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Tasting note
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Origin: Korea, Hadong district
Tea colour: black tea
Dry leaves:
Aspect: leaves rolled and twisted lengthways.
Colour: very dark brown.
Scents: cooked fruits and black fruits, vanilla pods, milky, pronounced chocolate notes.
Brewed leaves:
Colour: brown
Scents: floral (geranium), preserved citrus, cooked fruit (jam), milky, toasted, pronounced cocoa (roasted beans, chocolate) and woody notes.
Liquor:
Colour: a lovely coppery liquor.
Texture: round and smooth.
Flavours: sweet.
Aromas: milky vanilla, fruity (cooked fruit, jam), a hint of honey, floral (geranium), preserved citrus, toasted and liquorice notes.
Aromatic profile and length in the mouth: rich, round and elegant chocolate notes (cocoa). well balanced, lingering woody, toasted and vanilla notes.
Our verdict:
This tea is really quite unique. Plucked and processed entirely by hand at the Jukro farm, this is one of the best black teas produced in the country. The cocoa, vanilla bouquet evokes the rich note of the China Qimen Mao Feng teas, but its strength, richness and intensity takes us more in the direction of the best dark Wu Longs from Taiwan. An outstanding gastronomic experience!
Throughout the year, our experts travel in the tea plantations looking for the best pluckings and new, rare, delicious teas.
The fact that we travel so extensively, that we taste and buy on location has many advantages and allows us to find rare crops by looking outside the traditional supplier circuit, to taste and to share with you the harvests of small plantations, which are often hidden away.
Visiting tea estates regularly and thereby establishing long-lasting relations with our suppliers allows us to guarantee regular quality control of the teas we buy, and to continue our mission: to bring you the best quality teas and to share our travels and experience with you, while concerning ourselves with environmental issues, working conditions on the estates and the fair trade practices to which we adhere.
