Customer Reviews
Lovely gentile fruti Pu-Ehr. round, with a little orange. lasts me through the day!
Hi Bas, we're glad you liked it! One of the things we like about xiao qing gan is that it doesn't release all its fragrance at once. As it's well aged and the orange aroma is fully absorbed, both the pu erh tea and the orange peel aroma has great endurance.
Delicious tea with a little orange taste
Taste is pleasant, but tea is not as strong I would have thought. For the price, definetily value for the money though.
Thank you for your review! With this tea, we sourced a ripe pu erh tea that is somewhat more lightly post-fermented to achieve a certain balance between the earthiness of ripe pu erh and the fragrance of the fruit. So you can consider this a milder, more delicate Xiao Qing. You may tweak the steeping parameters to get a stronger brew, but we think the 'Fortune xiao qing gan', might suit you better.
The fruit of the orange and the earthy flavour of the tea is well balanced and makes a nice sensation in the mouth. Even my father, who is not much into tea really enjoys it.
The exterior, freshly unwrapped, is already quite captivating. This small, whole, dark green tangerine appears with an even smaller peel cap on top and a strong, fragrant citrus aroma, albeit with an underlying hint of the earthy notes typical of ripe Puerh. Using the Gongfu method at a temperature of 98°C, starting at about 90 seconds and then decreasing, the first infusion releases a citrus aroma, while camphorous notes develop from the tea leaves.
The color ranges from deep amber to red, and the perfect blend of citrus and tea is evident once again in the taste: the mandarin aroma is balanced by the tea's earthy, tobacco, and chocolate notes, which emerge in the middle stage, giving way to the typical sweetness of the dried fruit, which then returns to the citrus in the lingering aftertaste. Proceeding with successive infusions, the smoothness and sweetness of the Puerh grow in intensity and pleasure. It's a complete sensory experience that engages not only the taste and smell, but also the sight.
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.
