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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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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It’s a bummer to underestimate how bad you are feeling. Especially when it comes to tea. I shouldn’t try new teas when I feel depressed. Don’t think I enjoy trying new teas as much when I feel this way. I knew last night was bad, but I didn’t expect to have a sad morning too xD So I’ll have to write a better review of this tea when I feel better.
This one wasn’t as strong as I thought it might be, but it was pretty good still.
I love how the tea itself looks, but it’s so hard to know how much to steep at once and how much not to. xD It said two tsp, but it’s hard to know how much it actually means by that. Well maybe it’s just me that’s confused!
As for taste this tasted a lot like honey and kinda fruity. One of the descriptions for the tea is “raisins”. And ya know, it kinda does taste like that a bit.
I hate raisins usually, but I still like this tea. Another great tea from Butiki! (:
Now on to comfort teas…

Flavors: Fruity, Honey, Raisins, Sweet

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This. I like this. Thank you Cavocorax!! Someone described this as tasting like waffles and I can definitely see why. There are delicious pastry notes in this cup with elements of cream and vanilla and sweet fruits. I can definitely see why this is so loved on this site. It will definitely be making it into my next Butiki order but until then, I shall savor the sample Cavocorax so generously shared.

Sami Kelsh

One of these days, I need to hoard masses of this tea. Every review I’ve read of it sounds genuinely glorious.

TeaLady441

Excellent!

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This was my breakfast tea this morning, and I was almost blown away by it. I knew it would be good, but it’s a little hard to imagine exactly how good until you taste it in person. For my first cup, I followed the pouch parameters and gave 2 tsp of leaf 3.5 minutes in boiling water. Appearance wise, this reminds me strongly of Premium Taiwanese Assam. The leaves are fairly thick, charcoal black/brown in colour, long and very twisty. Measuring is ever a problem, but I got there!

After 3.5 minutes, I’m presented with a fairly light honey-gold liquor. The scent is very bakey — waffles and bread. It’s warm, sweet, and inviting! The initial taste is fairly sweet, with notes of honey and caramel. The bread notes soon take over, however, along with a robust maltiness. It’s sort of yeasty, freshly baked artisan bread, with an edge of sweetness that really is reminiscent of waffles. Deeply rich, maybe almost too much. In the aftertaste, the honey returns with a refreshing note of apricot. Another lovely black tea with a lot to offer. There are definitely good drinking days ahead!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 2 tsp

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I must be steeping this wrong, because the only flavour I get is honey. It’s good, but I feel like it could be great. Anyone have any steeping recommendations that bring out more flavour? The instructions on the package don’t do it for me. I’ve had it a few times and I think 2 cups were “ERHMAHGAWD” and the others were good, but nothing exceptional. I really want to find the sweet spot with this one.

Butiki Teas

The absolute best way to prepare this is gongfu style, it really elevates the tea to amazing honey, pastry, malty goodness.

TheTeaFairy

Yes, yes!!! Total gongfu goodness :-)

MzPriss

Well I got some of this today and I’m doing that in the morning

TheTeaFairy

Oh, I envy you MzPriss…still a TWMB virgin….you will just freak out!!!

MzPriss

I’ve been gaiwan girl lately, so I will just go for it in the morning. I taught a couple of people at work to use a gaiwan today. I took some sheng and we shenged.

MzPriss

I’m looking foward to this and that Four Season Oolong – I may do both in the morning

SarsyPie

You took some sheng and you shenged? Lol. No one ever shengs me at work!

MzPriss

dude. It’s not the best idea I’ve ever had. I was obnoxious. They made me go in my office and shut the door. And I’m the boss.

Terri HarpLady

I’m getting down to the end of my TWMB, & I don’t think I’ve ever done a gongfu session with it. Maybe that will be my plan for tomorrow morning as well.

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What I love best about this tea is just how much flavor is packed in each sip without the malt aftertaste I’ve come to associate with the better black teas. The primary note for me is honey, with a bit of caramel towards the end. And it keeps going well after the cup is finished, subtler notes come out as the honey clears. Truly an excellent tea!

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I woke up this morning and wanted to listen to traditional irish music for some reason. This then led me to the decision that I should have a plain black tea for breakfast. I don’t know. It made sense at the time (pre-caffeine!). So, I decided to finish off my Wild Mountain Black. I think I appreciated it much more the second time. I added just the tiniest bit of sweetener and I could taste the syrup notes that everyone talks about much better. This really is a great tea, but I do prefer Butiki’s Black Lotus. That’s just for my tastes though!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Virginia

A Florida girl living in Minnesota, listening to traditional irish music while drinking taiwanese tea. We live in a beautiful world :P

mj

Haha I didn’t even think about it. What a nice way to look at things :-)

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If tere were ever a desert tea, Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black is the one, a simplified but extrodinary taste, a sweet journey into a unique flavor of fuirts, like a raisn.
A sweeter tea best accompanied with a teaspoon of honey.

Preparation
4 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
TheTeaFairy

Isn’t this tea just phenomenal? Yum!

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1353 tasting notes

From the queue

I recently received a large envelope from Courtney and among her offerings were lots of things that were breakfast compatible, so I decided to start with this one because I’ve heard many great things about it and am quite curious.

I’ll go straight to the point. I have to admit that I forgot to sniff the dry leaf (again), but I’m sniffing the brewed tea and… What is that it smells like? It’s familiar to me, but what is it? There’s a honey-note in there, but that’s not the note that is perplexing me. It’s honey with something but the more I try to pin it down, the more it seems to elude me. Something sweet, I think. Honey and something else that is sweet. But what? Some kind of dessert, I think, but that’s as far as I go. I know I’ve had some tea before that smelled like this, but I just can’t think what. I give up.

The flavour is quite mild and also quite sweet. It’s not malty or grainy sweet, it’s more honey and that infuriating something else note again. What IS it??? Whatever it is, it’s building up a magnificent aftertaste, like my mouth has been coated with honey and… whatever it is. It’s a much milder tea than I was expecting, but gosh is this good!

I wish I hadn’t shared it with Husband now…

Butiki Teas

croissant? waffle?

Angrboda

I could be something sort of waffle-y.

Butiki Teas

Maybe like a waffle cone? or baklava?

Angrboda

I’ve never had baklava, so I couldn’t say. It’s difficult for me to remember it exactly now, but I believe it was something like if you imagine the flavour of a waffle and then make it more sort of creamy… It’s been a few weeks now since I actually drank it. (I still wish I hadn’t shared with Husband, though. :p )

Butiki Teas

Baklava is pretty amazing! Definitely worth a taste. Hmmm, creamy waffle. Will have to think about that. Maybe like a snicker doodle ice cream or something.

Courtney

I’ve heard this one described as waffle-y and I could see baklava working too. This one is spectacular though, either way. :)

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From the description and reviews, I knew I would love this tea.

I knew it was my kind of black tea, sweet and non-astringent, with beautiful intact leaves, turning into liquor of ruby red color. And that’s what I got! The aroma is absolutely tantalizing, it smells just like honey (http://youtu.be/7EgB__YratE).

I was a little surprised by the taste. While it was honey-sweet, the sweetness would stop somewhere in mid-sip and turn into something more bready and doughy – a complex note that I haven’t experienced that much with similar black teas. The second steep is not as sweet as the first, and I don’t really mind it. It is definitely a kind of tea that is “the same but different” – just like the other Chinese, sweet blacks I have had, but more unusual.

While it doesn’t beat my (so far) favorite Jin Pin from Yezi, it is very close. It is something that I would like to re-stock, perhaps not continuously, but from time to time.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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In the last 6 months my tea palate has grown….and continues to grow. I last drank this tea at the beginning of my tea journey and had no place to place it in my experiences with teas… because my experience with teas was primarily assams and a few blends at that time. That was then…. this is now:

I am still surprised by the leaves…sooooooo big! Trying to measure a teaspoon full of leaves is quite hilarious, as the leaves stretch across the top of the spoon and don’t tuck themselves in. Thus, measuring is a bit of a crapshoot. The dry leaves smell like dark chocolate and dried raisins and prunes, which is a deep rich smell. In the cup, this is exactly as I remembered, but the wonder is in the fact that my palate has changed, as well as in the tea!
This is a complex tea that begins with bottom notes of prune, raisin and almost a chocolate molasses to midnotes of grain and baked bread to the wonderful top note of honey sweetness.
Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black seems to want to be kin to Bailin Gongfu or other Fujian teas, but is lighter, sweeter and more grainy. It doesn’t have the cannabis note that I get quite a bit from the Fujian teas, which for me is a breath of fresh air. (especially after the Motley Crue concert I was arm-twisted into going to last week.) I used to think this tea was too heavy for me and my palate. Now I am intrigued and pleased that I have this tea in my cupboard. It is a wonder-filled cup that all black tea drinkers should try.

Flavors: Bread, Chocolate, Grain, Honey, Raisins, Stonefruit

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 10 OZ / 295 ML
TheTeaFairy

I call this tea my spider legs tea…

Zack S.

Hi! Just wondering if you have any of this tea available to swap? Its one of my all-time favs and I’m trying to get my hands on more of it since it has become unavailable =(

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