Rwanda Rukeri OP

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Black Tea
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Average preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec

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Region: Rukeri is an orthodox tea produced in the north west of Rwanda, the tiny quality-tea growing Central African country nestling between Uganda, Tanzania and Congo.

Rukeri is the garden mark for orthodox black tea manufactured by Cyohoha-Rukeri Tea Estate, Africa’s only tea estate with a USA owner. The high yielding estate is set out in a remote valley on rich swamp land soil; it has a good reputation for CTC tea but has only been makingRead more

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I made a mug of this with a heaped teaspoon brewed for three minutes – boiling water. This one was not on the instruction sheet and I made it first thing in the morning before I had the computer up and running, so I hadn’t realised that the tasting notes on the website give a steeping time of six minutes. However, there were still a few strands of tea not sunk when I removed the filter.

This brew was not very noteworthy. There was basic tea flavour, not very strong, and a slight hint of something giving a very little smooth richness, difficult to describe, not chocolate – if one could imagine a flavour somewhere between chocolate and a good beef or lamb gravy, but definitely one flavour, not two elements. There was also the tiniest ‘bite’, again difficult to describe, perhaps the ghost of a hint of white pepper.

It was a very attractive colour, though: an intense, clear red-brown leaning very much to the red side.

So I made the next mug of this brewed for six minutes, but this turned out to be slightly stale-tasting – steeped too long.

Then I tried four and a half minutes and this was okay but not really much of an improvement on three minutes.

So I’d describe this as an ‘okay’ sort of tea but nothing really special.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec

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