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“It’s not often I actually sit down and enjoy a sencha. I’m more of a Chinese green tea sort of gal and tend to find sencha too potent and crisp for my taste buds. If I’m drinking it, it’ll usually...” Read full tasting note
This tea is from Isa Bay in Mie Prefecture, Japan, which has 800 years of history for producing high quality tea. This needle like thin cylindrical tea brews up to a delicate yellowish green liquor that is both grassy sweet and lively astringent. Particularly rich in vitamin C, this tea is low in theophylline (a stimulant) and is excellent alone or with meals.
This is the most popular tea in Japan, and represents about 80 percent of the tea produced in Japan. The flavour depends upon the season and place where it is produced, but it is considered that the most delicious sencha is that from the first flush of the year.
Sencha green tea is made without grinding the tea leaves. It is first slightly steamed to prevent oxidization of the leaves. Then, the leaves are rolled, shaped, and dried. This step creates the customary thin cylindrical shape of the tea. The leaf gets a very fine and fragile structure. Finally, after drying, the leaves are fried to aid in their preservation and to add flavour.
Sencha in Japan is drunk hot in the cooler months and usually chilled in the summer months.
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It’s not often I actually sit down and enjoy a sencha. I’m more of a Chinese green tea sort of gal and tend to find sencha too potent and crisp for my taste buds. If I’m drinking it, it’ll usually be cold brewed! Perhaps it’s my change in environment, but the crisp autumn days in Vancouver made this tea delicious. The aroma is filled with fresh grassy scents, whilst the taste is with sweet, zingy limes and a slightly toasted finish.
Enjoyed: Sat on a beach, in the sun of a crisp autumn afternoon, wrapped in a knit jumper and munching salty roasted chickpeas.
For more on tea: www.TastetheTea.co.uk
Flavors: Citrus Zest, Freshly Cut Grass, Grass, Lemon Zest, Lime
