2021 Laos Red

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Brandy, Bright, Candy, Cherry, Citrus, Clean, Clear, Cocoa, Goji, Honey, Licorice Root, Mineral, Mushrooms, Nectar, Rich, Sweet, Tannin, Wood
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Compressed
Caffeine
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Certification
Not available
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 3 g 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “2022 pressing, not on website Mornings at One River Tea’s traditional Tujia house in Maiyingtai village always started slowly. The three of us are not early risers. Tea in the house is made with...” Read full tasting note
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Tea: 2021 Laos Red Tea (Laos Hongcha 老挝红茶)
Type: Black Tea
Harvest: Autumn 2021
Press Date: October 2021
Region: Bankomen, Phongsali, Laos
Producer: Keosuyaping Family
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The leaves of this tea are a beautiful dark black and red color with large thick stems characteristic of gushu material. Pressing has done much to make this large-leafed stem-heavy black tea much more manageable when brewing in a small gaiwan or teapot. The warmed leaves giveRead more

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2022 pressing, not on website

Mornings at One River Tea’s traditional Tujia house in Maiyingtai village always started slowly. The three of us are not early risers. Tea in the house is made with water pumped from the river up into the village’s concrete reservoir. The river named Loushuiyuan (for which the local tea cooperative is named) runs through the valley bottom as a beautiful streak of aquamarine. In the kitchen’s wood wall, there’s a tap with a tiny filter on it that I’m not convinced does much to remove the river sediment. No bother, though; it’s very clean-tasting water and never made me sick. We’d prepare morning tea drank from Coca-Cola glasses sized and shaped like the cans.

It’s a lazy, cold and sunny Saturday morning at the end of October. I’m sipping on the last of this tea in one of those glasses, much like mornings in China but with city tap instead of aquamarine river water. Probably 3g to 300mL of 200F water, grandpa. The tea has a glassy, nectarous licorice root taste and texture before the tight compression of the cake gives way. It’s a substantial, though not heavy feeling tea once it finally opens up. Bright and fresh yet with rich, mature tastes of natural cherry candy, fresh mushrooms, honey, citrus, wood, a bit of goji berry, mineral cleansing. Very clean and sweet aftertaste. The taste gets woodier with nice raspy tannins as I move into the fifth pour, still bright in taste, a little cocoa. High in caffeine but comfortable and with great longevity, all of which would make it a good partner for busy days in the office. Enjoyable red tea, sad to see it go.

Flavors: Brandy, Bright, Candy, Cherry, Citrus, Clean, Clear, Cocoa, Goji, Honey, Licorice Root, Mineral, Mushrooms, Nectar, Rich, Sweet, Tannin, Wood

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 3 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
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gmathis 2 years ago

This was delicious to read!

ashmanra 2 years ago

I agree with the above! <3

Martin Bednář 2 years ago

That’s a beautiful picture you wrote.

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