Adventaggedon Day 4: Tea 1/7
Gongfu!
Today had a lot of green teas including this Sencha which is, across all the advents I’m doing, the one tea in particular I’ve been dreading seeing…
Trying to look on the silver lining, it did allow me to steep it up in a shiboridashi that I really like that I feel is very underutilized in my teaware collection since it’s really best suited for straight green teas – my least consumed tea type. It was also a pretty mild sencha all things considered. Definitely a lot of those oceanic and marine notes and a strong grassy taste, which are the things I shy away from. However, there was also a sort of starchy green/underripe banana note that I found interesting and I paired the session overall with some pomegranate which added a nice complimenting bright red fruit sweetness as well.
So I definitely feel like I made the best out of a tea I wasn’t thrilled to be drinking.
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TWXAdVKok&ab_channel=JulianMoon