This is a nice mellow tea that has almost a powdery mouthfeel. The color is a lovely deep green and the depth of flavor is really nice if oversteeped (which I always do with green teas. I’m sorry?). This tea is nice when you just want to relax. I take it with milk — but that’s just me. I think that the milk brings out some of the softer notes from this sencha, which is the only kind of sencha I can find in my town (in the International store, which is seriously the most fun store where I live). This tea is perfect in spring and autumn, especially when oversteeped and with milk.
2 Tasting Notes
Not the best green tea ever, but certainly one of my favorite Japanese green tea in tea bags. For loose leaf, I would recommend Hibiki-an green tea—but for tea bags for the office or travel, these are quite good and also convenient to use. The brewed tea is full flavored, because each tea bag is sealed in a foil packet for freshness and the tea is not whole leaves but very tiny broken leaves and green tea powder. So, overall, I recommend these for office and travel, but not necessarily if you are looking for something special to brew at home. (This review is for their small paper tea bags, not the larger nylon style tea bags).
