Imperial Grade Qimen Black Tea of Huangshan

Name: Imperial Grade Qimen Black Tea of Huangshan
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop
Price: 7.0 USD
Availability: InStock

by Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

$7.00 - $190.00

$7.00

$7.00 - $190.00

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This is our Imperial Grade Qimen (aka Keemun) harvested in Huangshan county of Anhui. Qimen Black Tea (祁门红茶) is among the most famous black teas in China and has been consumed in the west for well over a hundred years. Its fame is well deserved, and is derived from the unique Huangshan Mao Feng varietal and ideal growing conditions unique to the Huangshan area of Anhui.

Our Qimen Black Tea is a Mao Feng varietal and is also known as 特级香螺.

Qimen Black Tea is delightful to drink, never astringent, it brews up a sweet, chocolatey, and malt tea soup with some light floral notes. The floral taste rather than conflicting with the malty sweetness accentuates it and adds additional dimensions of complexity to this elegant tea.

The Imperial Grade Qimen is thick, sweet, fruity, and malty. It's very full-bodied and will steep 8+ times gong fu style. We recommend brewing with 90-95C water. The leaf and bud sets are small and to gradually coax out the flavor we recommend keeping the first 3 steepings around 15-30 seconds each.

April Harvest

Harvest Region: Anhui Province, Huangshan Prefecture, Qimen County

We also offer a Premium Grade and a Competition Grade as well!

Overall rating: 4.6666665 / 5 from 12 reviews.

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Okay

"This tea is dynamic. Each steep tastes different. However, I find it rather okay ish. It reminds me of how a black tea from a teabag should taste. Don't get me wrong, it still tastes way better than a teabag tea, but I find it just a bit boring. Maybe I should use the word "balanced" in positive terms. It does everything just good enough I guess. It seems that I prefer more unbalanced flavor profiles."

— Steve L. (3/5)

Sweet ans silky

"Hight quality, sweet and silky"

— Szabolcs I. (5/5)

Full

"I bought a black tea from adagio teas a while back that was called Fujian baroque. This tea is like that tea but has a more full flavor and mouth feel. It felt like something was missing. This tea is far better."

— Gabriel J. (5/5)

All the keemuns I bought

"All the keemuns I bought before, have too much astringency (in my opinion). This one is the first black tea of Qimen, whitout noticeable astringency! Pleasant surprise!"

— Vytenis G. (5/5)

Best keemun ever

"Keemun particulièrement parfumé, presque fleuri (rose). . . Une merveille."

— Yves S. (5/5)

Excellent, classic, and balanced

"Sweet citrus and mango flavors are backed by a robust malt backbone. A slight bitterness and astringency gives the tea a a pleasing bite and body -- a classic black tea experience. No flavor or sensation dominates the other in this complex and well balanced tea. 92 C and short steeps for the first few infusions."

— Chaz B. (5/5)

Holy Cats was this good!

"Malty sweet full bodied goodness. Everything I love about rich black teas was packed into the flavor of this tea. One of those teas that make you wish you’d bought more."

— Wendy (5/5)

Try It

"Great choice for the price and easy drinker but lacks depth in charter of other more full bodied teas."

— BROCK F. (4/5)

Worth it!

"Good tea for it's price. There are better ones, but more expensive. This is smooth and pleasant, hints at chocolate while keeping that body and depth of a good black tea. It's not lip-smacking amazing, but it's really good."

— Jan K. (4/5)