Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black from Butiki Teas

Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Honey, Sweet Potatoes, Apple Candy, Caramel, Tea, Apricot, Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Butter, Cinnamon, Dried Fruit, Grain, Pastries, Raisins, Fruity, Sweet, Bread, Yams, Chocolate, Stonefruit, Cocoa, Malt, Vanilla, Cream, Smooth
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Caffeine
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Certification
Not available
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec 5 g 9 oz / 269 ml

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Our Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black originates from indigenous wild tea plants grown between 2,500 feet and 5,000 feet in the surrounding mountains of Yuchi Township in Taiwan. The tea picking season for this tea is July through August and the supply is limited because the tea is wild. During this time, the tea master will wake up around 4 a.m. to travel the mountains with local tea pickers in search of wild tea. Similar to our Gui Fei Oolong and… Read more

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I’m sure I have reviewed this one before. Odd. I think Steepster has eaten some of my notes because there are other teas I have made notes on that didn’t show on later steeps.

Anyway, this is a good tea. It is smooth for a black, with no bitterness or astringency. There are light cocoa and raisin notes to me, with a bit of sweetness. It’s really a nice straight black tea. This is one that I can have without milk…though I did sweeten a little.

Thanks to CrowKettle for letting me try this little bit of gold. It’s really tasty.
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Funny thing…

I was actually getting done posting my write-up about this tea (which you can find here: http://steepstories.com/2014/02/25/taiwans-wild-side-big-brass-butikis-round-1/) when I thought to myself, Oh yeah! I should brew up some of that! First time that’s ever happened. So, for my way-to-work tea, I brewed some of this up.

SO much going on here – cocoa, malt, mint…uh…awesomeness. I seriously wish I had more of the stuff. It has all the features I adore in Taiwanese black teas plus a little roughness behind the edges – like porno hair. (Wait ,no!)

Flavors: Cocoa, Malt

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
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Ysaurella 11 years ago

delicious tea. To me it’s more honey and candied fruit but I love it so much I ordered 8 oz….I don’t want to get out of stock of this one

Butiki Teas 11 years ago

Hahaha. Love love love this tea, especially at 30 second steeps. One of these days, I’m going to have to coerce you to try one of our flavored teas.

Geoffrey Norman 11 years ago

@Ysaurella – I did compare it to a Yunnan Dian Hong for that very reason, actually! Good catch on the honey.

@Butiki – I would try one of the flavored teas IF it has an interesting origin story. :-)

Butiki Teas 11 years ago

Hmmmm, well I’m biased and like to think that most of the teas have interesting origin stories but here are a few ones I like:

With Open Eyes (strawberry, toffee, ginger, buttery dragon well)-based off of a painting and the tea had to be completely made in less then a week (usually takes months to fully complete a tea) for a project that consists of 130 artists and that tea is the inspiration for a Wes Craven Character/plot. More info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/consenses. Just not sure if that tea would be your jam.

Hello Sweetie-Coconut, Toffee, praline, banana, Premium Taiwanese Assam. Really fun custom blend that took both me and the customer down a random path. James was initially looking for a coconut cream pie puerh.

Watermelon Xylophone-Came up with the name after hours on a trip to pretty much nowhere.

Foxy Roxy’s Banana Walnut Treat-A random customer mention while we were having an email conversation, which just happened to be at the same time I was working on a banana tea and decided to make a sample based on her ideas.

I like the stories behind pretty much everything except maybe a few of our older staple teas. Right now I’m working with my mother-in-law on a special tea based off of a Philippino dessert.

Geoffrey Norman 11 years ago

@Butiki – You had me at strawberries, Dragonwell and Wes Craven.

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It’s been too long since I’ve had this tea. It was one of the first teas I ordered after joining Steepster, and it was <3 at first sip.
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5 g 14 OZ / 414 ML
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It seems not bad.
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This tea has a very clear natural honey sweet smell mixed with a little cocoa and a hint of maltiness.

Very smooth, little to no astringency/bitterness. A light sweet taste with cocoa at the back of the palette.

On my resteep I tried adding milk and sugar for the first time and to my surprise it brought out a different dimension in the tea. A tea that’s enjoyable no matter how you have it.

Flavors: Cocoa, Honey

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
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