Organic Decaf Sencha Green Tea Bag - Organic
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Commercial Description
Our Organic Decaf Premium Sencha using a CO2 process for decaffeination. This method removes 99.5% of the caffeine. Enjoy its classics flavor and aroma. We're sure you'll experience this tea to be wonderfully flavorful.
Ratings & Reviews
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50 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 2/5pocketroid (1 reviews) on Feb. 12th, 2020
Standard decaf green tea. I would not distinguish this as a special "sencha" one might look for. I was hoping Yamamotoyama's decaf sencha would taste like sencha, but it just tastes like standard chinese decaf bulk cheap teabag tea. The taste of every decaf green tea I have tried is the same. The process of de-caffeinating it must yield the same result in taste, be it Chinese or Japanese green tea. If this variety is common near you, it is may be affordable. For me, I specially ordered it. Locally, I will just go back to buying the huge box of Salada decaf green tea.
65 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5Difflugia (170 reviews) on Apr. 24th, 2017
This decaf certainly smells delicious. The dry teabag smells just like a sencha should. It's fresh, grassy, and a little seaweed. The tea is fine fannings, almost dust.
The tea steeps a bright green. The aroma, though a bit muted, is vegetal, like raw green beans.
The first taste is a strong, but pleasant bitterness. I normally steep decaf greens with boiling water for four minutes in order to get as much flavor as possible. Since this tea is more flavorful than I expected, I can probably use cooler water for this tea and get good results.
As it is, the tea is easily one of the best decafs that I've tasted. It's flavorful enough to recognize that it's distinctly Japanese rather than the blends used for most decaf greens. The bright bitterness is refreshing, since that's one of the flavors that often ends up muted in decafs. The finish is long and grassy.
The sweet seaweed that is normally a large component of sencha seems to be almost missing. I can smell it a little, but it's not there on the palate. I was hoping that it might appear after the tea cooled a little, but no such luck.
All told, this is a good decaf. It's a little more expensive than grocery store decaf greens, but worth it.
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