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Ruby 18 from TeaSource

Steepster Score 2 Ratings Rate This Tea

75/100

Ruby 18

Black Tea by TeaSource

This gold medal winning black tea from Taiwan brews up extremely smooth, rich, and slightly sweet. It is a cross between the Assam tea plant and the native Taiwan Chin Shin cultivar.

1 Tasting Note

nvnohi
67

Very good tea with slightly malty assam notes, yet not really assam-like. Hard to describe. A bit expensive to me, since I like other teas better that are cheaper, but I’d drink it any time. Did mine in a typical mesh infuser, 21oz boiling water in Adagio personaliTEA teapot, 2 tablespoons of tea, maybe 3 minutes. I accidentally left it about 7 minutes the other day and it did NOT GET BITTER!! In fact it was better than I’d remembered…