A very nice Japanese green tea with a lightly sweet and vegetal taste. Works well iced and hot. Especially good when you make an Ice Steeped Gyokuro! add 2 and a half teaspoons of the tea to a 16 oz. tea-maker and fill up the rest of the tea-maker with ice. Pour water (175 degrees F.) over the ice so that some of it melts and there is a little room left in the tea-maker. Add as much more ice to the tea-maker as you can. Let it steep for 15 minutes. You can leave it in the fridge while it’s steeping :D All the ice keeps the tea from burning or going bitter