Red Jade T-18 White Tea, Lot 700 from Taiwan Tea Crafts

Red Jade T-18 White Tea, Lot 700

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Astringent, Bread, Brown Sugar, Caramelized Sugar, Cinnamon, Green Beans, Malt, Round, Savory, Smooth, Sweet, Sweet Potatoes, Bitter, Bitter Melon, Black Currant, Grass, Guava, Herbs, Lime, Medicinal, Passion Fruit, Pepper, Peppermint, Sour, Spicy, Tangy, Umami
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195 °F / 90 °C 1 min, 45 sec 6 g 10 oz / 287 ml

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  • “Sipdown! (3 | 3) This is very unusual for a white tea, it definitely tastes closer to a black tea. I guess that makes sense given it’s from the same cultivar as Red Jade. It’s very savory-tasting....” Read full tasting note
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  • “Upon opening the pouch, I am greeted by an invigorating and pungent herbal aromas, reminiscent of massage lotions. There are notes of allspice, peppermint, black currant leaves and ammonia. Unlike...” Read full tasting note
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We thought this Lot 700 was all sold before we could even release it. A small batch resurfaced this September and we quickly grabbed it to make it available, finally! Lot 700 is much finer and better finished tea than our previous Lot 643. This is undoubtedly a one of kind tea. First, it is a white tea made from a Taiwanese cultivar, the Hong Yu T-18 from which the renowned Red Jade black tea is made from. It is also quite an unusual tea: not many white teas are produced in Taiwan, if any, even less using this particular cultivar. We will take full responsibility for treading new territory in tea making as this a true house tea: it was made in our family’s own factory using leaves from our own Red Jade garden. Furthermore, if there was ever one tea that we could label “handmade” this would be it! These leaves have not encountered any form of machinery in the making of it. Similar to a Chinese Shou Mei white tea, young leaves were hand-picked, gently laid to wither, hand-fluffed to stimulate a light oxydation and desiccated to lock-in their lush fragrance. if you are familiar with Red Jade Black Tea you will be surprised by the striking aromatics of this tea. The fresh eucalyptus, cinnamon and camphor-like coolness is truly heady. The liqueur is sweet, thick with a nice dry tannic quench. A truly pleasant surprise that we are proud to humbly propose to our Taiwan Tea Crafts clientele. Get some while it last as this is a very limited quantity Lot.

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This is very unusual for a white tea, it definitely tastes closer to a black tea. I guess that makes sense given it’s from the same cultivar as Red Jade.

It’s very savory-tasting. The strongest note for me is green bean, and it’s a very cooked green bean that reminds me of these stewed green beans with bacon that my grandmother used to make. But then I can also taste those lovely dark caramelized brown sugar and malt notes that I would expect from a Taiwanese black tea. The hint of cinnamon is there as well. It’s almost a little sweet potato-y, like a Yunnan black tea? And a bit of astringency on the tail end.

It’s yummy! I don’t get the eucalyptus or camphor mentioned in the description, but it is on the older side now (though it was a sealed packet). An unusual and fun one to try for sure!

Flavors: Astringent, Bread, Brown Sugar, Caramelized Sugar, Cinnamon, Green Beans, Malt, Round, Savory, Smooth, Sweet, Sweet Potatoes

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec 4 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
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Evol Ving Ness
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Funny how one can go for years not hearing about eucalyptus or camphor and then—boom!—everybody is talking about it.

derk
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Due both to the power of suggestion and factors influencing harvests from season to season. It’s been a minute since I’ve had a wintergreen/camphor/eucalyptus-heavy Red Jade.

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Upon opening the pouch, I am greeted by an invigorating and pungent herbal aromas, reminiscent of massage lotions. There are notes of allspice, peppermint, black currant leaves and ammonia. Unlike with some other teas, the smell is a very good indicator of how the tea tastes like too. The taste is savoury, tangy and bitter overall. I noticed flavours of cinnamon, peppery spiciness, grass, quinine and lime leaves. Later on, there are fruits like guava and passion fruit emerging. The aftertaste is generally very long and cooling with a sour and tangy character. Towards the end it gets quite drying. Mouthfeel is thick and lubricating, and contributes a lot to my enjoyment of the tea.

I would say this is a full-budied, powerful yet nuanced white tea. I like it a lot. All in all, I managed to get 11 nice infusions, the last 3 of which were somewhat astringent though.

Flavors: Bitter, Bitter Melon, Black Currant, Cinnamon, Grass, Guava, Herbs, Lime, Medicinal, Passion Fruit, Pepper, Peppermint, Sour, Spicy, Tangy, Umami

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
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Kawaii433
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Guava… Yum.

Kittenna
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I don’t think I picked up any whites from TTC way back when I ordered from them. This (or future versions of it) seem like a good candidate for a future order!

Togo
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I just opened this one Kittenna, so even though we will probably drink some of it at the tea tasting this Saturday, there should be some left that I can give you if you want to try it out :)

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