Your Essential Sencha?

[Chip]

i still have a bag of unopened YM-limited edition from o-cha in the fridge, and i hope that it'll be good like the other ones or even better!?!

You will not be disappointed.

I found the Supreme to reign supreme over the "Classic" in shincha form, but the shincha Classic was on the mild side this year. I hear the nonshincha Classic is more vibrant than the shincha.

Regardless, the Supreme is really good. Try brewing it a bit cooler, like around 153-155* for a bit longer, 60 seconds.

And per Tortoise, the YM is also really amazing warming in the preheated kyusu, so is Miyabi. Well, try this with any sencha. Put the dry leaf in a preheated kyusu and stick your nose right in there and take a whiff. This will make you sit down and settle into a an excellent sencha experience.

[debunix]

I believe all Ippodo sencha is asamushi.

Good to know!

(flashing asa gang sign)

[Chip]

I believe all Ippodo sencha is asamushi.

Good to know!

(flashing asa gang sign)

*flashes sencha gang sign*
USFL. The United Fellowship of the Steamed Leaf.

[JRS22]

No essential sencha - but I'm waiting "patiently" for the OTTIs and I'm hoping to find one there.

[Chip]

No essential sencha - but I'm waiting "patiently" for the OTTIs and I'm hoping to find one there.

I hope you do!

Interestingly, my essesntial sencha only makes up around 10% or less of my Japanese tea consumption. Yet I truly have a fixation on it. Yet I crave variety far more than any one sencha ...

[olivierco]

Kaboku sencha (Ippodo) and Ujibashi san no ma sencha (Tsuen).

is the kaboku asamushi?

Yes

[olivierco]

Ujibashi san no ma? Is this the aka Kirameki from O-Cha?

There is a little difference: Kirameki is the Shincha name of Ujibashi san no ma.

[Marco]

I have none yet. Just trying one by one. There are so many to try.
Perhaps I stumble upon one I will really crave for.

[Victoria]

It took me awhile, but Sae Midori from O-Cha is the only one that consistently works for me. Sometimes in the spring, Den's Sakura.

[twinofmunin]

I loved me some of O-cha's Sae Midori, until one day I ordered some Warashina Supreme... I was expecting it to be "worse" since it's an organic and I'd heard all the spooky things said about organics being weaker in flavour, but... it was amazing . I think it qualifies as my go-to sencha now... so good.

[entropyembrace]

I loved me some of O-cha's Sae Midori, until one day I ordered some Warashina Supreme... I was expecting it to be "worse" since it's an organic and I'd heard all the spooky things said about organics being weaker in flavour, but... it was amazing . I think it qualifies as my go-to sencha now... so good.

I think that today organic tea farming in Japan is developed enough that the organic teas can compete with conventionally grown teas in their own price range and come out favourably.

When ordering from O-cha I haven´t been paying much attention to if the tea I´m ordering is organic or not...I´ve ordered two organic senchas...one premium priced (Ooigawa Supreme) and the other mid-priced (Oku Yutaka) and both compare well with the conventionally grown teas in their price range that I´ve also ordered from O-cha.

[DoctorD]

I'm still playing the field, but if next year's asamushi Oku Yutaka from Yuuki-Cha is as good as this year's, that could be It.