Sencha "Matsuri"

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Asparagus, Broth, Green Beans, Grass
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 1 min, 15 sec 8 oz / 250 ml

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  • “This note is probably much too long for the tea. But you have to understand, I have been out of sencha for what feels like ages. I don’t know how much longer I can wait on my shincha pre-orders...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I’m taken back to a happy place when I was staying with a friends family in Japan. Every morning when we woke up, we ate thick toast with yogurt and a cup of sencha tea. We’d eat while huddling...” Read full tasting note
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  • “A nice sencha. A right enjoyable cup. Salty, sweet, thick but not overly so. I prefer mine a bit thicker but this will do. Came in my Lupicia Happy Bag. I would order it again for sure but I can’t...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Green tea of the morning here. I’ve been trying to decide if this is worth saving because it came in the Lupicia Happy Bag of last year, isn’t at its prime and I also have green teas I like a lot...” Read full tasting note
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SENCHAMATSURI” is a full-bodied sencha with a gentle mouthfeel. This tea is made with the representative “Yabukita” cultivar grown in Japan. It is a “fukamushi” (deep steamed) type which means the leaves are steamed three times longer than regular green tea, resulting in smaller pieces that produce a dark green tea with a full body and smoothness. Ideal for those who prefer richly mellow green teas. Great for making iced green tea.

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This is my first cup of tea today. :) I like drinking sencha in the morning because it is mellow and calming… it allows me to enjoy the beginning of the day (in contrast to breakfast tea which instantly shakes your drowsiness off with its astringency, as if it is pushing you to work! work! work!). This tea has a beautiful yellow-green liquor. It tastes vegetal but the flavour is not as strong as most other Japanese sencha – kinda tastes(?) like a grassy park in a cool morning. :) I am happy with it.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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Third tea from the Lupicia pack.

This ‘festival’ sencha is clearly a fukamushi sencha as it is written on the leaves and in Japanese on the package. (One thing that strikes me is how much that I could have missed if I did not know Japanese. Usually, they write a lot in Japanese, but leave only a small English translation. Oh well.) The leaves are tiny, almost like powder, and the smell is good.

The amount recommended was about 110 cc for 3-4g of tea. I guess that means about 2 dl for 5g, being generous with water. I might have used a bit to much water as the cup I use usually use contains about 2.5 dl, and I poured in enough water to fill the whole cup.

As a result I guess the first cup, although very good, without any trace of bitterness, was perhaps just a bit bleak. I would have wanted it to be a bit stronger. The second cup went to my Japanese resident manager as we often enjoy tea together. The third cup, however, was strong, sweet and deilicious! Especially, the aftertaste, or umami if you want, was what made this tea special.

I might not buy this right away, as I have loads of tea to consume, but it is a tea I will keep in mind when shopping sencha.

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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Bought this tea from Mitsuwa Marketplace in San Diego and was disappointed in the quality, texture, and flavor of the tea. After drinking it I caught the flavors described in user reviews “salty, asparagus, and green bean” though that’s the problem! Initially blaming my taste buds and method of preparation, I tried steeping another batch only to be disappointed once more. This sencha is like vegetable ramen, not the alfalfa, grassy, sweet varieties I’m used to, the tea is so fine that it goes through the mesh strainer. I’m by no means a tea snob I drink about every kind I get my hands on and this was the first time I was disappointed, which prompted me to create a steepster account so I would not make the mistake of buying horrible tea again.

Flavors: Asparagus, Broth, Green Beans

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 1 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 350 ML

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From the Pass the Stash TTB

I’m a lil obsessed with Lupicia right now after visiting their store in San Francisco. Which was awesome. Such a lovely store. So one I spotted this one I knew it was the first one I wanted to try. And it doesn’t disappoint. Green tea can be very hard to get right but I must have steeped this for the perfect amount of time because the grassy notes are gorgeous on my tongue. That sounds weird… It was good hot but I’m also enjoying it slughtly chilled at the moment.

Preparation
145 °F / 62 °C 0 min, 45 sec 1 tsp
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I love that store too :)

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I am not rating this tea just yet, because I want to try it again before I settle on the score. I have never made a tea as delicate as Sencha “Matsuri” — low water temperature and steep time, yikes — so I again just want to have a couple more goes at it. Like, I don’t know. I feel like I left the loose leaf in too long. It tasted a bit bitter.

:(

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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