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“From Daylon R Thomas! Thanks so much! I misspoke the other day when I thought the Charleston Tea Garden was the only American tea grower. NOPE. Here is a lovely leaf grown in Michigan — it...” Read full tasting note
“I’ve barely touched this tea since that last note. Actually, I’ve been pretty bad about my unflavored blacks. I’ve mostly finished my Taiwanese ones, and then try my others and end up not finishing...” Read full tasting note
Blender’s Notes: This is such an extraordinary black tea! Refreshing, golden & consistent liquor, uplifting for many, many infusions. This is THE ONLY tea that this blender’s husband will drink after she gave it to him as a Christmas gift now 17 years ago! “This is the one! I love it! This is all I want to drink”, he said. He also enjoys with a little Maker’s Mark after kayaking and calls this his “B.C Cocktail”. After my husband expressed his appreciation for this product, I learned how to process our farm’s tea into a style very similar to what we used to sell as " Yunnan Gold ". Michigan’s terroir is different from China’s Yunnan province area, so there are notable flavor differences between the two items, thus necessitating a name change. Please note that we have limited amproduce is immediately packaged into tins.
Remember when ordering loose teas, that there are approximately 200 servings per pound (or that 1 oz. of loose leaf tea or tisane makes 15-25 servings).ounts of this product in pound bags available each year, as most of what we
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From Daylon R Thomas! Thanks so much! I misspoke the other day when I thought the Charleston Tea Garden was the only American tea grower. NOPE. Here is a lovely leaf grown in Michigan — it looks plenty gold in color, yet looks more crumbly than I usually see. The appearance almost reminds me of Zhen Qu (which I dearly miss.) I first tried this tea a week ago, using a teaspoon and a half in a mug, but I just didn’t think that was enough leaf. So here is a note for two teaspoons. I don’t love using two teaspoons, as this is a pricey leaf (that I’m very grateful Daylon decided to share!) but sometimes two teaspoons is necessary and I think there IS a huge difference in just that 1/2 teaspoon of leaves. It’s richer this time around, while never being astringent, even with a ten minute steep on the third: starchy, with a bit of cocoa, malty, sweet and light in flavor while still having a deep colored brew. Though it’s hard for me to describe, I would say it DOES taste like a tea grown somewhere atypical, not a typical terroir that I would be drinking, so it’s interesting the flavor is different from a Michigan tea! Very glad I was able to try this.
Steep #1 // 2 teaspoons // 20 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 2 min after boiling // 3 min steep
Steep #3 // just boiled // 10 min steep
Flavors: Cocoa, Malty, Sweet
I’ve barely touched this tea since that last note. Actually, I’ve been pretty bad about my unflavored blacks. I’ve mostly finished my Taiwanese ones, and then try my others and end up not finishing them passed steep 2 or 3.
This one was an exception because I got a vanilla note today more or less flash steeping a bunch of leaves at 15 second with the malt, cedar, and slight woodsiness. There was a little bit of cocoa steep two at 20 sec, but mostly malt. I got bored after the third steep since I was mostly getting malt. It does stand up better than some of my other Yunnan, Assam, and Chinese Blacks overall.
I gotta figure out how to get rid of the many blacks I have. There’s a few I’ll still keep on hand, but there’s too many I’ve had since 2019 and have not touched. I’ve gone through my oolongs fine, yet this particular type of tea and my white teas have sat there in a box pocket drawer unopened and shuffled around every two weeks. I’ve gone through my flavored teas and oolong so much faster, so I’m going to try to narrow my purchases for next year. I’m buying a house after all, so I need to be more frugal, and less impulsive. Namely, but actually finishing the teas I have.
Flavors: Caramel, Cedar, Malt, Tea, Vanilla
Zhen Qu was a magnificent tea!