Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Grass, Hay, Straw, Flowers, Honey
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Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Michael
Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 15 sec 4 g 12 oz / 360 ml

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  • “Two things today, tea and a rant. I’m writing about tea first so anyone who wants to skip the rant may do so. ;) Tea: I like this! It’s very grassy and slightly bitter, similar to a sencha but a...” Read full tasting note
    81
  • “Tried this iced and paired with dinner: I’m working on my iced technique still – I tried using 50% more leaf than usual and following usual steeping parameters. So, I used 6 heaping tsp. leaves...” Read full tasting note
    80
  • “Something I ordered back in September from Adagio. I wanted to give some of their teas a try based on amazing reputation I had heard, and chose a green that was particularly hard to find. This tea…...” Read full tasting note
    74
  • “A light green tea with a pleasantly nutty underbelly — okay, okay: undertone (undertaste?) — that is very interesting, particularly since it comes from the addition, apparently, of twigs. Well...” Read full tasting note
    85

From Adagio Teas

Green tea from Japan that is an unusual combination of green leaves and thin white twigs. Twigs you say? Yes, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the results. A sweet infusion with herbal overtones and welcome hints of chestnuts. When feeling adventuresome, please give our ‘Kukicha Baton’ tea a try. And revel in its unique, playful taste.

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Adagio Teas has become one of the most popular destinations for tea online. Its products are available online at www.adagio.com and in many gourmet and health food stores.

31 Tasting Notes

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12 tasting notes

Very pleasantly light green tea taste, but can take on a horrible grassy flavor if you over steep.

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Seth Collins

I know what you mean, and it’s pretty bad! Also if you brew multiple times it can start to stink easily in your pot. It also leaves a lot of residue at the bottom of the cup.

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88
1 tasting notes

My favorite green — has a nice clean, somewhat grassy (but not too grassy like other greens I’ve had) taste. Good overall balance. Be careful not to oversteep, but its not as sensitive as other teas I’ve had.

Preparation
3 min, 30 sec

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80
4 tasting notes

This is another all day drinker. It’s light, super palatable and finishes sweetly. I’m a bigger fan of hojicha but this seems like the lighter version of that.

Flavors: Grass, Hay, Straw

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML

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30
236 tasting notes

Didn’t love this. It was subtle however, and had a grass undertone and aftertaste

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70
50 tasting notes

This is a very clean green tea, not bitter at all.

Flavors: Grass

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 24 OZ / 709 ML

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84
313 tasting notes

Oh, this is beautiful. It’s got a wonderful smoothness, with a dry aroma of sweet and nutty grass, that gives way slightly to a brewed fragrance reminiscent of steamed vegetables and freshly-mown lawn. This probably doesn’t sound as delicious as it is. It’s got a lovely gentle sweetness and has a smooth, very soft mouthfeel. A quintessentially green tea in the best possible way, really.

I have like a million things to be stressed about at the moment (like the way that my banking app seems to be really rubbish with actually showing me how much money I have in real time, so I keep getting unpleasantly surprised by how poor I am, GREAT) so it’s really nice to have something mellow and nice to make me feel all warm and happy in the evening.

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98
13 tasting notes

Probably my favorite tea from Adagio. Very sweet and medium body with no bitterness. Pleasant sweet grassy aroma! Excellent through 3 infusions (45 s, 15 s, 30 s @ 79 C). I know the 2nd one for 15 s does not seem like much, but it works very well.

Flavors: Flowers, Grass, Honey

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 45 sec 4 g 7 OZ / 200 ML

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60
615 tasting notes

Well, finace says it tastes like drinking a pine needle tea, but as he’s never had pine needle tea, and it’s definitely more grassy and toasty than that, I’m inclined to discount the thought. There’s a nice aftertaste of something chestnutty that lingers here too.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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78
8 tasting notes

I made a mug of Kukicha as my first this morning. The aroma of the dry tea leaves is wonderful — it reminds me vaguely of yerba mate (the lighter color and stems contributes to this also).

The resulting infusion is great as a morning tea — not too much vegetal or ocean comes through. Could be my go-to green tea for mornings before I hit the gym.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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61
172 tasting notes

I think it is important to try a tea couple of times before you comment on it. For me this tea is a prefect example of why i say this.

As i have said before, green tea is not my favorite. When i first started drinking this tea i did not like it at all b/c i felt it was way to grassy for me. i made it a couple more times and could not finish the cup. Each time making it differently so that i could try to get it to good for me. It was way to grassy for me.

Well i did. It is still not my favorite tea but it is okay. It is grassy. It is a smooth grassy taste. If you are a green taste drinker then you will probably like this tea.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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