Lingjing tastes like sweet corn with rather nutty undertones, nothing grassy
in my stock. Now my Japanese sencha OTOH is very grassy and twiggy.


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> "Joseph Kubera" > wrote in message
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> > Grassy as a descriptor can be negative or positive, I think. Good
> Japanese tea
> > can be grassy in the best sense -- think lushly aromatic, fresh grass
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> Sometimes Longjing reminds me of spinach or vegetable stock, so grassy
> taste I don't believe is unique to Japanese tea.
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> I haven't tried any sencha tea. I tried genmaicha a few times, and it's
> not bad- not really grassy, but it's not 100 percent tea either.
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> I really preffer a bit of astringency to grassy tastes.
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