Green Tea
Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) in gin: grassy, vegetal, slightly bitter. Found in 6 gins on The Giniverse.
Adds dry, grassy tannins (sencha, gyokuro, gunpowder).
Tea leaves that are never oxidised, born in China. In Japan, sencha is the everyday tea, while gyokuro is shaded for about three weeks before picking, which makes it sweeter.