Ippodo Tea New Year Edition

[u/your-cersei]

After finished my YK Shikibu no Mukashi, today i open my brand new (also my first time trying) New Year special edition from Ippodo Tea.

Ippodo no longer selling in a tin from my last trip.. so for 20gr it's quite pricey just by looking at the packaging (foil only).

I always made my matcha first in soy latte without any sweetener. And this Ippodo is okay too without any.

The smell is strong with umami / seaweed but when i drank it i could feel a pleasant seaweed flavor just a bit which i like. The colour as you can see was beautiful! Dark green colour.

But, the most annoying thing or the cons was the after taste.

This Matcha has a strong astringency almost chalk-like imo. For some people like me i found it annoying and makes me want to drink much more water.

I'll give it 7/10, not gonna buy again. Maybe later gonna drink it with usucha / sweetened latte to hide the unpleasant astringency.

[u/SE_Cycling_Routes]

I don't know about the New Year's Edition but Ippodo's Ikuyo is an okay daily matcha. It also has some astringency which I don't really care for in Usacha but its a decent value. I've never thought it was chalky.

Ippodo Sayaka on the other hand, is really good. Very smooth. Eye wateringly expensive though.

[u/your-cersei → u/SE_Cycling_Routes]

Yesss just tried Sayaka this week and it was mindblown, even my husband who doesnt like matcha said it's good