Honey Black

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Chocolate, Dark Wood, Honey, Malt, Sweet, Tannic, Bread, Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Caramelized Sugar, Dried Fruit, Floral, Green Beans, Raisins, Roasted, Rye, Savory, Smooth, Sweet Potatoes, Thick, Vegetal, Wheat, Earth, Green, Wood, Salty, Broth
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Kosher
Edit tea info Last updated by bree
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec 5 g 10 oz / 289 ml

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How it tastes
Bold and very rich, with deep lingering notes of sweet dark honey

A seriously special treat. To create this luxurious and flavorful premium black tea from the east coast of Taiwan, each gold-tipped leaf is hand-plucked and twisted, for a stunning tea that looks just as beautiful as it tastes. Our favorite part? A sweet and lingering hint of dark honey in every sip. Now that is sweet.

What makes it great
• This premium black tea is hand-made with a beautiful twisted leaf style with golden tips.
• Black tea is high in caffeine, meaning it’s packed with energizing benefits that’ll help boost alertness.
• Black tea production in Taiwan is very limited – we were very lucky to get our hands on this tea!

Ingredients: Black tea from the east coast of Taiwan

About DAVIDsTEA View company

DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

39 Tasting Notes

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47 tasting notes

I got this as my frequent steeper reward. I was like mwahahaha, I’m getting a $17 tea for free! Still, I feel nervous about drinking a tea so expensive. And while it’s good and I can tell it’s good quality, I don’t think I’d buy it for the price. It’s not mind-blowingly amazing. I definitely get the sweet lingering taste at the end but I don’t actually taste it as honey, per se. Just a general sweet flavor.

Maybe fancy blacks aren’t my thing, and I’ll just stick to flavored teas.

Flavors: Malt, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML

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1758 tasting notes

Mostly getting a note of malt here. The honey note, maybe a little. This is reasonably nice but not spectacular.

Brewed this one time in a 16oz Teavana Glass Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and boiling water for 4 min.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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8 tasting notes

Nice. Just getting into tea, but this is in the top 5 so far. First and second steeps very pleasant with a little raw honey and a bit of milk.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 0 OZ / 0 ML

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3 tasting notes

Gorgeous flavor, doesn’t need sweetener or milk. The honey flavor is so subtle and unexpected that it livens the whole experience. Magnificent tea.

Flavors: Earth, Green, Honey, Wood

Preparation
6 min, 15 sec
Elletea

I agree! Thanks for the glowing review.

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1040 tasting notes

Thanks OMGsrsly for sending me a sample of this Always interested in trying new straight black teas – thank you.

I’m going to be perfectly honest here – the worst thing about this tea is the price. It’s way too expensive for what it is. Sure it’s a nice Taiwan black – it’s mild with just a hint of honey, it’s pretty starchy (potato ish). For this price it should he oozing in honey notes. I have others that I like better that are about half the price.

Sil

i haven’t tried it yet but that’s kinda what i figured it would be like..

Dexter

It’s fine – it’s totally drinkable but at 14.50/50g is should be more than that. I like the Hans Ecological one better and it’s way cheaper. IMHO

OMGsrsly

Yup. Definitely too expensive for what it is.

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1184 tasting notes

This is a decent straight black tea. I found this tea very malty. Being named “Honey black,” I was expecting the honey notes to be a little more prominent though. They were present, but very much in the background. There was also a little astringency, so I would maybe try brewing for only 3 minutes next time.

The price tag is a little high. This won’t be a cupboard staple for me but I wouldn’t refuse a cuppa this.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 4 min, 15 sec
Nicole

Have you had Beautiful Taiwan Tea’s Honey Black? Or Green Terrace’s? Curious if you could compare them.

tigress_al

Shoot Nicole, no I haven’t. Sorry

Nicole

I wonder if they are less expensive than David’s. Although shipping is always a factor if you are lucky enough to just be able to go to a David’s in person. :)

tigress_al

There is a DT at our downtown mall, so I generally drink a lot of their tea (it’s convenient)

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652 tasting notes

Made for me in a DavidsTea shop. I am guessing 1.25 tsp to 300mL water @96C. I steeped it five to six minutes, as I was in a mall and making my way to the parking lot.

The scent is very malty, reminding me of as Assam. The taste, however, has none of the heavy astringency of Assam, more the lighter and smoother body of a China black tea. Chasing the scent of malt is honey. Interestingly this tea does not develop a heavy body at all. Smooth and soothing and invigorating. I loved it.

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2291 tasting notes

So I finally got this tea. Finally. And I’m going to share the love. :)

5g in about 120ml water. Short steeps.

(Spoiler: I like the Honey Black and Li Shan Black from Green Terrace way better.)

This is… really carby. Like plain plantain chips. Astringent, even though I’m only doing short steeps. Malty. Fairly rich, because of the heavy carbs. But astringent. And not honey-sweet IMO. Not compared to other teas out there. There’s a bit of bite from spice at the back of the sip – maybe white pepper. It smells a lot like hay. I just dipped my nose in the mug, ick.

So while it’s not bad, there are others out there at a similar price point that are much tastier to me.

(195F for the rinse and first steep, 208F for subsequent steeps. I got… 4 steeps before I was done.)

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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1792 tasting notes

Well then, that was one of the most hectic Boxing Days I have ever experienced in my entire life. WEM was open at 7am this year. 7am! So glad I didn’t have to deal with that as an employee when I used to work there. Lineups were ridiculous. Some, at places like Michael Kors, wound all the way around the inner railing of the second floor, with upwards of 50, 60 people without any sign of the queue shrinking hours later.

I also couldn’t fall asleep last night, literally didn’t sleep for even a second, so I got annoyed, gave up, and got out of bed at 4:30am to start doing my hair and makeup. I’m so freaking tired.

Like Black Friday, I was able to get things that I wanted to get anyway but kept putting it off. The discount alleviates a little of that guilt. I ordered from DAVIDsTEA last night in order to snag a glass carafe for iced tea at 40% off. I’ve been looking for one for months but couldn’t find the right one, and this fit the bill. More Banana Split and a sprinkles Nordic mug also tagged along in that order.

I also visited three—THREE—DAVIDsTEAs in the city in order to track down some Cardamom French Toast chocolate. No such luck. I actually had two bars in my cart last night for the regular 2/$10 deal but deleted them hoping I’d find them on sale today. Of course every single store had the other chocolate bars, but not this one.

Scored some sweet tea deals at Holt Renfrew too, although I’m a little bummed I didn’t get a tin of Sloane’s Holt’s Blend. They had so many a few days ago, and I arrived there by 11am after the WEM craziness so that was a little sad.

I’m so rambling right now. Over 21k steps later, I’m finally back home and chilled to the bone hoping I’ll warm up with tea and an extra fluffy robe.

My recent, ongoing craving for chocolate orange has prompted me to sip down the last of this tea with a healthy teaspoon of orange fudge honey. That stuff actually exists thanks to that local gourmet honey company I’ve raved about in the past. It’s so delicious, and in this tea? Make that freaking delicious. This is the closest a tea has ever come to being the perfect chocolate orange tea, at least for me. It’s cheating, but I don’t care. That malty sweet base pairs so well with the citrus and cocoa notes.

Sil

what were the deals like at HR on tea? Also, i totally forgot about trying to get those chocolate bars until you said this :(

Sil

also..orange fudge honey…excuse me whaaaat? tell me more!

Evol Ving Ness

Yes! Everything that Sil said, please.

Fjellrev

At HR, the Sloane tins were slashed to $9 from $22. I grabbed the last tin of Fortnum & Mason Spiced Christmas tea for $15, and it was originally $38. The other regular F&M, I don’t quite remember the discount but it was something similar like 50-60% off. No MF or Fauchon left, unfortunately. Although I did grab a jar of Fauchon ginger, cinnamon, and citrus fruit confiture for $6 that was originally $15.

Fjellrev

Whoops sorry, yes! I’ve also had their Pumpkin Spice and Ginger blends. All very good.

Sil

wish they were here in toronto. 15$ shipping is silly.

Fjellrev

And who needs $100 worth of honey to get free shipping. The jars are quite heavy, so I guess it’s largely Canada Post’s fault, but yeah. It sucks. :/

OMGsrsly

Holy smokes. I’m glad I didn’t know about the HR discounts, or I’d have bought more tea. :)

Evol Ving Ness

If I procrastinate long enough, HR will have sold out of all their teas by the time I get there. And yes, that honey sounds divine.

Sil

HR was sold out at Bay and Bloor, unless they moved them to another area -peeked in the window this morning on coffee run. @ yorkdale they had TWG and holt’s blend according to my other half.

Evol Ving Ness

Thanks, Sil. And now I definitely feel no sense of urgency to get there, thanks to your tea mafia family. TWG = Twinning?

OMGsrsly

TWG = TWG. :) They have a full store in Vancouver, the Urban Tea Merchant. Very fancy. Very expensive. I think they’ve been around since 2008, so they’re fairly new still. https://www.twgtea.com/

OMGsrsly

(I still want Oud Night, but I want 10g of it. Not 50g!)

Evol Ving Ness

Thank you, OMGsrsly. Another one to lust for.

Fjellrev

An oud-flavoured tea? Crazysauce.

Funny, the HR here never had TWG.

Evol Ving Ness

Oud is both an instrument and a perfume in the Middle East. I don’t know which TWG is referring to with this tea. http://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Agarwood-Oud—114.html

Fjellrev

Yeah, I’m not a fan of oud at all in perfumery, so I can’t imagine drinking it.

Evol Ving Ness

I can see it mixing rather well with bergamot, for example. Perhaps they are concocting a faux oud with whatevers.

OMGsrsly

Haha. TWG is ridiculously expensive, and what I’ve tried has not been worth the 50g I’ve had to purchase. I need to start getting teas to go… (They have an $850/50g tea. Which. No.)

Evol Ving Ness

Teas to go. But then, I’d need to go to Vancouver. One day, I will go to Van on a tea trip. :)

But this TWG. Just. No. I already need tea counselling as is.

Sil

i haven’t loved twg. i prefer MF or DF as far as fancy french like teas go. August uncommon as well for that sort of higher end blend…or bellocq.

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12 tasting notes

I don’t particularly like how DavidsTea doesn’t list what type of tea it is, only that it’s “from the east coast of Taiwan.” It tastes a bit like Assam, with it’s malty flavor, but it’s not as strong. Although it has a distinct flavor, it tastes weak to me, lacking the tannin flavor I typically associate with black tea. I’m not getting any honey flavors, either.

I’ll have to play with the steeping time and amounts, but for now, it just tastes like a weak cup of Irish Breakfast. I’ll give it one thing—it is smooth. If you like English Breakfast (I don’t) then you’d probably like this tea. Personally, for its price point, it’s not that great.

Flavors: Earth, Malt, Salty

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 14 OZ / 414 ML

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