Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Honey, Sweet Potatoes, Apple Candy, Caramel, Tea, Apricot, Brown Sugar, Burnt Sugar, Butter, Cinnamon, Dried Fruit, Grain, Pastries, Raisins, Fruity, Sweet, Bread, Yams, Chocolate, Stonefruit, Cocoa, Malt, Vanilla, Cream, Smooth
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Caffeine
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Certification
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Edit tea info Last updated by looseTman
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec 5 g 9 oz / 269 ml

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  • “Soooo i haven’t had any tea since Sunday. When i woke up this morning i knew i needed a couple of old favourites to get me through the day since my next few weeks are going to be a little crazy. ...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Today I have been thinking about which teas I want to axe. We have a number of new flavors I would like to test out. Whether they will work out, I’m not sure but I do have a large number of ideas...” Read full tasting note
  • “Chinese New Year!!! Granddaughter Schey and I went to Happy Luckys after Church like we normally do, and hopped up onto the bar stools that we usually occupy. “Hey, what did you bring us today?!”...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Oh yum! I totally disregarded the directions (2tsp) & went with 1Tb + 8oz X 3min. YUM!! I have previously not been that impressed by this tea, but I love the way it looks, & because the...” Read full tasting note

From Butiki Teas

Our Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black originates from indigenous wild tea plants grown between 2,500 feet and 5,000 feet in the surrounding mountains of Yuchi Township in Taiwan. The tea picking season for this tea is July through August and the supply is limited because the tea is wild. During this time, the tea master will wake up around 4 a.m. to travel the mountains with local tea pickers in search of wild tea. Similar to our Gui Fei Oolong and Mi Xian Black, the leaves of our Wild Mountain black are also bitten by leafhoppers. These bites cause the plant to initiate the healing process which produces sweet honey notes. The honey aroma is unbelievably strong and inviting. Notes of fresh baked pastries and honey linger. Some gentle raisin and caramel notes are also present in this smooth and refreshing tea.

Ingredients: Taiwanese Black Tea

Recommended Brew Time: 4 minutes
Recommended Amount: 2 teaspoons of tea for 8oz of water Recommended Temperature: 212 F (boiling)

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203 Tasting Notes

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84 tasting notes

My second tea to try from Butiki, thanks to the lovely swap package from Courtney!

This is the one I have been waiting for! Wow, this is really unique and delicious!
The aroma is fragrant and rich with caramel and spice. The taste is so sweet, rich and smooth, with notes of the spices and caramel combined with dark honey and fruit. It’s almost like eating a bakery product – so good!!

Thank you Courtney for sharing this delicious tea!

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Yvonne

Wow, this sounds delicious!

Sil

this is one of those special teas…

Yvonne

Clearly!

caile

haha, it’s a special one for sure!
Sil – I just noticed you have a different picture of a little elephant – cute!

Sil

gasp it’s a HEFFALUMP! not an elephant…

Sil

…you just might be a woozle…it’s very confuzzle..

caile

LOL!!

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251 tasting notes

Oh this is a sipdown I’ve been dreading and putting off again and again. My very last teapot of Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black. You can’t see it, but I may need to wail and gnash my teeth at the horror of it all. Fortunately, these final sips of goodness do not disappoint. Honeyed pastries meet smooth malt with a hint of baked sweet potato and raisins. Good to the last drop, literally. Now someone just needs to convince Stacy to share her vendor with another seller so this tea can live on once Butiki is closed. Or at least hang onto the contact info so if Butiki resurrects in the future then I can order ALL OF THE TEA. Happy Thursday everyone!

Flavors: Honey, Malt, Pastries, Smooth, Sweet, Sweet Potatoes

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
QueenOfTarts

Can completely relate! I’ve been holding off drinking some of my Butiki teas because I won’t ever have them again!

looseTman

Has another source been identified? What current tea is the most like it? Or one that provides an even more full-bodied cup?

Nightshifter

Not that I know of. I also haven’t tried any other teas like it so far. I’d love to hear from others about this- great questions Tman!

Miss Starfish

Wow, Wow, wow! Butiki is closed/closing????

Nightshifter

Yeah, sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

Miss Starfish

I’m feeling a bit sick to my stomach (I’ve been blazing through my absolute favorite – caramel vanilla assam, with the intent to just order heaps more. It’s gone from the site.), but I’m so grateful to you as I’d much rather know, thank you so much. I’m so glad I saw your note. <3

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Oh wow! This tea has gotten very rave reviews and I was worried that I would be disappointed, but there was no need to be! This tea lives up to every rave review.
It smells divine, it’s hard to describe. Fruity and honey.
The leaves are beautiful and long.
The taste is delicious. Sweet waffle cones and a slight fruity note, but I am not sure that I would have said raisin. In later steeps, I get slight caramel notes.
This tea is so different than all other blacks. I have a feeling this one is going to be restocked frequently in my cupboard.

TheTeaFairy Each time I read a new review on this one, I can’t help go fix myself a cup…Here I go!
tigress_al

Lol, I’m glad I inspired you to drink this!

TheTeaFairy

Yes Tigress, it was a very good middle of the night cuppa, but sadly, it was also a sipdown:-(
The good news is I haven’t ordered any tea in a very long time, and I will restock on black friday! Can’t wait :-)

Butiki Teas

Black Friday is going to be crazy this year! Still working out the details but our giveaway prize this year will be a porcelain tea jar (last year was the gaiwan ;) ) and one of the days we are doing a bonus leafhopper tea and “I Love Leafhopers” magnet. I fully expect to be in the office 24/7 for the entire week.

TheTeaFairy

Awww, can’t wait, thanks for the heads up Stacy! You know, I’ve been drinking your magic potions all summer long, can’t wait to restock on my favourites! (sounds like you’ll need to gulp down gallons of strong highly caffeinated tea in order to go through it all!!)

Butiki Teas

I’m very excited about our Black Friday weekend! No problem, I like to spill a little detail. Next week we should have the complete details worked out ahead of time so that people can plan their attack. Oh yes, will be drinking tons of black tea and perhaps a few Kenyan CTCs. They really get me going.

tigress_al

Yay! Black Friday, can’t wait to see what the sales are! I need larger quantities of my favs!

Butiki Teas

tigress_al-The sales should be pretty awesome (at least I hope they seem awesome). :)

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166 tasting notes

My Butiki order came today and I went straight for this one because I had sampled it once before and had good memories. It is just fantastic. Leaf hopper teas are all great in my experience. I’m going to try to put a full review in later, but others have described it very well-honey, pastry, waffles. I am already thinking I will have to order it again before Stacy runs out!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec
Bonnie

Yum! I just ordered more!

Terri HarpLady

yeah, I’m due for a butiki order…

Bonnie

Don’t miss this one Little Terri will be mad!

Sil

I second that! Better get some Terri!

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336 tasting notes

Woo this is some smooth tea! There’s some kind of dark fruit drone I, once again, can’t quite pin down. I’m seeing the word “raisin” in the item descrip and that’s not quite right. It’s almost molasses or something, or some kind of berry-flavored syrup. NO astringency whatsoever.

I can see why people like this tea; to be honest, it’s a little too heavy/rich for me. Worth a try, at least, considering all I’ve heard about it.

Thanks to Nicole for the sample!

EDIT: I’m drinking cup 2, and now that it’s cooled down I’m getting the maltiness that I didn’t get in cup 1. It’s quite pleasant. Oddly, it makes me think of fall, too. It’s September. I’m OK with it being fall now…

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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863 tasting notes

I think I got this as one of my freebies in the Butiki Thanksgiving sale. That was such an amazing deal, so this is a tasting note for the 2013 season of this tea.

I’m actually still going through all of the teas I got from Stacy – and still trying to go through the fun samples I got from Sil. My unofficial new years resolution is to have at least a cup of tea a day, though, so I expect by the end of January that will catch me up. :)

I ordered this mostly because of how much I loved the Premium Taiwanese Assam, but reading the description of it and realizing how similar it sounded to a dan cong (the most beloved of oolongs for me) sealed the deal.

Steep notes: 4.2 g. tea to 500 ml. water in the Breville, below parameters. No additives.

Boyfriend is working from home today (SO. JEALOUS.) so when I got up and said I was making tea he perked up and asked what kind. I’ve been going for unflavored blacks lately which are his thing, so I put on the Breville for both of us. We are lucky to be at the bottom of the winter storm, but it still apparently feels like 4 degrees (and flurries – quite the rarity in Georgia) outside and so hot beverages are a necessity.

So I know Stacy said this tea was specifically NOT supposed to smell like chocolate but that’s really what I got from the dry leaf. I double checked that it was the right bag and it is, so maybe it’s just the different season. The leaves are gorgeous and spindly like a Dan cong or Verdant’s Mi Xian black.

Steeped, the smell is strangely kind of vegetal. Bready and vegetal. Starchy? Definitely savory. Maybe beans of some sort. There is a starchy mouthfeel and a roasty flavor with it, too. I love the apricot notes from dan cong but sadly, I don’t think I’m getting any here. The taste does linger in your mouth the way a dan cong does, though.

Overall I’m surprised at how savory this is – definitely not sweet, though maybe I need to go gongfu style to get these qualities? I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I’d be with the Western brewing, so I’ll try that way next time. Withholding the rating until I get a better sense of the tea.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec
Nightshifter

So interesting how tea is unique for everyone! I tried this for the first time today (Western 2tsp to 8oz boiling water for 4 min) and it tasted totally sweet and thick to my palate. :)

JoonSusanna

Interesting indeed! I’m not sure what I did but I have enough to try again, so we shall see if it was a one off! I’m glad yours tasted sweet – it gives me hope!

Butiki Teas

JoonSusanna-I definitely recommend using a gaiwan to brew this tea. It really shines with short steeps.

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This was on my shopping list, and Ysaurella so generously sent me a sample – thank you!

I have mixed experiences with a lot of highly rated on steepster teas. Not with this one, it is indeed absolutely lovely.

The smell of the dry leaf was on itself already intriguing, isn´t it amazing what tea leaves can smell like naturally? On first steep, it tastes amazing. Underneath it, the tea-ness of it, with hints of caramel and honey.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec
Ysaurella

I was sure you would love this one,it clearly desserves the high ratings here

TheTeaFairy

I agree with your mixed experiences Cteresa, But it’s hard to imagine someone NOT liking this one, isn’t it?

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I haven’t written a tasting note in a very long time, but this one deserves a review. Courtney sent me a sample of this, and I haven’t been overly thrilled with my straight black experiences in the past… so I put off tasting it.

This morning, in an effort to clear out some of my teas, I decided to give it a shot. I’m almost disappointed that I did, because it is so good that I now want to order it immediately, and I JUST placed a Butiki order last week.

It is delicious, sweet and honey-tasting, but also kind of earthy and spicy. Cinnamon, maybe? Whatever. I want more of it. I guess I’ll have to finish off some other teas to make room for it. Sigh.

Preparation
4 min, 0 sec

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1040 tasting notes

This is another tea from Sil Thank you very much for sending these to me, but I don’t like this either. Like PTA it’s just flat, unflavorful, tastes like nothing.

Bonnie

Hard to imagine. Brew in a gaiwan. This tea was the crown jewel of tea’s that I tasted last year. Hum….

Terri HarpLady

Oh well, to each their own, right?
:)

Dexter

And that’s what makes this site interesting, that we all have our own opinions….

Sil

just glad you got to try it before ordering a bunch :)

Bonnie

Heck no! I want to be right ALL the time! A dictator-ess, guanabana! You are all wrong and I alone am right! (Ok, I feel better now)

Bonnie

Haha… spell check wrote guanabana (a fruit that I like) instead of buahahah so I guess spellchecker wins!

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437 tasting notes

I’m really enjoying this bright and lovely tea this morning thanks to the generosity of CrowKettle.

After a four minute steep I’m left with a sweet scent that is a blend of citrus, sweet fruit such as tart plum, cinnamon, a hint of cardamon and nutmeg and a touch of floral like gardenia and rose cross.

The tea tastes sweet combining citrus/malt, honey, floral, plum, and spice notes. It is a pretty orange red colour, and tastes smooth but refreshing. as it cools it combines to create a taste like lemon scented waffles with a hint of sweet syrup.

The second steep is sweeter with stronger pastry notes. Caramel notes are present with hints of raisin.

Looking forward to further steeps throughout the day.

Thanks again for this very generous sample!

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