Feng Qing #17 Pure Bud Golden Needle Black Tea (Spring 2021)

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea
Flavors
Brown Sugar, Fruity, Muscatel, Prune, Stonefruit, Sweet
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Caffeine
Medium
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Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 4 g 5 oz / 150 ml

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Feng Qing is a relatively new varietal first planted in the late 1990’s. It’s a hybrid of local Feng Qing Taliensis and Assamica. The leaves and buds are huge, and our pure bud pick is just large downy buds expertly processed with light level of oxidation to produce a clean tasting balanced tea with notes of malt and chocolate. Sweet and thick-bodied tea that is hard to over-brew.

If you are a fan of pure bud teas that have malt and chocolate sweetness then this tea might well be the one for you!

Late May Harvest (2nd Flush of Spring)

Feng Qing, Lincang, Yunnan

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https://yunnansourcing.com/products/feng-qing-17-pure-bud-golden-needle-black-tea

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Feng Qing #17 Pure Bud Golden Needle Black Tea -Yunnan Sourcing, Spring 2021
4.96g, 150ml ceramic gaiwan

Dry tea
Appearance:
Fully gold with some dark brown accents interspersed
Mostly full intact buds, very fuzzy leaves
It’s one of the prettiest black teas I’ve seen.
Smell: Deeply fruity, prunes, figs, candied stone fruits, sweet

Wet tea
Appearance:
Dark khaki brown with dark brown accents
Intact fuzzy golden buds
Smell: Almost musky, Figs, Prunes, sweet, light animal notes, brown sugar, creamy

Infusion 1: 212°F, 150ml, 10s
Appearance: golden amber, rich, bright, clear, almost jewel tones
Smell: light animal notes, light prunes, sweet
Taste:
Prune retronasal action. Creamy taste, crisp mouthfeel, candied fruit, a little musky on the finish/back end. Almost savory, sweet, no bitterness

Really nice, pleasant. I like this a lot. It’s fruity and crisp. Pleasant drying astringency.

Infusion 2: 212°F 15s 150ml
Appearance: bright vivid amber, clear
Smell: deeply fruity, candied stone fruits. Fruitier than the first infusion. Light muskiness, sweet. Dates? Prunes? Not quite prunes. Richer, brown sugar
Taste:. No retronasal smells before swallowing. The finish was sweet, lightly fruity with indistinct stone fruits. Sweet, but a little hollow and watery. It lacks body. It’s still crisp, but empty and not mouth-filling. It feels like a fourth infusion of a medium quality tea.

Infusion 3: 212°F 30s 150ml
Appearance: rich amber, vivid, clear
Smell: sweet figs, watery. Lacks body.
Taste: Empty retronasal. Very weak finish. It basically tastes like nothing. It’s vaguely sweet water. It doesn’t even taste fruity. Extremely weak body, crisp mouthfeel, thin, watery.

The first infusion is amazing, but after that it completely falls flat. I’ve never had a tea fall apart like this and it makes me sad because it started phenomenally.

Flavors: Brown Sugar, Fruity, Muscatel, Prune, Stonefruit, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 4 g 5 OZ / 150 ML

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