The smell doesn’t do much for me—it’s clean and vegetal and nice, but I can’t find anything distinguishing about it. Honestly, it kind of smells like a Chinese green to me, it’s got that kind of fresh green-sweet scent to it.
It was really hard to make out the taste right after it was done steeping, while it was still hot, but now that it’s cooled down a bit I can pick notes out a little better. It’s a very mineral, savory green. I’m not really tasting the seaweed, but I can see why people call it salty. I can taste a little bit of pine in here, which is weird to me in a green tea since I’m used to oolongs tasting like trees, but it’s not really overpowering and I’m not sure whether I would have noticed this without it being pointed out to me.
I’m split on how I feel about this. On one hand, I love savory Japanese greens, and this is very salty/savory and nice. On the other…I don’t know, I think beyond that it’s kind of boring. I was hoping to taste the “ocean breeze” note in this, and I really don’t. It’s just a mild, pleasantly salty green tea, and I have Uji Sencha for that.
Flavors: Mineral, Pine
