Top 10 Japanese Greens

[Uji]

What are your top greens? Some of my all time favorites are. . .

Tenka-ichi Gyokura from Ippodo

Takumi Gyokuro from Maiko

Kaboku Sencha from Ippodo

Tokujo Sencha from Otsuka

[Chip]

This is a bit difficult since some offerings come and go from year to year. Some perennial powerhouses ...

Yutaka Midori from O-Cha

Kame Jirushi Gyokuro from O-Cha

Takumi from Zencha

Fuji SP from Zencha

Kinari from Maiko

Shuppin from Maiko

Hashiri from Den's

Supreme Shizuoka First Flush Kukicha from Rishi

[entropyembrace]

You didn´t give 10 so I won´t either xD

but...

1) Kiri-No-Mori matcha from O-cha

2) Fuga SP from Zencha

3) Chiran Sencha from O-Cha (though I would have put the shincha version of YM Supreme here if it was still available...the sencha version isn´t as buttery...Chiran actually has more of the buttery flavour in sencha form I think)

I think top 3 is a good number...it puts my current standouts together...if I made the list longer It´d be more diluted down to just Japanese greens I like xD

[tortoise]

I haven't sampled widely enough to be a real valuable contributer, but of what I have had:

1) YM Kaoru Supreme - O-Cha
2) Miyabi - O-Cha
3) Maruyama - Maiko
4) Fuji SP YM - Zencha
5) Warashina Supreme - O-Cha
6) Shin-Ryoku - Den's
7) Sencha Premier - Adagio

Looking forward to trying Chiran next week. Need to catch up on Gyokuro as well.

If I can make my next Fukamushi sencha order from o-c last, I'm leaning toward Maiko for the follow up order. Will get some light steamed sencha and gyokuro.

[brlarson]

Here are my ten:

• Zencha Ultimate Sencha
  Zencha Ultimate gyokuro
  O-Cha Kame-Jiru-Shi
  Tea Gallery Yame Gyokuro
  O-Cha Ujibashi San no Ma
  Hibiki-an pinnacle sencha
  Zencha Nakai's Organic Uji Sencha Superior
  Zencha Takumi
  O-Cha Uji Matcha Manten
  O-Cha Uji Matcha Kiku Mukashi