Not Recommended
Shincha 2022.
This was a challenging tea. I waited for a while to rate it as I’ve been trying to make it work to no avail. Now that I’m down to the last few grams of the 100g bag, I’m convinced that the problem is not me but the tea.
Despite playing around with different temperatures and times, the tea remains stubbornly bitter. Once you get past the bitterness, there is umami mingled with spinach, an oceanic saltiness, and fatty tuna. It lacks the freshness of new spring tea and just seems flat to me.
O-Cha is one of the OG online Japanese tea shops and usually has good quality teas but this was a rare miss for me.
Flavors: Bitter, Fish, Salty, Spinach, Umami
Preparation
150 °F / 65 °C
1 min, 0 sec
9 g
14 OZ / 414 ML
