Tamaryokucha from Sonogi, Asatsuyu cultivar

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Beans, Freshly Cut Grass, Round, Sweet, Umami, Vegetables, Vegetal
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
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Average preparation
1 min, 0 sec 4 g 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “I’m being too lazy to create another page. I am drinking this same one but it is through a hotel here in Japan. The dry leaf is very nice. Warm umami notes along with slight touches of veggies and...” Read full tasting note
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  • “First ever tamaryokucha style green tea, and I believe it’s 2023 shincha, courtesy of Thés du Japon. Thank you! This morning’s cups were damn near perfect. Half the sample – 4g – went into the...” Read full tasting note
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beans, Sweet cooked vegetables
Umami★★★☆ / Astringency☆☆☆☆
Body★★☆☆ / Firing★★☆☆

Higashi-Sonogi is the town where most tea is produced in Nagasaki Prefecture, and almost all of Higashi-Sonomi’s tea is tamaryokucha (steamed), also known as guri-cha. Its development dates back to the 1950s, when tea from Sonogi was used to support tea production in Ureshino, located just on the other side of the mountains, in Saga Prefecture. In Ureshino, theRead more

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I’m being too lazy to create another page. I am drinking this same one but it is through a hotel here in Japan. The dry leaf is very nice. Warm umami notes along with slight touches of veggies and grass. But the wet leaf is even more delectable to my nose. Slight warn umami with hints of cream, sweet grass, and asparagus. If anyone is watching me sniff this tea bag they probably have a real amusing look on their face. The liquor full of umami and hints of veggies and grass. The mouth feel is silky.

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First ever tamaryokucha style green tea, and I believe it’s 2023 shincha, courtesy of Thés du Japon. Thank you!

This morning’s cups were damn near perfect. Half the sample – 4g – went into the steeper basket with cooled water from the work dispenser, steeped for maybe a minute. White beany and vegetal, full-bodied and round with sweet umami, not a lick of bitterness or astringency. Refreshing and engaging but mellow. Second much like the first. Third steep, brewed without cooling the water, was dark and cloudy; it tasted like the smell of the clumps of young, wet grass that stick to the bottom of the lawnmower. Wow, those were some great cups of tea. I have the rest of the sample set aside for brewing in a small pot.

Like gyokuro-lite. I dig this much more than gyokuro. More balanced.

Flavors: Beans, Freshly Cut Grass, Round, Sweet, Umami, Vegetables, Vegetal

Preparation
1 min, 0 sec 4 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
Marshall Weber 2 years ago

Love the descriptors in the note. Sounds like a tea I’d like a lot – I need to try it!

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