Nishi First Flush Sencha
Organic Steamed Green Tea
Description
Caffeine
Origin
Description
The Nishi family's teas are celebrated throughout Japan for their exquisite quality and dedication to organic cultivation techniques and masterful cultivar selection. We have partnered with the Nishi family for over a decade of sustainable tea farming, working with them to establish some of the first organic tea farms in southern Japan. This is Nishi's premier asamushi style steamed sencha with a bright, lively character that is only found in the first flush. The "first flush" refers to the first harvests of the spring season when new tea buds emerge and tea plants awake from winter dormancy. At this time, the bushes sprout up with great vigor and yield the richest, most balanced teas. Vivid and juicy, Nishi First Flush Sencha presents a dewy umami flavor and smooth mouthfeel.
Tasting Notes
Refreshing and brisk with a pleasant bitter-sweetness, deep umami flavor and a greenish-golden infusion color
Ingredients
Preparation
Traditional Preparation
Reviews
Reviews
Strong, Flat Taste
I actually prefer the cheaper Sencha Superior. That has more grassy top notes and some astringency. The
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Nishi First Flush Sencha has more of a strong, flat vegetal taste. It almost tastes like a fukamushi style sencha but the description says it's asamush style steaming.
Dennis
Lovely Sencha tea
I love Sencha tea. This one I have just tried and it is really something else. So fresh tasting and not
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over cooked. Quite lovely and rejuvenating. I think it is my favourite now.
Louise Forscher
Delicious, delicate
Just received my first order of several teas and this is the one I'm trying first. It is absolutely
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delicious, very delicate with a wonderful fresh taste, but absolutely no bitterness. My only complaint is that the pieces of teas are so small that a lot of them get through the the mesh strainer, even though I have one that sits in the cup and has much, much smaller holes that the typical tea balls. The result is that there are tea leaves in the cup which get stirred up when I tilt the cup to drink it.
Victoria
Deep Umami Rich Layered Texture
As a half Japanese that's lived in Japan for 18 years and drank green tea religiously every day, I can
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say that this is quality green tea, no doubt. I'm on my 4th infusion now as I type this, and it's still going strong. However it's a little expensive at $23 for 50g. If it were $17, I'd give this 5 stars. This tea is very rich and personifies the depths of umami flavors in green tea and would go very well with sushi. If you're familiar with wine, this is a Cabernet Sauvignon. If you're looking for a delicate Burgundy Pinot Noir type green tea, this is not for you. I'm speaking in metaphors here, so don't take this literally, but this is not a light, bright, grassy, green tea to sip in the sunshine on a hot day. This is a more serious, mature, formal, business type of green tea. Not to say that you can't enjoy this tea while having fun out in the sun... I'm just painting a picture using metaphors.
Nick
An enlivening and refreshing green tea with a rich savory-sweet flavor and creamy mouthfeel
Premium Japanese green tea with a rich mouthfeel and long-lasting fresh flavor
Fresh, grassy high notes with a smooth body, savory flavor and crisp finish