This tea can hardly be compared to other sencha using the common vocabulary. There are flavor notes here that are so delicately floral/fruity/malty and etherial I am still struggling to find a vocabulary. But taste being on the bud of the beholder, my main reason for co...(more)

Hibiki-an's Sencha Premium is an excellent, clean sencha. A little pricey for an "everyday" tea, but worth the premium price for special occasions. This is a well-rounded tea with moderate astringency, and nice grassy and floral notes. A "polite," pl...(more)

I am pleased to be the (apparent) first to write a review for this fine tea. I have sampled several gyokuros from various vendors and Hibiki-an offers a very fine value in their Gyokuro Premium. The flavor of a fine Gyokuro is as distinct from sencha as sencha is from b...(more)