Japanese Green Tea Co. Gyokuro Premium Loose Leaf Green Tea - 3.5 Oz (100g) – Shaded Imperial Jade Drew Tea - Vegan and All-Natural Sencha Japanese Tea

I love green tea and have been drinking it all of my life, and since discovering this wonderful tea company I am so happy that I have excellent green tea once again.

Gyokuro is one of the most expensive types of sencha in Japan. It is shaded with straw mats from the sun for at least 20 days before harvest. This increases the theanine level and the caffeine level. The leaves are also darker due to the increase in chlorophyll. It is high in polyphenol, catechin and EGCG Element as well.This Gyokuro from the Japanese Green Tea Company is of an excellent grade. It is from the Yabukita cultivar, the most popular cultivars for Japanese green tea, and sourced from the green tea farms in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan. It has a beautiful emerald green color with a rich aroma.This tea is in a different league from sencha when it comes to quality and taste. It has a sophisticated flavor with subtle delicate sweet notes. It is rich, smooth, mellow and less bitter. Richly aromatic as well.The brewing instructions provided are more for sencha. For Gyokuro, it is recommended to steep it at a lower temperature, around 120-140°F, in order to bring out the sweet notes and less bitterness. It can be re-steeped multiple times at a slightly higher temperature each time.This comes sealed in a little foil bag inside a sturdy paper tube canister. Mine has a best before date of 11 months from now. Keep it in a cool, dry place. Overall, I'm very pleased with this Gyokuro. It is an excellent-grade shaded green tea. The price seems high but not unreasonable for a quality Gyokuro. It is the type of Japanese green tea you want to enjoy slowly on a relaxing day.

We drink green tea almost every day, but I admit that we usually drink the medium-quality tea that costs $10 to $15 for 100 grams. This tea is $65 for 100 grams. No, it isn't 5 times as good (if that is even possible to measure) as what we usually drink, but it is noticeably better than our every-day tea. We plan to use this for special occasions only. The flavor is smooth and delicate.There are brewing instructions included with the tea. We use 2 teaspoons of tea in a small teapot with 2 cups of 175F water. Don't use boiling hot water with Japanese-style teas. A teapot with a large and ver fine mesh infuser works a lot better than a tea ball that doesn't let the water flow freely. Steep the tea for 2 minutes and pour. If you want a richer flavor, use more tea leaves, do not steep for longer than 2 minutes or the tea will get bitter. You can steep the tea leaves twice.The tea has a beautiful green color, nice fresh aroma, and rich flavor. The flavor is noticeably richer than our $10 tea, but $65 wine isn't 5 times better than $15 wine either.

This loose leaf green tea contains Gyokuro leaves, which are made with only the earliest leaf buds of the spring tea harvest. They are shaded from the sun for 20 days using special straw mats that are placed under bamboo, reed or straw slats that resemble giant horizontal venetian blinds. Growing the tea in diffuse sunlight reduces the level of photosynthesis in the young spring leaf buds. This results in the tea plant producing higher levels of chlorophyll, which modifies the relative proportions of sugars, amino acids, caffeine and flavanols that contribute to the color, aroma and taste of the young tea leaves and buds.This also causes both the amino acid theanine and the alkaloid caffeine in the tea leaves to increase, which helps to yield a sweeter flavor. The tea also gains a distinct sweet asparagus aroma from the covering process. Ultimately, this reduced level of sunlight yields a milder and sweeter flavor, aroma, and significantly less astringency. As a result, Gyokuro green tea is perhaps the most esteemed tea produced in Japan.Gyokuro green tea should be steeped at a lower water temperature. One major reason for the lower steeping temperature is to preserve the subtle and nuanced sweet notes that are present in most Gyokuro teas. I steeped a teaspoon of this Gyokuro in cup at a temperature of 175-185 degrees by allowing freshly boiled water to cool for three minutes. If you steep at higher temperatures, you will bring out more of the vegetal qualities of the tea, but at the risk of removing the sweet notes while increasing astringency.I thoroughly enjoyed the sweetness, the additional complexity and the higher caffeine levels of this Gyokuro. It is a green tea with exceptional finesse and depth. It's also rather pricey but most worthwhile things are. I recommend finding a way to sample this excellent Gyokuro in order to learn how great a green tea can be.

Firstly, it's a single packet of loose green tea instead of the 3 that they show in the main picture. I got three 8 oz cups out of it.I followed the instructions on the page to steep the tea in hot water for a minute. Even while boiling, there was an unpleasant smell, similar to that of boiling spinach. I am not a big fan of such smell and it was a huge turnoff to want to try and drink this thing.After straining it, I had a sip of the tea and it wasn't as bad as the smell but it wasn't that appealing either for me to continue drinking it. Unfortunately I had to throw the rest of it away.I do drink green teas without any sugar or honey, but those are usually the ones you get in single use sachets. Those don't smell or taste this bad. If you're OK with such smells and want to try it further, maybe this gives the benefits it claims.

This product is clean and full of flavor. After few days of use I got big headache due to increased hypertension.. Headache stayed days and nights ane it went away after next day after stop using this green tea. My doctor told me not to drink this brand again. I'm bern driving green tea 'Sencha' Japanese organic green tea since 2017 never have any problems!!

Got this and the yuzu sencha tea & I love them both! This tea is dark leafed but the flavor is not overpowering or too strong. Earthy taste with its own sweetness.