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Kagoshima Sencha Yutaka Midori Supreme from Umami-Chaya

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79/100

Kagoshima Sencha Yutaka Midori Supreme

Green Tea by Umami-Chaya

If you love complex ‘umami’ flavors, you will simply love this top drawer Yutaka Midori. A no holds barred deep steamed sencha with unequalled flavor, a very intoxicating aroma, and abundant green infusions. Deep steamed sencha from Kagoshima really doesn’t get much better than this. Only first flush yutakamidori young buds & leaves contained in the packet. An exceptional example of Yutaka Midori. Cultivated on the single estate in Kagoshima. Trying it only once might be difficult!

• First Flush 2009.
• Yutaka Midori Breed.
• Deep-Steamed (Fukamushi).
• Single estate cultivated in Kagoshima, Japan.

4 Tasting Notes

Ryan Crumley
57

Great value for the money. Hint: buy on ebay for free shipping and slightly cheaper price.

extrarice
100
extrarice 4 tasting notes

First steep prepared in a kyusu with 163 degree F water, steeped for one minute. A fantastic, grassy, sweet aroma, complex, almost savory, vegetal flavor without a hint of bitterness. Sip, pause to contemplate, then swallow.

A second steep for a minute and a half. Still fantastic.

Turned out slightly bitter this time. Water was too hot. However, it plays well with pieces of watermelon :)

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