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“Beautiful and light black tea. Light black teas can sometimes seem awkward to me, as the lightness seems to defy everything I might want from a black tea. First flush Darjeelings and a few Yunnan...” Read full tasting note
“Gongfu! Steeping up a pretty casual session with one of these minis! This is my first time trying this black tea and it’s pretty close to W2T’s site description; super sweet and syrupy, especially...” Read full tasting note
Our 2022 Rectrix is a sun dried black tea from Yunnan province.
A very bud heavy picking of black tea with heavy hitting cotton candy aromas, sweet flavors and a thick enduring body. An upgrade option for those seeking a daily black tea to power through the morning that doesn’t skimp on layered intrigue.
Each purchase is for one ~ 7 gram ball.
Beautiful and light black tea. Light black teas can sometimes seem awkward to me, as the lightness seems to defy everything I might want from a black tea. First flush Darjeelings and a few Yunnan black teas I have tried would be exceptions to this line of thinking. Anyways, that isn’t the case with this one.
The peachy stone fruit and nice syrupy sweet liquor impresses, and makes you forget how light it is. Light but still with some body to the tea. Some malty notes, but they sit mostly in the background. This is a black tea that drinks more like an oolong, for sure. Actually, I thought my first and second steeps (at 2 minutes and 3 minutes, respectively) were more like a white tea.
By my third steep at 4 minutes, the tea has thickened up and darkened quite a bit and I would say is more oolong-like. Also, a small amount of vegetal bite came out at this stage.
I grabbed this one because of the promised “cotton candy aromas,” and, while I don’t quite find cotton candy here, I am still enjoying the peachy fruit notes. At least we are in the right neighborhood.
Gongfu!
Steeping up a pretty casual session with one of these minis! This is my first time trying this black tea and it’s pretty close to W2T’s site description; super sweet and syrupy, especially in the front half each steep in the earlier portion of the session. I find the deep garnet coloured liquor it produces so mesmerizing. Perhaps it’s subconsciously creating some suggestion bias, but it feels super apt for the coating, bright notes of sweet grenadine that I get in the fleeting top notes of most infusions before the profile settles into more of the spun sugar, chocolate, and malt flavours that better define the session. The aftertaste is particularly intriguing as it’s the least sweet part of the tea. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what the tasting note is, but it’s unlike anything else in the session.
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXnIGguhV6/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39ts57OcRo
4th steep at 5 minutes – Its been here all along, and I haven’t realized until now, but this tea has a good amount of oakiness, too!