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Hong Yu(Red Jade) Taiwanese black tea (AKA Red Jade Black Tea #18) from Zi Chun Tea Co

Steepster Score 4 Ratings Rate This Tea

83/100

Hong Yu(Red Jade) Taiwanese black tea (AKA Red Jade Black Tea #18)

Black Tea by Zi Chun Tea Co

A high quality organic black tea – this unique tea was developed & refined by the Taiwan tea research station. It is a cross between an Assam strain from Burma & a local wild strain. A truly great tea.
A noticeable cinnamon aroma and carries a subtle, but pleasant mint flavor.

5 Tasting Notes

LiberTEAS
97

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me some of this tea!

It is awesome! Definitely one of the very best black teas I’ve ever tasted. I think this may even be better than Dawn from Simple Leaf! It has some of the cocoa tones of Dawn, and it is incredibly rich. Sweet and bold. Malty. Incredible. YUM!

Tea Sipper
81
Tea Sipper 2 tasting notes

Thanks to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me this and so many other amazing teas! I’ll be writing tasting notes for a while for them! This one was odd to me, since it didn’t taste like a typical black tea. It had more of a vegetal flavor.. asparagus? Not in a bad way. The second steep somehow tasted more like the usual assam. Good stuff!

Additional notes: Sipdown! I think that might be the first time I get to say that. There was a bit left in a not-very-sealed package. Somehow this was completely different from the last cup. It was much more like a black tea instead of anything like asparagus. I actually forgot I thought it tasted like that, but the flavor is much more how I wanted it to be! Nice! It’s more sweet malty with a bit of cocoa this time. I have no idea why the flavor changed so much. Maybe because I had similar teas for the first time since I first tried this one? I’m going to miss this one! I’m uping the rating!

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TeaEqualsBliss
96
TeaEqualsBliss 2 tasting notes

This is SO amazing on SO many levels!

It smells a little like tomato soup and/or tomato bread…I LOVE the aroma! The taste is toasty, creamy, malty, a mellow black tea, meets a hint of cherry tomato type undertone but then changes up and evens out. By the after taste I can find that mint note they say lingers…it’s so amazingly different I can’t NOT like this one!

WOW! Nice!!!!

Gosh I LOVE this tea! I only have a very little bit left after this cuppa. The naturally cinnamony, chocolatey, notes are amazing! The malty-ness is RIGHT ON! YUM!

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