Element 2023 Mengsong Black Tea
$4.50 – $15.00
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Description
Not necessarily your typical black tea, this sun-dried Yunnan black tea offers a nice caramel sweetness, light fruit scent, and pleasant texture.
Shaihong/sun-dried black teas can be a little less up front with their fragrance at first, but continue to develop over time, making them suitable for storing up to 2 years or more. These teas also have a bit more to offer in terms of texture, mouthfeel, and aftertaste.
For gongfu brewing, we recommend brewing this tea similar to a dragon ball or other single serving format, either extending the rinse to 30 seconds or so, to help open the leaves a bit. This biscuit also performs well when western brewing, for which we advise rinsing for 10 seconds, then brewing for up to 30 seconds in a 350-400ml vessel, then adding 20-30 seconds (or to taste) per brew after that.
Each of the convenient single-serving biscuits contains 7g (+/-1 gram of tea).
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kwycoff (verified owner) –
Great red tea. Stayed strong through 7-8 infusions. I tried it with and without a splash of milk. Really nice either way. Milk really turns it into something dessert-like. Has a wonderful stone fruit aftertaste.
Alexandra Verville-Paris –
Warming, unifying, enveloping – – you can’t do it wrong with this one
//Smell: fruits cold brew in pure water, sugary raisins bread, floral, sun-dried tomatoes, roasting notes, tomato and herb rusk
//Texture: Warm at the back of the palate, liquéfies the saliva, medium texture, evaporating
//Taste: Dark chocolate with raspberries, almonds cake with caramel coulis, floral, fruits juice
//Body sensation: Serenity, calm, present moment, light heat production
Alexewallace64 –
This is exactly the kind of tea I’d love as my daily drinking black tea. It’s so easy to steep and drink but also offers such a comforting experience. It’s really soft, silky, and sweet. Light raisin, whipped caramel sweetness, hints of chocolate, almonds, and plum.
Billy Galvez –
Some flavor missing, but as all the others, a very solid choice. Good lasting, good texture, easy to brew.