chaganju Green Tea leaves Sencha, JAS Certified Organic, Japanese Green Tea, Uji-Kyoto, 80g Bag, Sencha Green Tea, Loose Leaf【YAMASAN】

Wonderful. Such a difference between leaves and tea bags! Excellent quality.

Love the fresh taste it provide.

This tea was purchased as a gift for a person who really knows tea. She loves it. What more can I say? Expensive but worth it.

This tea has a pretty strong seaweed smell (and maybe a little taste). But it has a very nice taste. I cold brewed for 4 hours. If you’re opposed to the seaweed taste steer clear of the Japanese teas or at least go with a Gyokuro.

Great tea and flavor. Mix with other tea or have alone. I would buy again for sure. Good size and price

I'm still very young in my tea journey, so please don't expect the review of a connoisseur.Most teas green or otherwise that I've tried recommend 1 instead of 2 teaspoons of dry tea to 7oz of water, I followed the package directions which just suggested 2 teaspoons, and my hot water device is limited to 8oz. Steeped at 75C.The smell is unlike other green teas I've had, as far as loose leaf, the only other green tea I've tried is Vahdam's Himalayan Green. This tea has a much stronger flavor than Vahdam. When it hits my tongue I'd say the first flavor that I get is more of an earthy "mushroom" flavor, with a mild tea flavor in the background that fades into a little astringency and tea bitterness. (3min might be to long for a first steep.) There's definitely a plantlike flavor that cuts across the middle, but I definitely wouldn't call this "grassy." I would say there's a definite hint of "seaweed" in the mix.It reminds me of some of the teas I've had in Good sushi restaraunts, though my strainer is clearly not good enough as my brew looks more cloudy than what's represented in some of the pictures I've seen of this tea. The particles are light enough NOT to settle during the drinking of a single cup, it doesn't bother me at all.A second steep at 2min this time provides a flavorful green tea, less pronounced on the earthy/astringent/seaweed notes I described in the first steep (done for 3min).I wish this were a little less expensive, this is probably one of my favorite green teas I've tried, and while I still admit that I'm new to loose leaf, there's something about Japanese green teas overall that has a character unlike any other geographical region I've tried. This would definitely be a daily staple, this is something that on a cold rainy day I'd want to brew and sit down with a nice bowl of miso by a fire. Genuinely a great tea.

Brew clean and tastes good, but quite expensive for the amount.

It has a really good flavor. The only reason I took a star off is because it’s not whole leaves, lots of broken up pieces. I accept that something dried will be brittle and break but I have bought bags of high quality teas and even though broken. They should be in large pieces not scrappy small ones