Davidson's Tea Bulk, Sencha, 16-Ounce Bag

Davidson's Sencha tea is the tea I use to make Jun Tea, a fermented tea that's healthy, bubbly, and delicious. The recipe includes Sencha green tea and honey. I'm very satisfied with Davidson's Sencha tea.

It has the green tea taste that I like. When brewed as recommended, it is less astringent than some Sencha teas, which I like, but it is a little weak flavored. When brewed too strong, it does become bitter. I'm still experimenting to get the right balance.

Decent tea. Arrived fresh but lacked potency. 4 stars because it is the best price around and it is organic apparently. The aroma is quite strong but the taste lacks.

Very good Tea ! I have some Japanese Sencha from a previous order left, and yet to compare between that and this brand. Based on memory it seemed the direct from Japan tea was more bitter. Maybe it was the amount I used. Regardless this a great value and enjoying it. One thing for sure, the caffeine level is up there. At least for me. I had a couple mugs (not cups) in the afternoon and had trouble sleeping lol. Now just having one mug and seems better. A great break to sit down and have some tea !

I recently purchased Davidson's gun powder green tea and I was very happy with the quality and taste. I decided to try their loose leaf sencha after being pleased with the quality of the gunpowder green. I should have purchased the gunpowder again, the sencha is very low quality. It looks and smells like finely mulched grass clippings. Even if I double the loose leaf tea and steep with boiling water for 10 minutes the water still looks fresh and has very little flavor.

I've had many different green teas, and each one has a little bit different flavor profile. Recently, I enjoyed an amazing loose leaf green tea at a sushi restaurant and was told "sencha" which I don't really know what that is, but I found this loose leaf sencha tea. It's not quite the same as what I had at the restaurant, but wow, it's really great! The leaves smell wonderful out of the packet, and I learned quickly after the first pot that the leaves really expand as they steep. You really don't need much to make a nice pot of tea. I prefer it steeped a bit longer than recommended, and it didn't go bitter. It's nice enough to drink unsweetened, though I added some fresh honey and it was perfect. The size of the bag is large enough to last me a long time. I don't know what the shelf life will be, but the bag itself has a really nice built-in zip closure. It feels very air-tight, and the bag is opaque/foil lined so I think it will keep the leaves fresh for a very long time. The printed "Best By" date is 2 years which is more than enough time to use it all up.

This is very good sencha tea. Not quite true "mountain tea," but very good at just a mere fraction of the cost. The leaf cut is large, which is good for retaining leaves in a tea ball or other strainer. It's my go-to sencha. I use this tea primarily to mix with my own home roasted sweet brown rice to make my own favorite Genmaicha blend. (It's easy to do - directions online - and well worth the substantial savings over pricey commercial blends.)

This is an acceptable tea for the price. I normally drink sencha from another online retailer that costs a little more than twice as much as this. The overall quality of that sencha is definitely better than Davidson's: the leaves are greener, there are many fewer stems, and there is less dust. There is no better way to say this: this is *not* a "fine tea." It not premium grade, it is clearly remainders. In order to get about the same amount of flavor, I typically mix three teaspoons to 16 ounces of water (instead of 2 teaspoons from the other tea). Even then, the overall taste is still inferior, it is not as grassy as a good green--but I didn't find my batch as awful as some people claim to have found it. Maybe I just got a good bag. I will say that unlike higher quality teas, the "second cup" is noticeably much blander (second cup is resteeped tea using the same leaves). That being said, the cost differential isn't huge, with Davidson's being about 25% less costly for a slightly less tasty but acceptable tea. Who it's for: People who want to drink green tea regularly, don't want to break the bank, and aren't extremely particular about the taste. Over the course of a year, this tea is about $120 cheaper than what I typically buy. People who have been using green tea bags from the grocery store (which are more expensive and less flavorful than Davidson's) and would like to step up into the world of loose leaf tea without breaking the bank. Who it's not for: Tea snobs. People with very particular tastes (which is not the same thing as a tea snob). People who don't care about costs. People who like to resteep. About me: I lived in Japan, and I've been drinking green tea my whole life. I buying everything ranging from cheap greens like this Davidson, to $100/pound gyukuros. I prefer greens that are fully grassy and a little sharp (for a green, which would be "very bland" for a black tea drinker). For comparison purposes, I steep all my greens for 3 minutes at the same temperature (and resteep at lunch for 5 minutes).