Jade Cloud

Rishi doesn’t exactly talk up Jade Cloud, describing it as “a lively, delicious everyday green tea.” It’s mellow, it’s bright, it’s very low on astringency, it’s more sweet-vegetal than spinach-vegetal. As one of Rishi’s increasingly few standard Chinese greens (and their only current non-Jasmine Chinese green), this one won’t scream for attention but it is indeed very drinkable as an everyday green tea. It’s satisfying without demanding attention or fuss. It’s the kind of tea you can drink while making breakfast and not feel bad about all the nuances you’re missing… because there aren’t many to miss. It’s the Dunkin Donuts coffee of tea: approachable, satisfying, but not overly complex.

First steep is slightly sweet, a little grassy, well-rounded and smooth. This would be a great introduction to green tea for a new drinker; it’s neither aggressively astringent nor aggressively vegetal (no seaweed or broccoli water here), but has a nice body and an assertive enough taste that nobody will bemoan your flavorless hot water.

Second steep is much weaker but still enjoyable; sweetly green, smooth, slightly water chestnutty, and with a hint of freshly-crushed blueberry in the finish.

Rishi doesn’t recommend a third steep and other drinkers here have noted failure, but something quite nice actually emerges with an extended steep time of 8 minutes or so. Certainly wouldn’t go for a fourth unless I were feeling particularly cheap, though.

This is a high quality green tea that can easily be steeped for 3-4 infusions (despite what it says on the packaging). The grassy aroma and taste reminds me of a good Sencha. one thing to keep im mind is that it should be steeped for slightly longer than most green teas (at least for the first infusion).

This is a great, standard green tea. Nice crisp flavor, almost minty even, I enjoyed this tea every time I had it. Very refreshing. I would definitely buy more, although I would probably try some other green teas before I come back to this one.

I didn’t realize I liked this Rishi tea as much as I do. The nuttiness is great and unexpected from a Japanese green. I feel like I should like this tea less since it comes packaged from the market in my neighborhood, but if I’m ever running low and need to pick-up some tea locally I won’t hesitate to buy this again.

The raw tea leaves have a clean scent and a hint of something like fresh cut hay. The tea steeps to a mild yellow.

First steep: Light clean taste. Slight hint of vegetativeness, but not overpowering nor unpleasant. This is a very mellow green tea.
Second Steep – Same temp 5 minutes: Lighter taste, still pleasant. No vegetativeness this steeping.
Third Steep – Same temp 7 minutes: Pretty similar to the last steeping, maybe a bit less flavor.
Fourth Steep – Same temp 10 minutes: Too watery to enjoy.

Very good green tea, maybe even great.

One of my favorite green teas. Very complex, grassy, sharp, clean, rich. Very reasonably priced given the quality.

Nice. The roasted flavors aren’t as pronounced as I expected, but it complements the vegetal flavors nicely.

Yummy light green tea with a hint of toasty undertones. I’m actually almost out of this, need to get some more soon!