Tea finder
Nine filters over 137 teas. Every result tells you why it matched, in words you can check against the tea's own page.
73 teas match
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Unusually sweet and savoury for a Chinese green tea, closer in that respect to a Japanese shaded tea than to Longjing, while retaining a pan-fired cleanness.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Among the sweetest and least bitter green teas made anywhere, with a savoury depth that comes from unusually high amino-acid content.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Livelier and rougher than finished sencha, with more sweetness from the stems and more astringency from the fines. Its interest is that it shows what refining actually removes.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Clear, bright and aromatic, with more distinct top notes and less body than deep-steamed sencha.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Light, hay-like and undemanding, with little of sencha’s marine intensity. Its value is in being drinkable by the litre rather than in complexity.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Fruity and floral in a way few green teas manage, with a very fine downy texture in the cup from the bud hairs. Fragile: a few degrees too hot and the fruit turns to hay.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Strongly jasmine, over a soft Sichuan green base. The visible flowers are the regional signature rather than a sign of poor scenting.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Substantial rather than fresh. Judged against Longjing it reads as coarse; judged as what it is — a green tea built to hold up under mint, sugar and repeated pouring — it does its job better than a Chinese green would.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
The balance point of Japanese green tea: enough body to be satisfying, enough clarity to taste the cultivar.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Fuller and coarser than ujeon, and more robust than delicate. Sold beside the early pickings it looks like the poor relation; used for what it is good at — cold brewing, iced tea, everyday volume — it outperforms them.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Grassy and floral together. Anyone who knows first-flush Darjeeling will recognise the aroma immediately and then find the copper and the astringency missing from underneath it.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Sharper and more mineral than the famous Zhejiang greens, with a floral top note. The heavy leaf down clouds the liquor, which is characteristic rather than a fault.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Marine and savoury like a Japanese tea, with a chestnut sweetness underneath that is unmistakably Chinese. The best single tea for demonstrating that steam-versus-pan matters more than country.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Deep green, opaque and thick, with far more body and far less aroma than ordinary sencha. The cloudiness is the point — the fine particles in suspension carry most of what makes the style worth choosing.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Toasted and comforting, with the rice doing most of the aromatic work. The story that it was a wartime economy measure is widely repeated and poorly evidenced; what is clear is that the rice reduces the cost per cup.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Notably floral for a Chinese green, with a sweetness that lingers longer than the light body suggests.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Blunt, brisk and faintly smoky — a long way from delicate. The tight rolling keeps it fresher than open-leafed greens for far longer, which is why it travels and stores well.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Softer and rounder than sencha, with markedly less astringency because the leaf was never rolled hard.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Thick and almost broth-like, with very little astringency and a sweetness that arrives before anything else. The clearest teaching case in tea for what umami actually means in a cup.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Roasty and gently sweet with essentially no astringency — the Japanese green tea for people who dislike green tea, and a common evening choice for exactly that reason.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Extraordinarily delicate given the size of the leaf, with an orchid aroma and almost no astringency.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Remarkably sweet with essentially no bitterness. It is a green tea despite the colour, and is frequently mis-sold as a yellow tea.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Softer and more floral than Longjing, with an orchid note that is the tea’s signature. Very low in astringency even when brewed carelessly.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Intensely jasmine without becoming soapy, which is the difference between real scenting and added flavouring.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Intensely floral over a soft green base. The most widely drunk scented tea in the world, and one where the gap between a well-made version and a cheap one is immediately obvious.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Nutty and clean, closer to Longjing than to anything else, and honest about being a recent invention.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Fuller and grainier than the earlier grades, and the honest everyday Korean green tea.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
The practical middle of Japanese green tea: most of gyokuro’s savoury depth at a fraction of the price, and far less punishing to brew than gyokuro’s near-cold water and enormous leaf quantity.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Rounder and sweeter than Uji sencha, with a vivid green colour that comes from the cultivars rather than from deeper steaming.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Roasted and nutty rather than marine — the clearest proof available that Japan’s characteristic green-tea flavour comes from steaming, not from Japan.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Sweet and creamy with almost no astringency — a by-product tea that outperforms a good deal of what it was sorted out of.
Brewing: 6 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Strong, brisk and deliberately blunt, extracting almost instantly because the particles are so small. Judged as sencha it is coarse; judged as what it is, it is very good value.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Nutty and mild, sitting between Chinese pan-fired sweetness and a faint Japanese savouriness. Earlier pickings are lighter and more floral; later ones are fuller and more robust.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Lighter and sweeter than leaf hojicha, with a caramel note and essentially no bitterness at any brewing strength.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Soft, sweet and creamy, with almost none of the grip of leaf tea. Karigane — kukicha made from gyokuro stems — is markedly richer and worth the difference in price.
Brewing: 4 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Smoke without weight. It reads as a smoked tea and behaves as a very light one, which is why it is drunk in quantity and late in the evening.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Markedly thicker and beanier than a Jiangnan green of comparable price. Anyone who has only met Longjing and Bi Luo Chun will find it heavier and less delicate, which is the point rather than a shortcoming.
Brewing: 2 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Fuller-bodied and more toasted than other Chinese greens, because the material is mature leaf and the finish is over charcoal. A useful counterexample for anyone who thinks green tea means bud-heavy and delicate.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
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Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Nutty and sweet with a soft body and very little grip. Where Japanese greens go marine and savoury, Longjing goes toasted and sweet — the clearest single illustration of what pan-firing does that steaming does not.
Brewing: 5 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Recommended because
- It is a green tea, which you chose.
Fuller-bodied than most Chinese greens with a savoury depth usually associated with shading. The mountain’s cloud cover is the traditional explanation and is recorded here as such rather than as a demonstrated mechanism.
Brewing: 3 authored styles — open in the brew assistant
Journeys through these teas
- Moving beyond tea bags — Someone comfortable with loose black tea who has never tried the other categories.
- Exploring green tea — Someone who wants to understand green tea rather than tolerate it.
- Discover Japanese tea — Someone who has had sencha or matcha and wants the rest of the picture.
- Understanding matcha — Someone who drinks matcha lattes, or has bought a tin and a whisk, and wants to know what the thing actually is.
Comparisons covering your results
- Green tea styles compared — Five green teas spanning steamed and pan-fired, shaded and unshaded, roasted and fresh. The fixation method splits this category more than any origin does.
- Hojicha vs genmaicha — Two toasty Japanese green teas sold side by side, whose toastiness comes from entirely different places. One is roasted after processing; the other has roasted rice blended into unroasted leaf, and the distinction changes what each is good for.
- Longjing vs Anji Bai Cha — Two flat-leaf Zhejiang green teas that look similar and taste quite different. One difference is shaping; the other is a cultivar mutation that changes the chemistry of the leaf.
- Hojicha vs Bancha — Hojicha is made from bancha, so they are not alternatives so much as before and after. Roasting is the only step between them and it changes almost everything.
- Longjing vs Bi Luo Chun — The two most famous Chinese green teas, both from the lower Yangtze, both hand-shaped, and shaped in opposite directions.
What every filter is measured against
- Tea family302/302 teas
- Flavour profile302/302 teas
- Aroma302/302 teas
- Mouthfeel302/302 teas
- Intensity302/302 teas
- Complexity302/302 teas
- Appreciation level302/302 teas
- Brewing method302/302 teas
- Experience level302/302 teas
A filter is only offered when every published tea carries the field. A partially populated facet ranks by who happened to have a value, and the reader cannot see what was dropped.
What is deliberately not here
- Caffeine level — 11/302 teas have a measured estimate
Filtering on it would silently exclude most of the catalogue. Category is not a substitute: matcha and gyokuro carry more caffeine than many black teas.
- Umami — 45/302 teas have the axis authored
Genuinely meaningful for shaded Japanese greens and rarely assessed elsewhere, so it cannot join the intensity model without skewing it toward one origin.
- Health goals — sleep, energy, digestion — no field exists
Nothing in the model records what a tea is for, by design. These require the evidence-backed health layer and its human review, which is not signed.
This finder describes what a tea is. It has no field for what a tea is for, so it cannot answer questions about sleep, energy or digestion — and would rather say that than guess.