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Autumn Tie Guan Yin from Gan De village in Anxi county was carefully picked and then roasted by hand over pine wood charcoal. The process is repeated many times until the tea has been heavily roasted and becomes almost black in color. The result is a highly aromatic tea that can be infused more than 10 times without losing much flavor. The tea soup is a bright red color and the taste is sweet and full with kind of chocolatey after-finish.
I bought this tea thinking of getting more chocolate notes out of an Oolong. This is a good tea that I greatly appreciate. It has the buttery sweet nuttiness of the TGY with a heavier maltier base. The chocolate is lighter than Da Hong Pao and its missing some of that smoky maltiness that identifies it.
It takes several infusions with out problem and good if you want something with chocolate roasted hints with out being over powering.
