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“From CameronB! Thanks again! Such a tiny fruit, it’s about enough for three Western steeps of tea. Of course, I throw some peel in the infuser, along with the actual tea. Sadly, the black tea...” Read full tasting note
“Gongfu! So this was my first tea session (though not first tea) of the year – not for any particular reason aside from the fact I got this order in right before my holiday break and I’ve been...” Read full tasting note
This less common combination of Xinhui orange and Bangdong black tea produces a fragrant brew that becomes sweeter with each brew.
Naturally, the orange skin offers a fruit flavour, while the black tea lends a sugary sweetness that produces an overall fruit candy-like experience. We recommend using slightly cooler water in the early steeps in order to reduce potential tartness.
Aside from just being a tasty companion to tea, Xinhui oranges from Guangdong are also popular in China for their medicinal properties and therefore come at a fairly high cost. These oranges were processed when young and green, giving them a tart and slightly bitter flavour than the more medicinal tasting ripened oranges. The oranges have been half-sun baked, which means that they are dried in a combination of sun and oven, offering a balance of quality and consistency.
We highly recommend reviewing the “Brewing Recommendations” tab above in order to get the best results.
There are 16 emojis in total that we used for these teas’ wrapper – collect all 16, send us a picture and we’ll send you a prize! What’s the prize? Collect them all and you’ll find out.
These are sold by the orange, which vary in size from roughly 10-12 grams each.
$0.23/gram
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Bitterleaf TeasFrom CameronB! Thanks again! Such a tiny fruit, it’s about enough for three Western steeps of tea. Of course, I throw some peel in the infuser, along with the actual tea. Sadly, the black tea is so incredibly light flavored to me, it’s just not something I want to steep up. The orange really takes over, even though that is quite light too. The orange that does appear in the flavor is very much like a rind flavor. It’s just a bit sad that a tea that isn’t really that great would be put through the trouble of being stuffed inside a tiny orange. Luckily, this isn’t a big orange, and was just enough for me to sample to know that this isn’t the tea for me. :)
Steep #1 // 15 minutes after boiling // 2-3 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 4 minute steep
Gongfu!
So this was my first tea session (though not first tea) of the year – not for any particular reason aside from the fact I got this order in right before my holiday break and I’ve been waiting for a good day to steep one of them up since. As it’s a colder grey and overcast afternoon, the sweet and comforting profile of an orange stuffed tea felt correct for the day. It really is QUITE sweet though!
Opening up the package the aromatic sweet orange notes immediately punctuate the moment, as if to say “You’re in for one hell of a treat!” – and from the first steep my whole room smelled beautifully of the juicy, sweet ripe orange – like digging your nails into the skin of a good clementine or tangerine and breathing in the mist of essential oils spraying back at you as the rind peels back. The session just kept going with the spectrum of steeps ranging from syrupy sweet candied orange to a more full bodied and robust (but still smooth and rounded) coating profile of plump, ripe clementine slices with rich black tea that added additional notes of sweet red fruits, leather, and honey.
Have I conveyed enough of how sweet and distinctly this tea tasted of orange!? It was perfection!! I’m honestly so glad I decided to go all in and get multiples of each of the three tea bases because this is probably one of the most pleasant orange stuffed teas that I’ve ever had!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYM_gd4ugUG/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84ZuzpxG18&ab_channel=MoreFatter
Well, that’s another one for my wishlist. Just when I think I’ve figured out my next tea order(s) someone posts about something that sounds absolutely delicious and screws up my whole plan!
Ros, do you have a separate storage area for your orange peel teas? They’re so “smelly” I’ve been afraid to keep mine organized by tea type like I usually do. All the orangey ones have to live in a separate box.
The answer is yes and no, haha. I put these ones in a special area because they’re pretty potent smelling and I have a couple more fragrant chenpi shou cakes in the same area; but most of them are stored within their tea types.
