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Caffeine: Low-Medium
China: Fujian
Type: Oolong

Infuse: 1 tbs per cup; use near boiling water;
this tea can be infused 7-10 times
Drink: Morning or afternoon

Appearance
Dry leaf: Huge, light, spidery yet weighty twists of whole dark leaf
Infusion: large, soft leaves, varying from deep green to copper-brown in colour
Colour of the infusion: deep russet-red to light walnut liquor

Aroma
Sweet and perfumed, with a mixture of violet-petal scents and delicate tangerine citrus.
Seamless harmony of floral and fruit scents of great intricacy: violet and peach blossom meets tangerine and russet apple. There’s a gingery back-note, too. Magnificent complexity.

Taste
Pure, complex and refined, with soft, creamy backnotes and close-textured flavours whose summer-fruit enchantment tapers away to something more gingery, deeper and grippier. Long aftertaste hinting at incense wood.

Produced in Fujian

Fujian Province, China