Organic Royale Ruby Black Tea Microlot from Jun Chiyabari from The Steeping Room

Organic Royale Ruby Black Tea Microlot from Jun Chiyabari

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Astringent, Autumn Leaf Pile, Baby Powder, Bread, Caramel, Cedar, Chili, Chocolate, Cream, Drying, Earth, Floral, Geranium, Graham Cracker, Hay, Lemon, Lime, Marzipan, Mineral, Muscatel, Musk, Nectar, Orange Blossom, Peanut, Pear, Peppermint, Pine, Plum, Rose, Spicy, Straw, Sweet, Tannin, Vanilla, Violet, White Pepper, Woody, Brown Sugar, Cocoa, Dry Leaves, Eucalyptus, Flowers, Hot Hay, Incense, Leather, Spring Water, Wood
Sold in
Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by derk
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 10 oz / 300 ml

Currently unavailable

We don't know when or if this item will be available.

From Our Community

1 Image

1 Want it Want it

0 Own it Own it

2 Tasting Notes View all

  • “So happy to have found a stateside supplier of Jun Chiyabiri Nepali teas! What-Cha, located in England, also carries this garden’s teas from time to time. This first cup came out rather astringent...” Read full tasting note
    90

From The Steeping Room

Royale Ruby Black is a top tier black tea from the deservedly famous Jun Chiyabari Tea Garden. The tea is rich with notes of cinnamon and honey with a delightful edge of sweet violet and rose aromatics. The texture is nectar-like, with a medium body as compared to other black teas.

Jun Chiyabari, which translates to “Moonlit Tea Garden,” is a very exciting tea producer with a reputation for very clean, well made, creative teas. Their gardens are at an elevations of between 1650 m and 2110 m, making these teas some of the highest grown in the world.

Harvested November 12, 2021.

About The Steeping Room View company

Company description not available.

2 Tasting Notes

90
1612 tasting notes

So happy to have found a stateside supplier of Jun Chiyabiri Nepali teas! What-Cha, located in England, also carries this garden’s teas from time to time.

This first cup came out rather astringent and drying but tastewise, it’s everything I love about Nepali teas. So aromatic with a certain delicacy, truly engaging and complex if one want’s to explore. I’d say one has to be confident in their brewing or at least willing to be patient to figure it out. In that way, Jun Chiyabari’s teas aren’t necessarily daily drinkers.

I’ll come back with a more comprehensive note once I dial in the brewing – thinking of going down to 185F next time. Just throwing some associations below for now because I’m getting a ton! Nepali teas are truly something special to me, so much like Darjeeling teas but uniquely their own.

Feeling: dry heat, cool sweet

Flavors: Astringent, Autumn Leaf Pile, Baby Powder, Bread, Caramel, Cedar, Chili, Chocolate, Cream, Drying, Earth, Floral, Geranium, Graham Cracker, Hay, Lemon, Lime, Marzipan, Mineral, Muscatel, Musk, Nectar, Orange Blossom, Peanut, Pear, Peppermint, Pine, Plum, Rose, Spicy, Straw, Sweet, Tannin, Vanilla, Violet, White Pepper, Woody

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
5 comments
Edit
Martin Bednář
Delete

Yay for local source!

Leafhopper
Delete

This one sounds promising, if finicky. :)

Leafhopper
Delete

I forgot to add that Camellia Sinensis in Canada also sells Jun Chiyabari teas on occasion.

beerandbeancurd
Delete

Your beautiful descriptors make me feel ashamed of my frustration with Indian and Nepali teas… but also provide some encouragement to keep exploring. :)

derk
Delete

Glad you can get some of their teas from a Canadian vendor, Leafhopper.

beerandbeancurd, no shame! Not all teas work for everybody. Black teas from Assam and Ceylon usually leave me feeling empty but every once in a while one will surprise :)

Login or sign up to leave a comment.