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“Tealux Gyokuro Kokyo is a solid Japanese green, no doubt, but I found it to be a bit flat when compared directly side-by-side with Gyokuro Premier. The dark, roasted-spinach-like dried leaves were...” Read full tasting note
This premium tea blend consists of two of Kyoto Prefecture’s finest teas, Ujitawara Gyokuro and Wazuka Kabuse-Cha, or Shaded Tea.
The reason for blending these two teas is to produce a uniformly high quality offering that can be made available to worldwide tea enthusiasts at a stable and affordable price.
Kabuse-cha is grown in the same manner as Gyokuro tea, shaded under diffused sunlight to increase the chlorophyll content of the leaves. This produces an interesting, unique and much sought-after taste and aroma palate that is sweeter and richer than that of teas grown in full sunlight, as well as increasing its antioxidant qualities and nutritional content too.
Kabuse-Cha is shaded for around half the time of Gyokuro, around a week to ten days. Producing a flavor palate somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of Sencha and Gyokuro, Gyokuru Kokyu is a well-rounded tea with a slight algae flavor in the first notes, seguing into a light, lingering bitterness on the finish.
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Tealux Gyokuro Kokyo is a solid Japanese green, no doubt, but I found it to be a bit flat when compared directly side-by-side with Gyokuro Premier. The dark, roasted-spinach-like dried leaves were very similar in appearance, as was the brewed liquor—both were very pale green with tiny white particles floating about.
The texture of the Gyokuro Kokyu was not as smooth as that of Gyokuro Premier, and I felt that the blend was closer to sencha than to Gyokuro. It is a blend of two teas, basically Gyokoru has been cut with a less-expensive tea to produce a cost-effective Gyokuro. I am not convinced that the savings (only a $2 difference between 1 ounce of pure Gyokuro and 1 ounce of this blend) are worth this change…
Interestingly, I have encountered of late a couple of Gyokuro-esque senchas, so I’ll have to compare this blend side-by-side to see which I prefer!
