#ProjectTeaWall
I’ve been dreading finishing off the senchas on the wall, but it’s gotta be done. I drank this one during the staff meeting we had on Sunday; to make it a little more bearable I added a 1/2 pump of agave. I’m at a point now with the rest of my staff where they know I’m dreading a tea/dislike it when I add agave to it because it’s so out of character for me. I generally just do not like adding sweetener, and the odd time I do it for general enjoyment I’m reaching for the honey…
This wasn’t TERRIBLE though. I mean, I finish it which is more than I can say for a lot of sencha I’ve consumed just casually. When I was doing my Sommelier course it was the one tea we’d do cuppings of that I dreaded more than anything else. I hated seeing tea go to waste so I’d finish every single cupping worth of tea – even on days I was doing 12+ cuppings in less than two or three hours. Every tea, that is, except the sencha. That one I’d just swish and spit, with usually ONE small swallow just to get a feel of the aftertaste…
This was a little bit peachy, but mostly just clean marine/seaweed notes. Abrupt finish, without lingering notes at all for which I was grateful. Unlike a lot of sencha, it didn’t taste super lawn-clipping like to me either which I think probably has to do somewhat with the fact this is a higher quality grade. It makes me dread the Japanese Sencha though because that’s the one I have left, and that’s the lowest grade we carry…
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6GxtIVnoB0&index=1&list=WL
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