Sanxia Organic Honey Black Tea (三峽蜜香紅茶)

Sanxia Organic Honey Black Tea is a rare black tea, which comes from biological organic farm in Sanxia district, near Taipei. The tea is organic certified.

Sanxia District, in Northern Taiwan is mostly known for its specialty Taiwan Green teas.

Although the name “honey”, it is pure tea leaf only. Just your mouth and throat feel smell sweet after drink. This unique honey taste tea gets due to special climate conditions and production process.

All processing is done entirely by hand, without the use of machines or mechanisms.

This is very special for its taste and limited kind of tea.

Leaves: dark nearly flat leaves

Taste

Clean and clear brew is golden emerald colored. Aroma is rich floral-fruity with a hint of peach. Taste is very soft with sugar and floral aromas with honey aftertaste. This tea is perfect for quiet afternoon or five o’clock tea.

Brewing

You can use any kind of tea pot, but porcelain tea pot suits much better.

Warm up the tea pot with the boiling water, put about 3 grams of tea, and pour small amount of the boiling water into the tea and pour out.

Then pour 225-250 ml of boiling water and cover tea pot for 3-5 minutes before serving.

Boiling temperature is 95-100°C (205-212°F).

Steep more for more concentrate and deep taste of the tea.

Additional information

This is one of the traditional ways of brewing. Depending on individual gustatory preferences you can vary brewing time from 35s to 5 minutes.

You can also use Chinese traditional way of brewing - spilling, using Gaiwan and brew for 3-5 second each time.

Please note, that it is natural tea with high content of active elements, including caffeine, and minerals and some unusual feelings could appear. In that case we recommend decrease quantity of dry leaves and brewing time.