Thick, glycerous, tongue-coating flavours of understated richness. The flavour repertoire includes burnt almond, minerals, apricot leaf and sandalwood. The aftertaste is firmly structured, yet camouflaged by the tea’s enveloping textural richness. Finishing perfumes hint at the tea’s fresh, sappy, tea-garden origins.

 

A great example of veyr rich flavoured oolong tea.


Caffeine
Low-Medium
China
Fujian
Type
Oolong
Infuse
Infuse 1 tbs per cup; use near boiling water;
this tea can be infused 7-10 times
Drink
Morning or afternoon

Appearance
Dry leaf:
Weighty, close-textured twists of deep black-brown leaf
Infusion: Thick twists of almost-black leaf
Colour of the infusion: Deep rowan-brown liquor


Aroma
Complex blend of earth, ground metal, ash and cinder.
Rooty scents of warm earth and charcoal, overlaid with a lighter meadow sweetness and ground almond richness


Taste
Thick, glycerous, tongue-coating flavours of understated richness. The flavour repertoire includes burnt almond, minerals, apricot leaf and sandalwood. The aftertaste is firmly structured, yet camouflaged by the tea’s enveloping textural richness. Finishing perfumes hint at the tea’s fresh, sappy, tea-garden origins.


Produced in Fujian

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Fujian Province, China