Whoa. This is a bold, complex green tea.
The steeped tea smells like the bagged (not fresh) roasted chestnuts that I get whenever I’m in a Chinatown around North America. This is a good thing – I love those chestnuts! I used to eat them by the bagful… uh.. moving on.
There’s also a lot of vegetal notes in this tea. I taste… peas? A bit of grassiness, and some sweet notes, too. In the description there’s also unami, and I definitely get that as the tea cools, it becomes the primary note.
A lovely tea. Not one I’d reach for every day like I did the chestnuts, although I might if it were piping pot and I needed a green tea.
A huge thanks to TeaBento for sharing this tea with me so I could review it.
Flavors: Chestnut, Grass, Peas, Vegetal
Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C
3 min, 0 sec
2 g
12 OZ / 354 ML
