The Tea Makers of London Japanese Sencha Green Loose Leaf Tea 125 g Caddy

I never really drank green tea until roughly a year ago when I started on Jasmine by the same company. I had read about some health benefits so I thought worth a shot. This sencha is great! I now exclusively drink this alone, twice a day. Ditched black tea from bags, it doesn’t compare. As others have said it has a kind of refreshing, grassy taste. Tastes best when prepared ‘correctly’ at 70 degrees. I’ve discovered pairing this with dark chocolate and it’s surprisingly good! I’ll be buying this for a long time.

Most of the green teas available on the market taste bitter and hence people avoid it. I too have tried many brands but I never got used to the taste. However a friend suggested this brand and I fell in love with it!! As soon as you open the bag, you can smell how fresh it is and see the beautiful green leaves. I genuinely look forward to having my shot of sencha every morning, it is the best part of my day! The taste is magnificent and you can taste the quality. It has a nice mild aroma and earthy flavors with no bitterness at all and the flavour lingers on. I suffer from terrible headaches and were relying on painkillers to get rid of it, but since drinking this tea it has touted to be the perfect remedy for my headaches. I will most definitely be purchasing more, it is well worth the price and benefits.

After I finished my bag of Teapiga Mao Fejg green tea, I wanted to try a different brand as they are becoming quite expensive. I thought I'd try the sencha green tea from The Tea Makers of London as the product looks great, and it comes with a caddy. The tea came loose leafed, in a plastic bag inside the caddy (not sure it needed to) with the bag being only half the size of the caddy. Once brewed the tea produced a clear green colour and a nice scent. However the tea is not strong, no matter how long it brews for. For some this might be disappointing as I like my tea to get stronger in the pot after time, so I can keep topping up with water. I've tried a few times to no avail here. However the taste is nice and delicate, so I assume it's due to the different type of green tea to what I'm used to. Overall it's a good mild green tea, not over-bitter but not strong enough for me.

The nicest Japanese green tea on Amazon UK. Although it's doubled in price since I discovered it a few years ago. 250g was £15 in 2022

If you are a tea freak like me, you will LOVE this quality sencha tea. I tried several brands before settling for this one. Yes it is expensive yet this is an investment to have good sencha quality tea to drink. I loved it so much that I bough 2 other boxes after the first one and will make it a regular purchase now. This is authentic japanese green tea with all the benefits you may expect from it. If you try to buy the same in supermarkets, chances are, you will end up with a "westernized" version - ie less strong because that's not what we are used to here in Europe. Whereas this - it's EXACTLY what you would drink in Japan. Leaves are cultivated there and I suspect, it is boxed with the same strong quality as in Japan with no attempt to make it weaker by blending in other leaves. It is pure sencha and you will feel the distinct buzz it gives you along with this heating of the body while increasing the rate of your metabolism!

Very good tea

I looked it up, y'all. Japanese sencha generally has a seaweedy note. Or chicken, for those of us who don't eat much seaweed. Those other guys aren't messing with you. However, the taste is quite nice. The chickeniness isn't overpowering, but is a surprisingly smell to be hit with when you first pour the water in. Good sized leaves as well. I didn't see an explicit mention of leaf size, so I was worried, but there's nothing falling through the basket. Good quality. I would probably prefer not having the chickeny note, but that's more a preference thing than a quality thing. The tea has a sort of tennis ball yellow hue if you care about that sort of thing. Clearer looking than some other green teas I've had.

I bought this brand of Sencha Tea because Amazon was out of stock of the one I have been buying over the last year. I actually prefer this one and instead of coming in a ziplock bag, this comes in a nice metal cannister with an airtight inner lid as well as a tight fitting inner lid. The tea itself comes in a plastic bag within the container. If you like Sencha Tea I definitely recommend this brand. Edited to add a comment because I saw a review where someone said it was hard to get rid of the tea leaves. I use a clear square based teapot with a built in metal strainer (bought on Amazon) and I find a teaspoon of tea makes 1-2 pots, where 1 pot makes 2 full mugs of tea. I refill the pot after it's emptied and the 2nd filling is still good. To dispose of the tea leaves, I fill the pot with cold water, then dump it on the garden, swirling the water around and that gets rid of most of the leaves. Alternatively just add it to your compost bin.