Georgia Davit's 'Phoenix' Black Tea from What-Cha

Georgia Davit's 'Phoenix' Black Tea

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Raspberry, Red Wine, Sour, Tobacco, Apricot, Candied Apple, Cherry, Plum, Raisins, Stonefruit, Sweet Potatoes, Caramel, Dark Wood, Malt, Roast Nuts, Soy Sauce, Tannin, Umami, Cedar, Chocolate, Cream, Dried Fruit, Drying, Pleasantly Sour, Rose, Salty, Tannic, Vanilla, Wood, Almond, Apple, Astringent, Black Currant, Cherry Wood, Fig, Floral, Grain, Honey, Milk, Mineral, Straw, Tangy, Seaweed, Fruity, Leather, Nutty, Salt, Toasty, Sweet, Vegetables, Brown Sugar, Dates, Burnt Sugar, Stewed Fruits, Smooth
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Caffeine
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Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 30 sec 6 g 9 oz / 280 ml

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  • “Made a quick and dirty cold brew of this before leaving the house yesterday morning. About a tablespoon of leaves unceremoniously dumped into the bottom of a 16 ounce double-walled glass thermos,...” Read full tasting note
  • “I agree with most of the previous reviews for this tea: it is indeed smooth, not astringent at all and full of stone fruit (plum, apricot, cherry), raisins and baked apples. The best part is the...” Read full tasting note
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  • “If you want to get me excited about a tea, put “stonefruit” in the description. The story of a guy reviving an old tea farm also won me over. This is the spring 2019 harvest. I somehow thought you...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Yet another swap from Togo, thank you. Autumn 2017 harvest. The dry leaf isn’t very fragrant. There is a dominant dried sour cherry and prune note with some malt in the background. Wet leaf...” Read full tasting note
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An aromatic smooth sweet tea with a stone fruit taste, which is very receptive to extended brew times without any detectable bitterness or astringency.

I’m very excited to offer the very first Georgian tea I’ve sourced direct. Davit Tenieshvili resurrected a small abandoned 80 year old tea garden and built a custom wooden tea processing unit.

The end results are most impressive with the tea of a very consistent quality, delivering a clear well defined fruity taste, unique to teas of Georgia.

I’ve named this tea ‘Phoenix’ in recognition of Davit bringing an old abandoned tea garden back to life. Davit’s efforts are symbolic of Georgia’s wider tea industry finding new life after the tea industry’s death post Soviet Union, which saw production fall by 98% and farmable tea land decline by 85%.

Tasting Notes:
- Good fruity aroma
- Smooth sweet taste with stone fruit notes
- No astringency or bitterness

Harvest: Summer 2017

Origin: Ozurgeti, Guria, Georgia
Farmer: Davit Tenieshvili
Sourced: Direct from the farmer

Cultivar: A mix of the old Georgian cultivars
Picking: Hand
Processing: Wooden machinery constructed by Davit Tenieshvili

Brewing Advice:
- Heat water to roughly 95°C/203°F
- Use 2 teaspoon per cup/small teapot
- Brew for 4 minutes

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crappy tasting notes incoming! I’m working from home today, i’m stupidly busy and because of the weather shift, i’ve got a migraine building. ugh. tea to the rescue!

this one is growing on me and was what i needed this morning – note to self, following the recommended “overleafing”
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Lexie Aleah
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What type of work do you do? Hope your migraine goes away soon.

Sil
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I am a change manager in the financial industry :) lots of work can get done at home…at least this way i avoided all the crazy commute horrors.

Nattie
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Feel better!

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The smell of the dry leaves reminds me of raisins, and brewed tea has a mellow, slightly tart smell. I was surprised at how noticeable the fruity flavor is for me. It’s pleasant, and I think it would probably make a nice summer tea. I think I like a little more malt or toasty flavor in my black tea than this, though. I’m not madly in love with this the flavors in this tea, but it’s pleasant and I’ll happily drink it sometimes.

Flavors: Fruity, Raisins

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec
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I’ve had this one a few times now. 3g for 300ml for 3 minutes, with water just off the boil. Re-steeps well at 5 minutes.

Smooth, very very smooth with a light sweetness. There is a bit of a fruity taste somewhere in the body but its so delicate that I find it hard to pin down. This is a great daily drinker and also great for anyone that doesn’t usually like hongcha due to astringency as there is none to be found here.

This isn’t exactly a mind blowing tea in terms of flavours but I rate it quite highly just because its so smooth and pleasurable to drink.

Yet to gongfu this.

Flavors: Smooth, Stonefruit

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
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Sqt
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@What-cha: you’re quickly becoming my favourite vendor. Love the variety in the teas that you source.

What-Cha
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Thanks for the kind words Sqt, it’s always fun to try and find new interesting teas to source and great to know that they’re being appreciated :)

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This is a really good black tea. Its soft glossy dark syrup sweetness, with some spicy fruit, a bit long the lines of a very nicely balanced dongfang meiren. Low malt, ripe wood flavours. Lasts a good amount of infusions. Does not get sickly like some oriental beauty can. Some good fruits in there too – raisins? stonefruity

I’m not a big fan of blacks really, but this one took me by surprise. This and the other black I got from what-cha (the taiwanese wild chan cha – 25% off this august as the tea of the month!) are some of the nicest black teas i’ve tried in a good while.

I brewed it gongfu and got a load of steeps from it, i’m really sure black fans will be able to get a lot of pleasure from it western style as well. You can get a whole lot of flavour from it & possibly create a much more complex cup than I got – its nice and gentle gongfu.
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Rasseru
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yeah its a pretty epic black tea – actually I am going to try it western in a mo with the other half of the sample and see how it goes.

Sil
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nice, i’ll keep my eye out for your thoughts. tossed it on to my wish list…hoping to get to another what-cha order “soonish”

Rasseru
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Just tried it – compared to gongfu it is stronger, tree-sap, fruity aromas, spiced fruit and other things. More raisin notes. Dates? I preferred the exploration gongfu – but i’m not a black tea person so your mileage will vary a lot more if you are.

I could definitely taste it being special, thats for sure. Theres a distinctive fruity aroma that reminded me of a candy I couldnt place, but its melded with the darker bolder flavours. Reminded me a bit of the YS wild arbor assamica if you know that one.

If you like all that stuff its a great cup!

Rasseru
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It does have the usual black tea woodsy malt(ish) flavours but not dry & chocolatey like dian hong

Terri HarpLady
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Sounds like something I’d enjoy!

Simon Sim
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From your description, it taste like another Georgia’s black tea which I like very much – Mrs Leila Hand made.

Rasseru
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yes, all the georgian teas I have tried have a similar smooth taste

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