54 Tasting Notes
I find this tea very good. It has grassy notes more so than fresh spinach; it depends on how much you decide to use but you will enjoy a full mouth feel, experiencing umami. It has that fresh bright, electric green coloring which indicates a fresh tea and a reputable tea purveyor. I do recommend this tea. Quite enjoyable!
Preparation
Not crazy about this matcha, now that I have others and am somewhat proficient at making it correctly. Not recommend buying. The color as you can see is a yellowish-greenish-tan, NOT A GOOD COLOR for matcha! It should be a bright, vibrant, Jade-Kelly green with an aroma to fresh spinach and grass. It did not foam all that well, then again, I was new at whisking it and the taste was just plain dull and boring, it did not have that WOW! factor. After a couple of weeks, because I didn’t finish it, I went back to it and it had lost all of it’s taste…you can’t keep matcha fresh for long, but that was ridiculous.
Preparation
Um… uh… wha… HUH? Add this to the list of matchas I need to try for myself LOL=D
OH, HEAVENS NO!…don’t get, not that great of a taste.
I’m going to need to since I can’t even begin to fathom how any matcha (unless maybe if it’s sweetened) can get a 1.:)
ok, so maybe I am over exaggerating, but it isn’t that good
I did like this tea…it was sweeter than other matchas I’ve tried; I tend to like the grassier, vegetal tasting aspect of teas, with a little astringency to them. This one caught me off guard a little with the sweetness so prominent in the forefront. Whisking it up took a little effort, it never really produced the creamy foam unless you vary the amounts used or took your time in preparing it, you never really get a rich, dense, creamy foam.
The Tea Spot’s matcha is a good “starter” matcha because you get a little more than the average size for the price.
For the matcha connoisseur, I would not recommend this tea. It’s tasty and sweet but a little too much for me…Not my cup of tea!
Preparation
Your score really has me curious… I can’t fathom how matcha can be bad (not to be mistaken for prepared not to a person’s taste)… gotta give it a try:)
I do realize that good matcha is suppose to be sweet, but to me, this one was a little too prominently in the forefront. I like a good balance between sweetness and astringency.
Absolutely. I personally cringe at sweetened matcha “mixes” like Starbucks uses… I just can’t fathom that. A naturally sweet matcha I can handle. I love a mandarin orange flavored matcha that I have. But I also have a more savory unflavored matcha. Sometimes a person’s tastebuds just crave different things- just like chai, sometimes I drink it clean and other times w/ milk.
I am the same way. When preparing Chai, I leave out the honey in the mix and just let the individual add their own to taste. I do not like sugar in any of my teas whatsoever! Not that I’m a snob, it’s just the way I like them…I do not condemn someone who does though.
personally, flavored teas aren’t my favorite, I do like green Jasmine tea though.
I am new here to this site but not new to preparing tea. I absolutely LOVE Rishi Tea Matcha, 100% Premium Tea Powder it has all the attributes I look for in Matcha; it has the grassy, vegetal undertone preceded by a fine-bubbled, creamy, rich foamy, sweetness; the color is a rich saturated Jade green and the aroma is of fresh spinach with a little grass and a little hay.
I highly recommend this Maccha!
Preparation
Maccha? This matcha is amazing- it was my 1st. But, except for purchasing it maybe once to prepare myself since I’ve had it prepared by someone else, I’m not gonna bother buying it because A.) I prefer to prepare my matcha authentically and the packaging isn’t in line w/ that mindset B.) For the 90 miles it needs to travel to get to me, the shipping is too expensive and it takes too long buying it online- although my local tea shop has it for only $1 more (plus tax) than the website charges so I can avoid shipping. and C.) It’s pretty expensive for the amount even before factoring in shipping. But if you don’t care about the packaging and don’t need to be concerned w/ economical value (darn my limited income), it’s AMAZING.
YES, I do agree on the pricing point, in-fact, I e-mailed Rishi telling them my concerns about price but they only had a typical generic answer…nothing really to change it any; now about the packaging, again, yes, scooping it out with a chasaku, then whisking it with a chasen in a matchawan is the most pleasurable tasks of preparing matcha, however, if you can get past the packaging, it is THE BEST TASTING matcha I have ever had to date…I LOVE IT! I did splurge and bought a case so that I didn’t run out too quickly; I drink it quite often, 2-3 times a day.
lol… see… I can’t get past the packaging. I’m even going to take my tin w/ me when I go on vacations. But that’s just me though and I’m glad you can get past it. I’ve loved every single one of the matchas I’ve tried so I’m ok w/ passing on this one.
lol, that’s perfectly ok, but to pass on Rishi, OMG!…LOL…sorry, I love the stuff if you can’t tell by now…
So much matcha, so little time:) Maybe I’ll come back to it once I’ve tried every single matcha possible=D
That’s my goal as well…I have a box/chest full of 30g tins of matcha that I want to get to…my recent is from Takashimya/Irokuen and DoMatcha. But I love matcha and powdered Sencha since you ingest the whole leaf rather than just the runoff. You get all the benefits of the whole leaf if you drink matcha and powdered Sencha…but I like matcha way better.
Drink up! Matcha doesn’t stay fresh nearly as long as whole leaf. I tried powdered sencha from Den’s Tea because it was 15% off last month. Pretty good. I negate their preparation suggestions and prepare it just as I would matcha.
I swear we are on the same wavelength because I got in on the deal at Den’s Tea as well, I bought four pouches. It’s funny, I prepare some then use that as my water for preparing matcha. BOY, DO I WAKE UP AFTER DRINKING THAT!…lol
So you combine matcha and powdered sencha…? And 1 serving of each, not half?
pretty much!…actually, I don’t combine the two powders, I prepare the sencha first then I scoop in the matcha and whisk…VOILA! Super matcha-sencha bowl of tea…lol
Oooh you mean steeped and decanted sencha… Gotcha. We were talking about powdered sencha so I got confused.
that’s ok, haven’t had your matcha yet?…I tend to get that way too…lol
Actually I had mine about 2 hrs ago. I was talking about powdered sencha and then you said “I got in on the deal at Den’s Tea as well, I bought four pouches. It’s funny, I prepare some then use that as my water for preparing matcha.” Since the Den’s Tea deal was powdered sencha, I naturally thought that’s what you meant since you said no different.
yes, I would make the powdered sencha, then the mixed green tea [which is the powdered sencha] I use that tea/water mixture as the water for my matcha preparation.
So they’d end up combined…
yes, but the sencha is already made, just add the matcha to the green sencha tea water
But the flavor is no different than if you’d put them both in at the same time.
I guess not, it’s just the way I make it sometimes…but rare because I get a little too hyper with my “super” concoction, I usually just make matcha “regular”
I had their thin grade and it was AMAZING… I can’t even begin to fathom how good this is.