It’s time for another installment of Sunday Tea and Books, and Simple Loose Leaf is on the docket again.
I’ve had a few other sencha teas lately so it’s quite interesting to drink this one in comparison. The ones I tried before were rather savoury and marine/mineral in flavour. This one is much lighter and sweeter – buttery, slightly nutty, but not very savoury. In fact, it reminds me more of a Chinese green tea than a Japanese one, which is really interesting. I tend to like teas on the sweeter end of the spectrum anyway, so this is pretty good. The dry leaf was a light emerald green, but it was a little dusty and broken-up; despite this, the tea isn’t bitter or astringent at all. The colour of the brewed tea is a light yellow-green, like tender young shoots.
But which fictional character did it remind me of? Well, considering the new issue of “Saga” just came out, and I just finished reading volume 3 of the series, perhaps the choice is obvious: http://christinavasilevski.com/2014/05/sunday-tea-books-japanese-sencha-saga-green/
