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“This was my very first fu zhuan tea. The outer part of the brick does not show any golden flowers, but when you dig a bit deeper into the brick, the tiny beneficial mold spheres reveal themselves....” Read full tasting note
This category of tea is “dark tea”, not “black tea”, according to Hojo(https://hojotea.com/item_e/d01e.htm)
Looks like it was made in honor of the most recent Chinese zodiac lunar calendar’s Year of the Monkey, which Wikipedia says lasted from 8 February 2016 to - 27 January 2017. Box says it was packed in 2015.
Found manufacturer info for this particular product w/ some difficulty after purchasing these bricks. Still can’t read most of it, but what Google Translate managed is pasted below. https://item.jd.com/10245501991.html
Zodiac Series Shaanxi Specialty Gift Box. Jinhua(Golden Flowers) Brick Tea for the Year of the Monkey – Ten Thousand Miles (very large distance) 1.32 kg tea
泾渭茯茶 生肖系列礼盒1320g 陕西特产黑茶泾阳茯茶 金花茯砖茶 猴年-十万八千里
“Tea Zodiac Series Gift Box 1320g Shaanxi Specialty Black Tea Yangyang Tea Golden Flower Brick Tea Year of the Monkey – Ten Thousand Eight Miles”
Lunar New Year series Golden Fu brick tea fungus every year a fragrant flower Shaanxi Intangible Cultural Heritage
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Fu Brick Tea of Hunan with Golden Flowers * Sample Pack
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Yunnan Sourcing2015 CLASSIC BAI LIN GONG FU BLACK TEA OF FUDING * GOLDEN MONKEY * SPRING 2015
Yunnan SourcingThis was my very first fu zhuan tea. The outer part of the brick does not show any golden flowers, but when you dig a bit deeper into the brick, the tiny beneficial mold spheres reveal themselves. It is repulsive because we are conditioned to not ingest anything so scary looking, especially from a foreign country labeled in a language we cannot completely read, but a relief to verify that I had found the right thing on the first try despite acquiring it unopened and brand new from a grandpa I do not know who was downsizing his tea collection. I tasted the outer chunk first after two long rinses. It is really a perfect digestive beverage. You can feel the large meal you ate actively dissolve with great haste within you after you drink this. Later in the day, I tried the inner chunk dotted with golden flowers. As promised, the leaves smelled convincingly of dark honey and the soup tasted sweeter than the first chunk. The color of the liquid ranges from a deep gold to a warm red depending on the length of the steeps, but it loses most of its flavor by around steep 8. In the latter steeps, it tastes more like a strong black tea than anything else, but the early steeps are quite unique, I imagine, to this genre of “golden flowers”. It is such an interesting tea. I will be drinking it regularly this winter to learn more about it. I don’t see how anyone can refrain from eating more food after a session or two of this tea, though. It is like 15 out of 10 on the munchies meter.
Flavors: Berries, Honey
