This is the sencha that I have been drinking almost every day for the past few weeks. I found it in a health food store downtown in Montreal, near the McGill campus. It was on sale, so I thought I’d give it a try, instead of ordering Japanese tea online (as I often do). It is labeled ‘Sencha-Uchiyama’ by R. Uchiyama (who was born in Japan to tea-farming parents, and has a shop in Montreal which I cannot find!) and was grown in Kawane, Japan. It is a second harvest tea (which is why it wasn’t very expensive) and I bought it in an 100g tin, at $16 CDN for 100g.
Don’t let the blah photo fool you, I’m really happy with this tea. However, the camera and I are having issues. The smell and taste of this sencha remind me of ‘Sencha Ashikubo’ which I have purchased a few times from Camellia Sinensis, a wonderful Montreal tea house/shop. The taste of the tea itself is basically that of a typical middle-of-the-road sencha–it is not too bitter, a bit sweet, and vegetal without being grassy. What makes it similar to ‘Sencha Ashikubo’ is that they both have a wonderful aroma of tropical fruit in their dry form. It’s worth buying this tea for the smell alone!
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