Using up old Sensha

In my experience, first flush Darjeeling deteriorates relatively quickly (even if my storage was, in fact, to blame, the other teas weren't as affected).

Well, 6 years is incredibly old for a green, however, I'd like to make the general suggestion on this thread to try making iced tea out of old leaves. Older leaves tend to lose their more subtle and delicate flavors, which don't come out so well in iced tea anyway. Just a thought ...

My experience is that any black works well for iced tea, but greens seldom do. I do keep trying, though. Toci

Right, my lone Darjeeling sample is slated to be used up in April. Toci

Has six year old sencha also gone from a grassy taste to a flower taste, or is even that gone? Toci

I really love iced Sencha in summer! the trick is not to infuse the tee and then let it cool of, but to infuse it with cold water (best would be just putting teal leafs and icecubes into a pot, and pour out some tea after enough water has melted). Alternatively you can just add cold water and let it "steep" in the fridge for 20 minutes or so... :)

I finished the old sencha. I might try this with some other Japanese teas I bought at the same time. Toci

works of course varyingly well with varying tees, but i had quite good results with sencha... i also would recommend serving chilled black chocolate with it :)