Japanese Gyokuro Shizuoka (Shade)

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Green Tea
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Green Tea
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165 °F / 73 °C 1 min, 45 sec 12 oz / 354 ml

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  • “In today’s steep-off chez sherapop, Thé Santé Gyokuro Shade is going sip to sip, sniff to sniff against Teavana Gyokuro Imperial. To my surprise, Teavana won the competition! Gyokuro Shade is good,...” Read full tasting note
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A full flavored green tea that has a satisfying light refreshing character. Tending pleasantly vegetative with some briskness.

Country of Origin: Japan

Region: Shizuoka Prefecture

Grade: Gyokuro

Altitude: 500 – 1500 ft. above sea level

Manufacture Type: Shade grown and steamed green tea

Cup Characteristics: A full flavored green tea that has a satisfying light refreshing character. Tending pleasantly vegetative with some briskness

Infusion: Very bright

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In today’s steep-off chez sherapop, Thé Santé Gyokuro Shade is going sip to sip, sniff to sniff against Teavana Gyokuro Imperial. To my surprise, Teavana won the competition!

Gyokuro Shade is good, no doubt, but it brewed up slightly less green and was a bit less flavorful than the Teavana. I used exactly the same brewing parameters for the two teas. Now I must either lower the rating of this tea or raise the rating of the Teavana.

I’ve decided to do a complete green tea steep-off, by the way. You know how they do big tennis tournaments? I’m doing the same thing, in order to determine which is my ichiban green tea. I am starting by comparing the same type of tea with the same type of tea side-by-side—so sencha vs. sencha, gyokuro vs. gyokuro, Long Jing vs. Long Jing, Mao Feng vs. Mao Feng. Then once I’ve found the winner in each category I’ll do steep-offs between my favorite in each category against other favorites in other categories.

Eventually, I’ll learn the truth: which is my favorite green tea of them all?

second infusion: held up pretty well

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 1 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
caile

Will look forward to reading your steep-off notes!

sherapop

Thanks, caile! I’m looking forward to finding out the answer to the question: which is my favorite green tea of all? ;-)

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