Japanese Sencha Shin Ryoku is a premium Sencha from Honyama, Shizuoka - Japan. One of the best senchas and this is a green that is described as more seaweed like as against grassy. Close to a Gyokuro but much lower price. You can vary the taste dramatically by the temperature of the water and brewing time. A typical infusion is in a 165 degree water temperature and 40 seconds.

• half ounce bag makes approximately 4 cups.
  
  Premium Sencha from Honyama, Shizuoka - Japan
  
  

English Tealeaves sells over 125 high quality teas that are "cherry picked" from over 15 suppliers who specialize in specific types and countries. This gives us the flexibility to find the best of the best. We also blend around 8 teas ourselves that can't be obtained to our standards. For example our #1 selling tea, English Breakfast is our own blend that we created in 2002.

Our Cafe customers give feedback and we discontinue the ones that get poor ratings. We also look to improve our teas and will replace a standard tea, like say Mango, with a higher quality blend from another supplier.

The teas are selected after evaluation in these seven areas and then the scores are weighted to decide if they qualify for inclusion in our range:

• Dry leaves appearance
• Dry aroma
• Brewed Infusion Color
• Aroma brewed
• Hot taste
• Iced taste
• After taste

We always have 3 tasters compare notes and decide if it should be included in our range.


This is our custom produced bags that are of a high quality and keep the flavor in with a good Ziploc fastener: