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2 Tasting Notes

Gyokuro from Harney & Sons
100

All-time favorite tea.
Feel like Japanese royalty with this sensational drink, a jewel among green teas.
This is a beautiful, strikingly green tea with a shade-grown flavor, a lightly vegetal and full-bodied tea that leaves the palette fully satisfied. This is a refined, and hardly forgettable tea.
Highly recommended. This is the creme of the crop in Japanese teas.

Though caffeinated, the tea is remarkably zen-inspiring.

**If deciding between Gyokuro and Heavenly Gyokuro, the difference is minor. To save a few bucks, go with the standard gyokuro. It is no less superior, and will not disappoint if brewed well.

Sencha from Harney & Sons
92

Solid Japanese tea commonly served at Japanese restaurants.
vegetal
grassy
fresh
solid yellow-green
full-bodied
reccomended

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I drink green teas; namely those from Japan.
matcha iri genmaicha
sencha
bancha
and my favorite…gyokuro

Ask me about Japan, Japanese teas, or recommendations. I’ll be glad to learn more as well!

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Harney Teas