2015 Autumn batch:
I’m pretty sure this may be different than the past years. The leaf is large for a Japanese sencha.
https://instagram.com/p/9NFnYExYCN/ (middle left)
There are roughly four different shades between the leaf as it is dry as well which looks pretty before being steeped. This is a smooth and easy to brew sencha, but I believe the reason that this would be something to get over the other ‘Sencha of the" series would be it’s slightly less vegetable taste which is replaced with a tiny bit of dryness that reminds me of fall leaves.
I enjoy that the ‘fall’ / ‘autumn’ taste of this tea is not provided by a roasted taste, rather it is done by having the taste of the dry leaf that is somewhat dead; not that this doesn’t taste fresh, one just has to try it.
I ended up drinking all of this within two days and it is one of the few sencha that I have resteeped as well.
