MAD MIX - China Black Tea made from a Taiwan Oolong Variety

This tea has all of the fruity fragrance of a Taiwan Oolong but with a spice and finish from being grown in Yunnan and processed into a Black Tea. A crazy, beautiful and enduring hybrid tea.
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  • @tinacarroll5481
    @tinacarroll54812 жыл бұрын

    Black tea has become my love since discovering proper tea. So underrated.

  • @jasonblack4208
    @jasonblack42083 жыл бұрын

    Easily the sweetest black tea I've ever tasted.

  • @Abken.
    @Abken.3 жыл бұрын

    Don: "We'll brew it for 25 seconds" ...50 seconds later...

  • @rolandkovacs6366
    @rolandkovacs63663 жыл бұрын

    First 😄 I tasted Taiwanese black tea, it became my favorite. The smell almost cuts into your nose. Extremely fruit notes.

  • @CRAMDVoiceLessons
    @CRAMDVoiceLessons3 жыл бұрын

    I knew all my sacrilege of brewing yunnan blacks and taiwan oolongs together wasn't in vain.

  • @russellgallman7566
    @russellgallman75663 жыл бұрын

    I will take a pouch on the cinnamon note any time. Love the dove singing in the background too.

  • @doryman3
    @doryman33 жыл бұрын

    You’re right, Don; black tea gets short shrift. Maybe because it is everywhere and so often awful. But pinnacle black teas can be so distinct, so unique. Frankly, my amateur palate can find distinctions between black teas much more easily than between sheng pu-erhs. Keep the black teas coming!

  • @beth.7
    @beth.73 жыл бұрын

    Sounds so enticing! All those little curlicues into which tea production is branching out and their results ... I hope Forest Jam stays around for a while. It would be interesting to compare this to Little Tong Mu.

  • @denzilflack5204
    @denzilflack52043 жыл бұрын

    Sounds lovely Does anybody else have their senses confused when watching a video like this but drinking a completely different tea!?

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂 Yes, did it once before. It was a confusing experience. ... I purposefully fetched out Wildwood Black for this video as soon as I knew what was going on. That worked. 😇

  • @denzilflack5204

    @denzilflack5204

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beth.7 That was a good idea. that’s a decent black tea.

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed! What was your choice, btw?

  • @denzilflack5204

    @denzilflack5204

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beth.7 Id already had some Mei leaf Anji bai and had just started some ages white tea cake thing i’d recently got from Curious tea.

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@denzilflack5204 Nice! But different, that's true.

  • @Tech419z
    @Tech419z3 жыл бұрын

    Ohhh please keep this in stock I need this soon but funds and all that!!!!

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, for me too!

  • @zakuzagb1539
    @zakuzagb15393 жыл бұрын

    great to see more black teas - i think its one of my favourites. ordered some of this one the other day and its amazing.

  • @bryanchen4559
    @bryanchen45592 жыл бұрын

    The cultivar name Ruan Zhi literally means soft stem.Better known as Ching Hsin(literally means green tip)which is small leaf variety grown to make late harvest high mountain oolong in Taiwan.There are a handful of varieties which are used to make Taiwan oolong tea amongst which Ching Hsin is most prevalent one.As for Oriental Beauty we mainly use Ching Hsin Da Pang literally means green tip large shrubs.It's a thicker,harder darker and sharper tooth leaf variety grown in lower altitudes in northern Taiwan.Cheers!

  • @ongoingmartin
    @ongoingmartin3 жыл бұрын

    Ooh, you said port... 😋 Many years ago, before tea, I loved to drink port. Exciting to hear those notes in a black tea! 🍃💚🍃

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    I still love port. 😉 How about you?

  • @ongoingmartin

    @ongoingmartin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beth.7 I'm sure I would still love port, but I haven't drunk alcohol for years. The draw to tea is just too strong that nothing else gets a look in!

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ongoingmartin 😂 - has happened to me too at times, especially when I drink shu pu erh at night. Then I just go on and on ...

  • @leightoncooke
    @leightoncooke3 жыл бұрын

    My early morning tea is a mix of single estate Darjeeling first and second flush. In the afternoon I drink Sencha. If you can deliver to the EU, I would love that gaiwan with a friendship cup tea set. This tea sounds insane!

  • @tomasdjng
    @tomasdjng3 жыл бұрын

    Enjoying a delicious yancha while watching mei leaf?, Yes please👍👌

  • @andrewshippy6623
    @andrewshippy6623Ай бұрын

    Truly, one of my favorite Meileaf teas. The "hybrid" Taiwanese/Yunnan combo worked magic! However, every time I watch this video, I feel bad for the asthmatic mourning dove in the background :)

  • @GregAndBeth
    @GregAndBeth3 жыл бұрын

    Very informative video! Have you ever tried Yaupon Holly tea? It's a bush that is native to parts of North America. I guess it's not technically tea since it's brewed with a different plant. Anyway it's seems to be growing in popularity and there isn't much info about it on the web.

  • @jiriurbanek211
    @jiriurbanek2113 жыл бұрын

    Is it a new shirt? lovely

  • @askialuna7717
    @askialuna77172 жыл бұрын

    For me, curiosities have an additional appeal. Since I'm still pretty much at the beginning, I haven't been able to try and buy so much of it yet. In my collection I have a Chinese Sencha which has been processed into black tea. I thought that didn't work because the damping prevents oxidizing, but somehow it works. Is it actually possible that black teas are not always so dark? I once bought a black tea and an Oolong in a tea shop, and the Oolong was much darker than the black tea.

  • @alohm
    @alohm3 жыл бұрын

    I prefer oolong. Formosa is my only source.

  • @BlakeP16
    @BlakeP163 жыл бұрын

    Already a dislike and the video hasn’t even been finished by anyone. Smh..

  • @beth.7

    @beth.7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, there's always that one. Someone hasn't their reflexes under control ...