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Broken Roaring Kitten 2023 Jinmudan
12.00€ 24.00€
Tea – Jinmudan, Yancha Wulong
Harvest – Spring 2023
Origin – Little Bamboo Forest, Wuyishan
The kitten is back! This tea comes from a very nice location near the prized Zhengyan scenic area making it a good value for money: great flavor but no famous location price tag. Made of pure Jinmudan cultivar and grown in this excellent terroir, the Roaring Kitten has a bright floral fragrance and a complex flavor with notes of Yanyun, the so called “melody of the cliffs” flavor, while remaining smooth to drink.
The tea is processed in a light way without a strong roasting, this makes the character and bright fragrance of the cultivar a protagonist that keeps lingering in the aftertaste. If brewed too long or intense it can have a little bitterness so don’t forget it during infusion.
A fun tea to drink and explore something different from the usual.
Price is for 50 g.
Tiger Style Rougui 2019 – Zhengyan
55.00€
Tea – Yancha Wulong
Harvest – Spring 2018
Origin – Bai Yun Si, Zhengyan
This Rougui comes from the Zhengyan protected area of Wuyishan. Due to the impervious nature and small size of this area, the tea produced here is not a large amount. Zhengyan tea, especially Zhengyan Rougui, is highly prized because this terroir can give tea a special flavor called Yan Yun, a name that can be translated as the melody of the cliffs.
Tiger Style Rougui 2019 has a bright Yanyun and an intense, complex flavor with a sweet aftertaste and smooth but rich body. Everything that Zhengyan tea should be. We do not recommended this tea to inexperienced Yancha drinkers who are not familiar with the flavor of Rougui.
As usual we recommend to save a cup from the very first infusion/rinse aside to drink as last at room temperature. This will make the Yanyun flavor most clear and end the session on a high note.
Price is for 50 g.
Lazy Cat tea ain’t nuthin’ to f–k wit
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Huangguanyin 2019 – Fragrance
12.00€
Tea – Yancha Wulong
Harvest – Spring 2019
Origin – Xingcun, Wuyishan (Banyan)
Huangguanyin is a cultivar that is becoming more and more popular every year thanks to its powerful aromatics filled with green notes and florals. Some describe it as having also a milky aroma.
Huangguanyin Fragrance 2019 was processed lightly with minimal baking to showcase in full the cultivar character and the fragrance naturally present in the tea leaves. A bright day of spring in a cup with a refreshingly light and aromatic infusion.
*As a note this tea is unrelated from the huangguanyin 2018, different tea, different flavor and price even if the naming might be confusing.
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Vintage No.1
100.00€
Tea – Aged Yancha Wulong
Origin – Unknown
We don’t know which cultivar was used, how it was processed and not even when it was made. The only information we were able to get about this tea was that it has been fired 10 times over the years. However we think precise information doesn’t matter much, tasting the tea fills us with rich old tea flavor.
It’s a quite calm tea, very comfortable to drink and a great example of roasted yancha aging. The over 10 roasts give this tea plenty of flavor. Boiling this tea is strongly recommended if not almost mandatory and will bring out all the tea flavors warming you up for many brews.
Due to the extremely brittle leaves as a result of the multiple roastings, leaves might are more broken. This is normal and still makes delicious tea.
Drink now or keep sealed to age even further.
Price is for 85 g.
Yanxun Xiaozhong 2018 (Smoked)
17.50€
Tea – Smoked Black Tea
Harvest – Spring 2018
Origin – Tongmuguan, Wuyishan
This tea was produced in Tongmuguan, a Unesco world heritage protected area where tea trees grow semi-wild in a pristine environment. Unlike most areas of Wuyishan that are at relatively low elevation, Tongmu is situated at a much higher altitude and access there is restricted.
The traditional production method is quite unique among other black teas because of the use of smoke. In a building the leaves are placed on the upper floor while on the ground floor pine wood is burned. This process dries the leaves giving the tea a characteristic smoked flavor and is still carried out today by a very few farmers making it somehow hard to find.
This tea has a smoked flavor that has already settled quite a bit after a few years of aging making it lighter and balanced with the tea sweetness. The leaves are broken as it is characteristic of more common productions since this was not considered a fancy tea. The smoked flavor is quite interesting but it divides tea drinkers between those who love or hate it making Xiao Zhong one of the most unique black teas to try.
Price is for 50 g.
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Midnight Rougui 2019
25.00€
Tea – Yancha Wulong
Harvest – Spring 2019
Origin – a mountain on the way to Tongmuguan
This Rougui was harvested in spring 2019 but took many months of processing and multiple roasting before we release it for sale in 2020. The result is a wonderfully smooth and sweet tea that keeps interesting depth of flavor.
With complex notes including yanyun and prominent roasted notes this is a perfectly cozy tea that will be hard not to drink often.
Price is for 50 g.