This Yunnan black tea was made by a Taiwanese tea master who has been producing teas including puer, oolong, and other teas across Yunnan and Taiwan for over 30 and 50 years respectively.

As soon as hot water hits the leaves, this tea releases an unmistakable ‘Taiwan Wei’ (wèi 味) or Taiwanese-style fragrance — strongly sweet, floral, and fruity. The first sip however, reveals the Yunnan large-leaf assamica (Dà Yè Zhǒng 大叶种) base material, characterised by a thick body (kǒugǎn 口感) and mouthfeel, and plenty of returning sweetness (huígān 回甘). This tea can be steeped many times, with each steep as strong as the last, uniquely fruity fragrance persisting throughout. 

For us, this tea embodies a perfect marriage of Yunnan material and skilled hand processing by the Taiwanese maker. In other words, imagine a Taiwanese black tea with the body of raw puer, or a Dian Hong with the intense delicate fragrance of a Fujianese or Taiwanese black tea.