loved the smoked quality of this tea, and the tang of the flavor.
Has a light, mellow flavor. The description is very accurate with this one.
This green tea taste similar to gunpowder except it has no mint and is milder its really good
Every green tea fan has their own preferred notes for unflavored, unsweetened greens. You're either a roasted fan, or a rice-flavored zealot, or a light-and-mellow devotee, or a vegetable-and-grassy person, etcetera, etcetera. I tend to lean toward roasted, rice-flavored, and/or light-and-mellow green teas rather than vegetable-and-grassy ones, and as such, Sleeping Dragon was a little too far on the lettuce side of things for me. Methinks a three-minute steep can cause grassy flavors to increase, however, so if you're in the ricey-roasted-mellow fanship too, shoot for a two-minute steep with this one. Interestingly, as it cooled off, the flavor became infinitely more pleasant. Just don't wake the lettuce dragon, man.
Nice green. Not vegetal or kelp like. Floral notes. Clean, crisp and refreshing. Very much like a very good Chinese Green Gunpowder tea, tastes identical.
Lightly smoky, mellow, and grassy/vegetal. Hint of sweetness. Okay, but nothing incredible.
I had really high expectations for this tea, but in the end it was just okay. It has a slightly smoky flavor that reminds me a bit of white monkey and a bit of gunpowder. I think gunpowder is the best of those three, but this one isn't bad - it's just not great, either.
I found this to be a pleasant cup of tea :) a good pick-me-up while studying for a big midterm in my case. It is nice and mild - I steeped it for 2 minutes initially as I don't like really strong green teas but ended up letting it steep for an extra minute because it was so mild. Good flavor! Will definitely be brewing it again.