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“Another one from Sazen tea for Christmas. First Marukyu Koyamaen tea I’ve tried and I’m quite impressed. This is the most unique sencha I’ve tried, and tastes more like gyokuro than most senchas....” Read full tasting note
Competed at the All-Japan Tea Competitive Exhibition
Typical Ryokucha (green tea). This tea has a characteristic fresh aroma and pleasant moderately bitter taste.
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Another one from Sazen tea for Christmas. First Marukyu Koyamaen tea I’ve tried and I’m quite impressed. This is the most unique sencha I’ve tried, and tastes more like gyokuro than most senchas. It has less umami and more vegetal notes than gyokuro, but is similarly rich.
No bitterness or astringency brewed at 60 C. I brewed the tea side-by-side with water from my electric kettle and my new cast iron tetsubin. The tetsubin-brewed sencha had a very pleasant mild sweetness that the other brew lacked. It also had the slightly off aftertaste removed in the tetsubin version. The only drawback was a slight loss in complexity of the tesubin version. Regardless, this is the most “pure” sencha I’ve tried. Can’t reallly describe it otherwise. Lasted 4-5 infusions.
I love this tea and will enjoy drinking the rest of it quite a bit. However, I would not purchase it again for the price ($0.88/g).
Location: Uji, Kyoto
Dry leaf: Grass, umami
Wet leaf: Grass, umami, egg
Flavors: Grass, umami, egg, vegetal
Flavors: Egg, Grass, Umami, Vegetal
