Dog - Chinese Zodiac Blend
Regular price $9.25Style: Black
Origin: Blended at Westholme
Ingredients: Assam, Cardamom, Pure Vanilla Bean
Description: A tea you can trust. Honest and friendly, yet robust, with a playful amount of cardamom and a treat of vanilla. Barks with milk or milk alternative, and will fetch the honey.
Year of the Dog - 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 2006 2018 2030
Tasting Notes: Naturally sweet and complex on the nose, the vanilla bean adds a lovely, subtle cream to the texture of this tea's aroma and palate. The unique perfume of the cardamom, reminiscent of deep citrus, enhances the strong steep and malt of the Assam tea with freshness on the palate. The linger is luxurious and sweet.
Brewing Instructions: 2g per cup. 100ºC water. steep 3-5 minutes
*This is the same tea blend as Black Cardamom*
Organic
China has a rich and ancient tradition of producing high quality teas of all varieties, and black tea is no exception. This is where tea culture and industry, as we know it, began nearly 2,000 years ago.
Known as ‘Red Tea’ in China, the tea leaves from the Camellia sinensis sinensis plant are smaller and finer than their Indian counterparts, the Camellia sinensis assamica, and prefer cooler mountainous regions. Usually plucked by hand and gently processed, the end result are exquisitely fragrant teas with lesser levels of astringency and a soft body.
Several Chinese provinces are famous for their regional tea selections: Fujian Province is home to the well-known, pine-smoked Lapsang Souchong, while Keemun tea, the official choice of the British Queen, is produced in Anhui Province. Yunnan province produces the ever-popular varieties of Yunnan black tea and is also the region where China started its tea cultivation.
We invite you to experience our very unique twelve artisan-blended, loose leaf teas inspired by the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac – Rat, Pig, Horse, Goat, Rooster, Ox, Snake, Monkey, Tiger, Dog, Rabbit, Dragon.
We crafted the line of teas so that there would be something for every palate. The final result is four black teas, four green teas and four herbal infusions each conforming to some degree to the characteristics of the animal they represent.
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