You don’t expect a green tea at this price point to significantly arouse your senses. At $2.49 for 48 tea bags, you’re sacrificing the distinctiveness of a single garden estate tea for the smoothness and consistency of a blend.
From my enlightened, middle-aged point of view, tea is tea. Yes, some teas are more special than others, but most are worthy enough for a short timeout on the sofa, contemplating life and meditating while sitting cross-legged and occasionally shifting.
The instructions say to leave the water off the boil for a minute, a sign that Trader Joe’s understands the delicateness of green tea and cares about the final result. My kettle has temperature control, so I set it to 185° Fahrenheit (85° Celsius).
The green tea leaves in the teabag seem larger than the fannings you find in other tea bags. This may explain why the tea appears clear as opposed to cloudy which is so often the case with tea bags.
Trader Joe’s Green Tea has a faint grassy aroma with a smooth and buttery mouthfeel. You can do better, but you could certainly do a lot worse. I could brew another one (or two or three) and take myself back to the sofa to watch a Yasujiro Ozu film.
does this tea have caffein?
This tea is from China one of your Trader Joe’s reps told me, can you tell me specifically where it’s produced. Also why are you not required to put this information on your packaging., is that even legal????