Black Tea

Forest Punch

Yunnan Old Tree Hong Cha Tasting notes: Blackberry tart, caramel, honey, malt. Lively and warming with a light, sweet, slightly mineral finish. Old Tree Yunnan Black Tea (Golden Tip) is hand-picked from old tea trees aged 200-300 years.

Golden Eyebrow

Jin Jun Mei Tasting notes: Rock honey, sweet earthy slate, malted biscuits, violets and lilac. Strong but smooth and mellow with deep aftertaste. Jin Jun Mei is a new Chinese black tea that was created in 2005 in Tong Mu Village of Wuyi. Though it is not a historic famous tea, it has become one of the best sellers in China and some hold it as one of the best Chinese black teas.

Honey Spear

Yunnan Wild Hong Cha Tasting notes: Fermented dried plum, cacao, orchid, forest honey and a sweet, smooth, cooling finish. Crafted from 100 to 200 year-old trees of the small-leafed purple varietal. With it’s unique flavour profile and signature needle shape, the wild character of this tea is unmistakable. This tea yields a perfectly balanced interplay of floral, sweet, and cooling forest notes that linger long after the last sip.

Humble Tong Mu

Tongmuguan Unsmoked Tasting notes: Buttery smoked wood, lilac, orange liquor, browned berry pastry. Light but full in the mouth with a complimentary minerality and satisfying huigan (“returning sweetness”) at the back of the throat.

Osmanthus Black

Guihua Hong Tasting notes: Chocolate, caramel, orange cake, flower petals in the summer sun. Both warming and sweet, it is ideal for crisp Autumn and Winter mornings. The dry leaves of the Guihua Hong has an incredibly sweet fruity floral nose to it, due to the inclusion of dried osmanthus flowers (guihua). This is the only blended tea I am offering so far on the website, and the blend is very modest, with less than 5% flowers to 95% tea.

Red Snail

Red Bi Luo Chun Tasting notes: Cacao, leather, dark ripe fruit, molasses, resin, warm spice. Rounded, oily and slightly mineral finish.

Tong Mu Dawn

Tong Mu Zhengshan XiaoZhong Tasting notes: Drinking chocolate, red fruits, yellow roses and dark honey. Smooth and buttery with a lingering wet rock finish. An unsmoked lapsang from the famed Tong Mu village, with tea leaves collected from wilder bushes growing around the village. Being unsmoked, the bright fruit and wood notes are allowed to fully shine.

Venerable Way

Yihong Hong Cha Tasting notes: Buttery dark chocolate, smoky coffee, dry tropical hardwood. Oily smooth mouthfeel and mild slate mineral finish.

Woodland Dusk

Gushu Dianhong Tasting notes: Pecan pie, rye toast, baked oranges, and a soothing, malty woodland creek finish.