This really makes a wonderful all day tea as I regularly get somewhere between 7-11 infusions out this tea. Unlike some of my other blacks that re-steep well this one manages to keep a very consistent flavour for the first 4 or 5 infusions a well.
This one has very tightly rolled curly shiny dark brown to black leaves with some golden tips. The dry leaf smells of chocolate, sweet potato and a touch of hay.
Brewing up to a beautiful clear copper orange color the tea feels silky in the mouth like a oolong.
The tea has tastes and aromas of cocoa, blackened roasted sweet potato, plum and longan, cinnamon and at times a savoury note that ranges from rosemary to pepper, and honey and bit of malt. A sweet, cocoa, honeyed sweet potato taste lingers for quite a while. After the first steep the sweet cocoa and longan intensify, before the tea goes through a period where malt and longan dominate with a bit of cocoa and eventually the tea becomes a honey flavoured water. Really nice mellow all day tea.
This tea is sold by several aliexpress dealers. I got it at this one
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2013-premium-tea-200g-kung-fu-black-tea-2/1071265726.html.
The farmer has a Taobao shop fom which you can buy direct. I think he has sold out of this specific harvest but this is the most recent one.
http://www.idealmalls.com/taobao/view/id/23542752320
These are his other teas
http://www.idealmalls.com/taobao/store/nick/%E6%B2%88%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C
He has a 10-20 Acre farm from which he produces and sells his teas directly.
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nice sounding tea!
Hmmm… I think it’s time you and I talk swap :-)
I agree! For some reason I had it in my head that I had to wait to send everything I wanted to share with you at once, but I seemed to forget that it is possible to scale it to an oversized envelope!
The aliexpress dealer listed above has lots of teas, however this is not their main business Enter ‘tea’ in the search bar and make sure in this store is selected to see what’s available. The prices tend to be a good value in comparison to other dealers for the same teas.
nice sounding tea!
Hmmm… I think it’s time you and I talk swap :-)
I agree! For some reason I had it in my head that I had to wait to send everything I wanted to share with you at once, but I seemed to forget that it is possible to scale it to an oversized envelope!
The aliexpress dealer listed above has lots of teas, however this is not their main business Enter ‘tea’ in the search bar and make sure in this store is selected to see what’s available. The prices tend to be a good value in comparison to other dealers for the same teas.