How this black tea is made
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Picking
Tea leaves are hand-picked in the morning.
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Withering
The leaves are spread on bamboo trays to wither.
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Rolling
Leaves are rolled, breaking down the surface cells and promoting oxidation.
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Oxidation
Rolled leaves are oxidized in bamboo baskets covered with a cloth.
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Drying
The oxidized leaves are dried to reduce moisture to a minimum.
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Sorting
The tea leaves are sorted manually or mechanically.
This tea is from the spring harvest of 2025 and was grown and harvested in Fengqing.
I brewed the tea at 85 degrees Celsius, starting with a 20-second steeping time.
An incredibly sweet tea with pronounced honey notes and a pleasant maltiness. You can also clearly taste floral notes in the background. A great Hong Cha at a great price.
Really good red tea. Very smooth and soft. Needs just couple of minutes to be prepared.
My favorite black tea, tastes similar to the Qi Lan but has a brighter flavor due to the sweet honey and floral notes, i highly recommend this tea.
This tea is really flavorful without having any bitter or sharp undertones. The flavor and aroma is smooth and I enjoy the hint of honey that comes trough.
This tea is perfect to drink at any time, and would be a great starter-tea to help introduce to someone curious on nicer types of tea.
Perfect and subtile! Surprising elegant black tea.
Our design work is inspired by the artwork “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by the Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty. Instead of displaying the daily lives of people in the capital of China (as the original artwork), we display the tea making process of farmers through the same bird’s eye perspective.
When examining our packaging design in detail, tea enthusiasts will observe the tea making process, featuring tea farmers picking, drying, rolling, and frying tea leaves. The tea is then tasted in a pavilion and transported by horses along the ‘ancient tea road’.
Together, the traditional Chinese landscape and tea making theme, symbolise heritage, tradition, and respect for hard work of tea farmers.
