Jin Jun Mei from Spirit Tea

Jin Jun Mei

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Apricot, Bread, Butterscotch, Cream, Malt, Potato, Scotch, Smooth, Squash, Tannin, Tobacco, Butter, Honeysuckle, Peach
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185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 15 sec 4 g 5 oz / 147 ml

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Jin Jun Mei (lit. Golden Beautiful Eyebrow) has been the ‘grand crus’ of the Wuyi region since 2005. Tongmu and its surrounding plateaus boast tremendous soil acidity, clean water, and biodiversity. Jin Jun Mei is a very tippy style sprouted from the ferruginous soil 1100m high in the mountainous region. The picking window for this tea is less than a week long and the unique withering process is one the most arduous of black tea styles. It takes nearly 50,000 hand picked buds to make 1 kilo of this tea.

Notes of Butterscotch, Fresh Baked Bread, and Apricot.

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1724 tasting notes

Oddly enough, this pure tea reminds me of the Geeky Teas Goblin King blend. Hm. I kinda let this sit for 2-3 minutes, and the apricot is more prominent, bordering on floral with milder malt. Very comforting.

Another 3-4 minutes, and its losing some lustre. A little bit more malt, but still some butter. Apricot is leading almost making the tea kinda peachy.

I am not sure if I am going to write about the last steep because it’s probably going to be a honeysuckle apricot liquid. We’ll see. I like that this one was fruity to make it stand apart from other Jin Jun Mei’s. I’ve already got to much in my stash anyhow.

Flavors: Butter, Honeysuckle, Malt, Peach

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