Difflugia
Tea Reviewer
Member since Mar. 9th, 2017. Reviewed 170 teas.
Reviews of Teas & Herbal Teas from ITO EN
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Oi Ocha Koiaji Dark Green Tea from ITO EN
Style: Green Tea – Region: Japan76 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Mar. 21st, 2019
The dry tea is tiny, broken pieces, almost like fannings. I assume it's a lower grade, "everyday" tea. I use a metal tea ball with a tight mesh to brew loose tea and there's a ton of sediment at the bottom of my cup, which is distracting and a bit off-putting.
Brewing, the tea smells like seaweed with underripe appl...
Oi Ocha Green Tea with Wakame Wakakuki from ITO EN
Style: Green Tea – Region: Japan84 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
Feb. 7th, 2019
I ended up overnight in the Detroit suburbs for work and found this tea in a Japanese grocery store.
The dry leaves are broken up into much smaller pieces than the Japanese senchas that I'm used to. It's very pungent, though, smelling of cut hay and alfalfa.
Adding the water releases just a ton of aroma. The colo...
Oi Ocha Green Tea from ITO EN
Style: Green Tea – Region: Japan85 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
Oct. 11th, 2017
The standard tea bags are packaged in plastic. When opened, the tea is quite pungent, smelling fresh, sweet and of seaweed.
I used 175° water for three minutes. This tea is really aromatic while brewing. The tea smells like seaweed, but not fishy.
The flavor is definitely of high-quality Japanese green tea, but ...
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