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“This tea, once you get the steeping parameters right, is a nice tea. I started out with a 10 second steep. The tea was relatively flavorless. I upped it to 30 seconds for the second steep. It got...” Read full tasting note
“I write this after my second tasting of this tea. I’ve wanted to be fair, I was excited to try this tea, but the sad thing is that I can find no redeeming qualities. There is nearly no flavor to...” Read full tasting note
Our Zen Red tea cake is made by using the top-notch Fengqing tea leaves harvested in 2016 early spring from selected eco tea gardens. It is the first black tea cake we managed to make. Now you would enjoy a nice drink with bright orange tone, and great throat feeling, rich and mouthful.
A lightly fermented black tea, compressed in cake form for aging.
Refreshing, aromatic and sweet. Weak in bitterness and astringency, enjoy it now.
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Yunnan SourcingThis tea, once you get the steeping parameters right, is a nice tea. I started out with a 10 second steep. The tea was relatively flavorless. I upped it to 30 seconds for the second steep. It got a little better but still not good. I was using 8.2g leaf an a 150ml gaiwan mind you. At one minute it was finally what I would call enjoyable. There were notes of malt and baked bread in this steep, as well as some bitterness. Steeps four and five were decent at two and three minutes. But it does seem that this tea does not have a lot of good steeps in it. It might be better brewed western style with a large amount of leaf and a long five minute steep. I think there is flavor in this tea. It was just hard to coax out. I only gave the tea five steeps and I think that was about all I was going to get out of it. I definitely don’t think it is as bad as the other reviewer. If I had stuck with the standard gongfu short steeps I would probably agree but this tea required a longer steep from the beginning.
I steeped this five times in a 150ml gaiwan with 8.2g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 10 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, and 3 min. I think this was a tea worth buying as it was not too expensive and once you get it right it is tasty. It is not a tea for a lot of steeps however.
Flavors: Bread, Malt
I write this after my second tasting of this tea. I’ve wanted to be fair, I was excited to try this tea, but the sad thing is that I can find no redeeming qualities.
There is nearly no flavor to this tea – the only taste I’ve been able to coax out is one of astringent bitterness. There is absolutely none of the chocolate/malty flavor I’ve found in other 2016 Feng Qing teas.
The description says “lightly fermented” but there is no hint of any fermentation. Though after brewing the leaves are a mixture of medium brown and green. Strange that such leaves produce less flavor than a spent lipton bag.
The bing itself is loosely pressed (perhaps too loosely, 10-15 grams of leaves had fallen off the bing) and completely lacking of any fragrance.
I can’t imagine that aging will help, it seems to be as stale and lifeless as it could possibly get already.
