This is the feed of all reviews of Tamaryokucha (Guricha) on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/style/tamaryokucha/170/http://ratetea.com/review/3832/http://ratetea.com/review/3832/Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:04:55 ESTI actually found this tea to be refreshing and clean. It's simple, but not in a way that's bitter or at all unpleasant. I brewed it a short time at 175 °F and was pleasantly surprised by how very drinkable it is. The aroma is very light and the infusion is a pale green. Its a bit plain by itself, so I recommend drinking this one with food. It's still overpriced (I bought a single pack for $2), but it's got me wondering about this style of tea. I'll have to be on the lookout for one that's similar but l...http://ratetea.com/review/3763/http://ratetea.com/review/3763/Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:56:42 ESTVery good tea. It has a slightly nutty, very vegetal scent and taste, which I love. The dry aroma is pungent and pleasant in the same way as the brewed tea. It tastes somewhere between a gyokuro and China Green Tips, by Tazo (if I'm remembering those flavors accurately). It hasn't caused me any throat irritation the way that the Tazo tea did, though, which is great! The flavor was quite present, but I wouldn't have minded it being even stronger. I'll be very tempted to use more than a teaspoon's worth of l...http://ratetea.com/review/3505/http://ratetea.com/review/3505/Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:33:47 ESTsmells like asparagus...unique!! taste is very similar...medium-mild strength...unique and flavorful but not the best of tastes for my palate...might be quite good with sugar though! http://ratetea.com/review/2711/http://ratetea.com/review/2711/Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:22:22 ESTThe aroma of this tea is a wonderfully mild mix of chestnuts, scupernongs, and a touch of citrus. Once brewed the leaves take on a more hay aroma which blends really nicely with the chestnut. The taste is very mild and delicious! Sweetness with mild vegetal aftertastes. I will have to get my hands on more of this one. http://ratetea.com/review/2506/http://ratetea.com/review/2506/Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:08:03 ESTThe aroma is very green and vegetal with a slight hint of citrus. More like orange blossoms than orange fruit though, so I can see it also being considered floral. The flavor is also very green, and not in a bad way. Very light and also very bright! The taste is more like grass than vegetables, which is something I have run into a lot with Japanese greens. It feels like a tea I would want to drink after a heavy meal or anytime I would want to feel cleansed or refreshed. I am only rating this tea as ...http://ratetea.com/review/2455/http://ratetea.com/review/2455/Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:43 ESTI haven't had much Guricha so I can't compare this tea -- overall I thought it was good. I liked this tea warm -- it was smooth and had a subtle flavor. My only qualm was that it tasted a little burnt and strong when it got cold -- blech! I wouldn't recommend this for an iced tea. http://ratetea.com/review/2357/http://ratetea.com/review/2357/Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:30:46 ESTA high-end Japanese green tea, which I found infuses fast and is tricky to steep more than once. The first cup is excellent, but I was a bit let down overall, especially with how tough this one is to brew multiple times. This tea was so similar to Wegmans' Okumidori Sencha in color and smell (and was the same exact price) that when I opened the bins, I wondered if one of them had been mislabelled. But upon inspecting the leaf up close, it is easy to tell them apart: this tea has curvy leaves, whereas ...http://ratetea.com/review/2061/http://ratetea.com/review/2061/Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:34:11 ESTI only had one teabag to play with, and I think I brewed it badly. I followed the instruction on the packet to brew it for five minutes. It didn't say what temperature to use, so I guessed 175F or so, which I think was a mistake. Aroma-wise, the leaves were pleasantly citrusy, but once I brewed it, the aroma turned intensely vegetal. As for the taste, it had that 'umami' quality I've come to associate with Japenese-style tea, but entirely too much of it. The strongest taste was of seaweed, and not in a ...http://ratetea.com/review/1684/http://ratetea.com/review/1684/Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:07:15 ESTI just had this tea with my lunch and was surprised to see all of the negative ratings about it. Like the description I found that it has a light taste and to me it was crisp and refreshing. It had a different flavor than most green teas I've tried and I feel like tangy was a good way to describe it, but I didn't encounter a soapy aftertaste. I only brewed this tea for 3-4 minutes.http://ratetea.com/review/980/http://ratetea.com/review/980/Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:45:26 ESTI am a big fan of green teas and tried this one today. It is a bit bland tasting, but that's kind of how green tea is in general. I thought it tasted better than it smelled. I would say this tea is about average. I would drink again, but not necessarily choose it if there were other teas to drink.http://ratetea.com/review/742/http://ratetea.com/review/742/Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:50:52 ESTI am not a big green tea drinker to begin with, so I can't say for sure if my review is based on my general opinion of green teas or this tea in particular. It is certainly a drinkable tea, and when you first taste it it has a nice, full flavor. But there's a weird, almost soap-like aftertaste that I didn't like. Definitely do not let this sit for too long, because once it's cooled that soapy taste gets stronger. Not a bad tea, but not a particularly good one either.http://ratetea.com/review/84/http://ratetea.com/review/84/Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:26:15 ESTThis is the only example of guricha or tamaryokucha that I've tried, so I have no idea how typical it is. It seemed a lot more like gyokuro than any other type of green tea. I find this tea painstakingly difficult to brew in a way I like. Brewing with a very low temperature is essential...otherwise this tea acquires a strange aroma that is hard to describe but which I find to be quite unpleasant...it's a bit like spoiled or overcooked vegetables. Even when brewed with low-temperature water, however, ...