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Gyokuro Yamashiro from DAVIDsTEA
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My 100th tasting note! How exciting.
I decided to celebrate with this tea as I have been very interested in it since I started drinking tea. I got caught up in oolongs though and got swept away from this beautiful green tea.

I did 4g of tea per 4 oz, with water temperature around 60ish, for 1.5 minutes. It smells incredibly sweet and vegetal. YUM. Beautiful color to the liquor too – like sunshine in a cup (with a slight green tinge). Oh yummy. The taste is thick and vegetal with some bright sparkly tastes at the end of the sip that I cannot place. Perhaps I am sensing some nuttiness too. Really nice sweetness to round out the vegetal flavours too. I’m giddy
I am not quite getting the butteriness, but maybe that is because I brewed it at a lower temperature? All the websites I looked at recommended 50-60C for water temperature so I wanted to stick to that.
Overall, this tea is nice. I will play with the steeping parameters a bit more before I’m dead set on the rating.. but currently I’ll put it at 85 due to the price and the fact that I am not blown away in buttery lovely flavours (.. perhaps I was looking for something more astounding like a lovely TGY type flavour intensity).

Edit: The 3rd steep is buttery veggies! Or creamed asparagus. Either way. YUM!

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Comments

tigress_al
tigress_al 2012-07-27 16:21:54 -0400

Congrats on your 100! It doesn’t take long hey!

Hesper June
Hesper June 2012-07-27 16:31:55 -0400

Happy 100! Slowly making my way there:)

Invader Zim
Invader Zim 2012-07-27 16:51:03 -0400

Congrats on 100!

ScottTeaMan
ScottTeaMan 2012-07-27 18:41:41 -0400

Congrats & Joy on your 100th review!! :)) This Gyokuro seems like the perfect choice. :D

Alphakitty
Alphakitty 2012-07-27 19:52:08 -0400

Congrats on 100 notes!

Kittenna
Kittenna 2012-07-28 01:59:07 -0400

Congrats on making it to 100!! May the next 100 be even more enjoyable :D

Lynne-tea
Lynne-tea 2012-08-02 19:15:10 -0400

Thank you all so much! Sorry for the late reply – I went on an awesome adventure to Tofino to surf. =)

Incendiare
Incendiare 2012-08-07 16:22:53 -0400

Belated congratulations!

Lynne-tea
Lynne-tea 2012-08-08 15:33:27 -0400

Thank you Incendiare! I hope you got to check out the VEMF last weekend in Victoria =)

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I am very excited to delve into as many different types of tea as possible… so this should be interesting. I am really looking forwards to tasting all the wide array of flavours that can come from pure tea leaves.

Currently, I am having a love affair with oolongs. Mostly green, though I am stretching out into more oxidized oolongs. Black teas are also in my love fest as they can be so surprising sometimes (I used to drink bagged red rose x.x)
I would really love to get to know green tea a lot more and white tea.. all tea to be honest. I want to know them all.

Tea rating system:

0-50: Do people actually enjoy this?
50-60: Slight improvement, not recommendable.
60-70: Alright, though easily forgettable.
70-80: Good flavour, though not a ‘go to’ tea.
80-90: Great tea – complex and memorable.
90-100: Extremely delicious and complex teas that leave me craving more.

On top of tea, I have a love for music. Generally all music, though I am partial to indie rock/folk/pop/electronic. Follow me if you also enjoy indie music and would like to trade some artists!

I’m always open to new tea and music suggestions. Happy tea drinking to you all.

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Vancouver Island

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