Makinohara Kukicha

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Kukicha
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Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 30 sec 3 g 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “I just opened pouch of this one, probably being the last from Around the World in 8 Teas Selection Box by Curious Tea! received a year ago as a Christmas gift. I really should focus on those sample...” Read full tasting note
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Kukicha (茎茶) is an award-winning green tea from Japan that is made from sencha tea leaves as well as leaf stems that are removed during the production of sencha. As it is made with the stems, it’s also known as ‘twig tea’. The inclusion of the parts of a tea plant that are normally excluded from sencha tea production results in a unique sweet yet grassy flavour that you are bound to love!

This tea comes from Makinohara in Shizuoka Prefecture andRead more

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I just opened pouch of this one, probably being the last from Around the World in 8 Teas Selection Box by Curious Tea! received a year ago as a Christmas gift. I really should focus on those sample / small amount teas I have, as they take a lots of space, but it doesn’t contain much of tea!

Prepared western, 3g/300 ml, 80°C water (set on the new kettle I bought as a Christmas gift for everyone this year!) — I won’t lie, it will serve me the most and two steeps 90 seconds each.

In the middle of meltdown, I found out I have a mood for nice, grassy green tea and I found out that I probably don’t have much of those? I mean, I have lots of green teas around; afterall, I have lots of teas around, but green grassy tea seemed to be rare in my cupboard. This one says grassy profile on its packet, so I decided to open it, though I have some others that needs to be focused on drinking. Definitely something to focus on. Drinking all the teas…

I have digressed and now to the tea. Well, I have a little different opinion what means grassy but maybe as it was harvested in May 2022, it could be age. It is grass-hay like a bit, though quite sweet and some toasted notes with hints of savoury aftertaste is good actually. Not what I have been expecting, as I wrote before, but it could be age as I already wrote. Smooth and fairly long aftertaste lingers in the mouth.

Nevertheless, it is fine and if I finish remaining 7 grams in timely matter, I think I can get nice cuppas of this lovely scenting and visually nice tea.

Who would think that UK based company will have green teas better than black teas in their sample box?

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 30 sec 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
Michelle 2 years ago

Yay for a new kettle!

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