drank Gyokuro Yamashiro by DAVIDsTEA
268 tasting notes

The leaves are so dark green! They were quite small too but really expanded upon brewing. Everything about this tea is GREEN. The look, the smell, and especially the taste. To me, it tasted quite a lot like edamame, which I enjoyed. However, each sip ended with a really harsh astringency that I was not a fan of at all. Maybe I screwed up when I brewed this? I won’t rate it in case I did. Thanks to Virginia for doing so much to help me broaden my tea horizons :-)

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Virginia

The temperature of your water was too high, this is better at 70 degrees for 2 min

mj

The David’s site lies! I’ll try it at 70C next time. Thanks :-)

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Virginia

The temperature of your water was too high, this is better at 70 degrees for 2 min

mj

The David’s site lies! I’ll try it at 70C next time. Thanks :-)

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Tea-obsessed, book worm scientist.

I love black tea, especially Chinese black tea- I’m looking at you Fujians and Yunnans! I also enjoy Indian teas, mostly first flush darjeelings (and a select few assams).
I think I’m recently starting to like oolongs better though- gasp! I’ve been cheating on my black teas with all these lovely, alluring green floral oolongs. Sorry I’m not sorry.
White tea gets a lot of love too! I am particularly fond of silver needle whites.
I can’t seem to appreciate green teas and rooibos is foul, IMO.

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