This really makes a wonderful all day tea as I regularly get somewhere between 7-11 infusions out this tea. Unlike some of my other blacks that re-steep well this one manages to keep a very consistent flavour for the first 4 or 5 infusions a well.
This one has very tightly rolled curly shiny dark brown to black leaves with some golden tips. The dry leaf smells of chocolate, sweet potato and a touch of hay.
Brewing up to a beautiful clear copper orange color the tea feels silky in the mouth like a oolong.
The tea has tastes and aromas of cocoa, blackened roasted sweet potato, plum and longan, cinnamon and at times a savoury note that ranges from rosemary to pepper, and honey and bit of malt. A sweet, cocoa, honeyed sweet potato taste lingers for quite a while. After the first steep the sweet cocoa and longan intensify, before the tea goes through a period where malt and longan dominate with a bit of cocoa and eventually the tea becomes a honey flavoured water. Really nice mellow all day tea.
This tea is sold by several aliexpress dealers. I got it at this one
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2013-premium-tea-200g-kung-fu-black-tea-2/1071265726.html.
The farmer has a Taobao shop fom which you can buy direct. I think he has sold out of this specific harvest but this is the most recent one.
http://www.idealmalls.com/taobao/view/id/23542752320
These are his other teas
http://www.idealmalls.com/taobao/store/nick/%E6%B2%88%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C
He has a 10-20 Acre farm from which he produces and sells his teas directly.
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