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“From this weekend and flash steeped with boiling water similarly to how I would normally make a Genmaicha for myself – mostly because I just needed to finish off some of the sad pile of green tea...” Read full tasting note
“Picked up some of this a few months back from a friend. My SO brewed some this morning. He over did it a bit – very bitter in the mouth – but a sweetness in the after taste. I loved it by the end.” Read full tasting note
“Good tea, but I dont think its good enough for the price. I picked this up a couple of weeks ago for 40% off and to me it was a good deal at that price. The tea is very buttery compared to a...” Read full tasting note
“It seems strange to go against everything a particular tea stands for. A gyokuro is supposed to be minimally processed, is it not? Why roast a gyokuro? According to Steepster, Davids is the only...” Read full tasting note
If you’re looking to treat yourself to an exceptional green tea, you can’t go wrong with gyokuro. One of the highest grades of Japanese tea, gyokuros are shade-grown for a sweet, grassy flavour all their own. And unlike your average gyokuro, this particular tea is slow-roasted during processing, which gives it rich, toasty finish. With notes of brown butter and a uniquely nutty aroma, this is one luxurious tea. Hey, why have anything but the best?
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.
My husband is sick with mono (which I’m 90% sure I had when I was 15) and therfore has been drinking a lot of tea-iced and hot. I’ve been really trying to resist buying more tea but I figured since he’s been burning through more tea than me, I’ll treat myself and pick up 25g of this.
Oh my word, this is delicious. I brewed it up in an improper way- I probably used 1.5 instead of 3/4 tsp and I only steeped it for about 30 sec in a rush to work, but It seemed to even out in the end. This tea is rich and buttery with a bit of a roasted flavour. It’s so lovely I feel bad that I didn’t get to sit and savor it like it deserves. I’ll have to do that tomorrow morning as I listen in on the church service online since we will be unable to attend with my husband’s mono!
Flavors: Butter
A lovely green. I could drink this all day if it weren’t so expensive! Unfortunately, my palate has not yet evolved to be able to distinguish between a really good green and an exceptional green tea. Maybe someday… In the meantime, I know I like this one: buttery, lightly roasted green goodness. Not too grassy, none of the bitterness of lesser greens. It reminds me of Sencha Ashikubo.
I haven’t had a gyokuro-based green in a long time, and I wanted to try it to see if I liked it better then the senchas from DT. It doesn’t quite wow me as much as Sencha Ashikubo, but I did enjoy it better than I thought I would! Definitely a grassy taste, but not too powerful, from what I found. Again, if it wasn’t so darn expensive, I’d have this in my stash!
What a treat this gyokuro is. It’s richly vegetal with this lingering aroma and taste of browned butter. It’s the perfect compliment to sea food, especially the raw variety. Since its grown under the shade, it also contains a high amount of amino acids giving you the perfect little mid day boost! :)
Flavors: Butter, Spinach
Oh, deliciousness. The flavour is pure browned butter, umami green tea, full-bodied vegetal flavour. Definitely requires a light touch – I have neither a timer nor thermometer here (nor measuring spoon, for that matter!) but I still managed a great cup. The roastiness is particularly pleasant. Hopefully I’ll get another couple infusions today – wet green tea leaves do not last!
Just bought 14g of this to try out. Not impressed.
I can taste the toasty buttery notes but the bitterness is just too strong to really enjoy it. I brewed it at 80C for 1min 30secs with my perfect mug strainer/infuser, so I don’t see why it should be bitter. Possibly has something to do with all the tea dust left in my cup.
Edit: retried it in cooler water and short steeps aaaaaand…. green tea just doesn’t like me, does it? All I get is a fleeting glimpse of the taste described, and then bitter bitter bitter destroying everything. I try going colder and colder and shorter and shorter with the steeps but just nononono.
Did you use more than 3/4 tsp for a cup? That, or using a finum filter (not available from DT) should fix the bitterness issue. I would not be surprised if the tea dust was the culprit, tbh.
I think overleafing may have been a problem! My mugs are very large so I probably overestimate the amount I need. I don’t have any more left of my sample but I was having problems with other green teas as well, but I made some adjustments and its going better now. I should pick up another 15g or so to give it another shot like I did with the others.
Awesome! Yeah, I find greens can be tough to get the hang of because they’re so picky, and one problem is that some greens by crappy tea vendors are virtually impossible to steep correctly (age, broken leaf, etc. etc.). It should be possible to brew all greens up to a delicious, astringency-free cup, but it’s very easy to fail!
I’ve never tried gyokuro
It’s so good. Its expensive but a rue pleasure to drink.
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