Customer Reviews

Rishi Tea, Green Tea Sencha, 2.11-Ounce Tin

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I've had Teavana, Mighty Leaf and many other green Sencha teas, and this one seems the freshest and strongest, but not bitter. In fact, I can use about 1/2 of this and get the same "oomph" as the other teas. It REALLY swells up when the water is added. DELICIOUS. It seems it's less stemmy and more leafy. Yum. I'm a green tea lover, and I understand that the Japanese green teas provide more polyphenols than most of the Chinese green teas, and Sencha is one of the best for polyphenols. Highly recommended!

This is a Japanese Green Tea, not Chinese.
That makes the difference,its steamed to get it ready for market.
If you love green tea and have the patients to check the heat of the water and the amount of time the tea is in the water, then you can have the experience of a life time.
You will not be disappointed In Rishi Sench Green. Its the best at any price , none better.

compared to a number of other brands i have tried, especially ones that aren't loose leaf, the taste of this green tea is simply great.

as the directions indicate, be careful not to steep the tea for too long and in overly hot water. when i leave the leaves in hot water for over 10 minutes, the color of the tea is no longer a clean green, but rather a yellowish green and it doesn't taste as good. still, correctly prepared, it is one of the best green teas i have ever had.

The title really says it all - if you enjoy brewing tea and drink it daily, this is a great everyday sencha. It has a good, clean flavor you can only get from a full leaf tea like this.

Now - a thing or two about Rishi's actual brewing instructions. This is the second Rishi tea I've tried, and like the first, the quality is great and I've been thoroughly enjoying it. If you follow Rishi's brewing instructions, however, you will get an overly potent, undrinkable mess instead of the mild, subtle yet undeniable flavor of a properly brewed green tea. Green tea isn't supposed to taste like the crap you get at Panera or from Lipton - you're not supposed to be assaulted by intense flavor when you drink it. If you follow Rishi's instructions though, that is what will happen and you'll probably end up writing reviews about how it tastes like grass.

1 tablespoon per 8 ounces of water is beyond overkill. Brewing that for 3-4 minutes is even greater overkill. Like most other full leaf greens, 1 TEASPOON per 8 ounces of water brewed for between 1.5 to 2.5 minutes is what the brewing instructions on this tea should be. If I were to put 3 tablespoons of this stuff in my tetsubin and brew it for 4 minutes. . . I don't even want to know what would come out of the spout.

So, 1 teaspoon/8 ounces of water for 1.5 - 2.5 minutes (2.5 is even pushing it) and you'll get an amazing green tea that has the subtlety and smoothness that you're supposed to get out of a green like this. If it's bitter or you feel like you're on a green tea roller coaster, you've brewed it wrong.

I am absolutely addicted to this stuff. It's such a clean aroma and flavor, the hands-down best sencha ever. And I'm kind of a tea snob.

Ever since I flew on Japan Airlines and had delicious Sencha tea I've been looking for it. Some of the teas I've bought have a weak taste, but this particular tea has a great smell and a strong taste and can be re-steeped 3 times. The price is high for better sencha, but the price on this Rishi Tea seemed fairly reasonable considering how good the tea tastes.

This tea is vacuum packed for freshness (a foil bag inside the tin), as all sencha should be. The taste is pure, green, and luscious. [...] I would give this 5 stars, but when I bought this it was 12 dollars and now it's 14.

Delicious tea. Very smooth with almost no astringency. Unfortunately there are only about two ounces of tea in this canister. [Cry.]

What a difference this tea is from bagged teas, even the organic bags! As mentioned by other reviewers, it is very GREEN. The leaves, the tea... GREEN! I wasn't expecting the natural sweetness to it, it's almost weird and grassy to me. This probably means it's better and I just need to get used to it. Heed the warnings to not steep too long - the bitterness makes it quite awful. I was, however, able to save that first pot by diluting it and drinking it iced after adding sweetener and lemon.

This is Japanese loose tea that comes in a can. It is very good. Each cup gets stronger so you can use the same leaves for many cups.