more other choices?
HI, there
When we talked about black tea, we all know that Black tea is the most common type of tea in the West. And there are different types of black tea in the world ranging from blended and flavored teabags to handmade, artisan, loose-leaf teas. I just know some famous and common black tea, such as Darjeeling Black Tea, Keemun Black Tea, Assam Black Tea, Yunnan Black Tea, Ceylon Black Tea, Earl Grey Black Tea, Nilgiri Black Tea, Lapsang Souchong Black Tea, and Taiwanese Black Teas. Any other types of black tea do you know?
There are tons. There is tea grown in many places we may never hear of because it is mostly used in blends but places that are marketing orthodox black and Estate teas can be found all over the world. In India alone tea is grown in many states some others outside those listed above are teas from Arunchal Pradesh, and teas from Himachael Pradesh ( Kangra valley). Teas are being marketed as Estate teas from Africa especially from Kenya and Rwanda. There is goreanna in the Azores (Portugal). Nepali tea is also relatively easy to find. There are commercial tea estates in the US, Columbia, and New Zealand that sell as Estate teas. There are teas produces in Russia and several of the ex countries of the USSR. There are also black teas produces and marketed in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan well all over. Within China off the top of my head I have had black teas from Shandong ( Laoshan and Rizhao ). Hunan, Fujian province ( outside of Lapsang, there are many including jinjunmei, Wuyi wild black tea, bailing gongfu, Tanyang, zhenghe gongfu etc.), guanxi ( bai Hao hongcha ) Henan ( Xingyang Hong cha) Hainan, Yixing Hong cha Yingde hongcha teas from Szechuan etc. You get the picture there is a lot out there.
There are more different kinds of local teas around the world,we know a litter in addition to tea of the market. For me, I am quite strange with teas from Southeast Asia, and what we know and contact are mostly from China and Weatern countires. Thank you for your comemnts!
Indonesia is a major tea producer, as is Turkey. South Korea was missed on this comment list, and I’ve had black tea from Cambodia, but they don’t make much, and what I tried was kind of so-so. That one small producer in Brazil is getting mentioned more lately, but then once you get down to one farm making a limited amount of tea the number of source countries expands. Once you include Earl Grey to stick with that convention you might include any number of flavored teas or blends; maybe as well to just stick to origin sources and distinct plain tea styles. I tried a compressed Yunnan sun dried black not long ago, not so different than a standard Dian Hong, but presented differently, with a different effect.
What the varieties of tea you mentioned is beyond my knowledge.
Are you local? Because you know more and have a lot of researches about tea from there.
I live in Thailand, so I’m local in that sense, but I’m from the US. I write a blog about tea so I end up writing about everything I try, and try a lot of things to write about while we travel. I’ve been to most of the major producer countries in Asia, just not to India, Sri Lanka, or Nepal, and Nepal might not be considered major related to volume yet. Really China is enough to know about, with more variety there than it would be practical for any one person to be familiar with. The most novel tea that I’ve tried—in terms of origin—was from North Korea, a country that’s very difficult to get tea from, so isolated that it’s easy to miss that they produce it.
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I don’t doubt that you had a hard time finding tea from North Korea. I don’t think they have trade relations with very many countries and going there is very dangerous for an American even if you are not doing anything wrong by the standards of the North Korean government.
I’d love to see North Korea, even if you would only see what they want to show you, with a guide by your side making sure of that. I’m not sure it would be a good idea to go there now. It would probably still be safe, but if something strange came up you could move straight into the role of hostage, and they may never give you back. As for finding the tea, the internet simply doesn’t go there, so any direct online exploration is completely out. A Chinese tour guide company picked it up for me.
Contact Tea and Whisk, they have Indonesian honey oolong. African Hei cha and white tea.
Tealeat carries Nepal white, and brown oolong. Also Hawaiian rainforest white. See TeaDB for full reviews of this tea.
Tea DB did an episode with the flavor profile of Rainforest white and nepal white, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3izpJndHac&t=130s
You already know many kinds of tea, for me,I really dont know so many types of black tea.
I live in Yunnan, and I love Yunnan black tea. Superior yunnan black tea is simply awesome. I am from fujian, Fujian Rock black tea or Yan Tea is also a good option. but some good ones are extremely expensive.
Just take a look at Yunnan Sourcing’s website and look at the choices he has for Yunnan Black tea, quite a lot.
I love Laoshan black tea. It’s the most chocolatey tea I’ve ever had. Verdant specializes in this but Yunnan Sourcing also carries it.
I never drink about that tea, what about the flavor?
Is the color like chocolate or?
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