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Xiao Qing Gan (Tea Orange)

Xiao Qing Gan (Tea Orange)

$ 4.50
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This pocket-sized all-day tea packs hours of flavor into a tiny green mandarin orange peel with a tiny peel hat! The richness of earthy cooked puer tea meets the bright citrus aroma of tangerine peel. Clean and funky all at once with a complex flavor profile that evolves over a million brews!

A session with this tea can be between ten to thirty infusions, depending on your brewing method. We like this one brewed in a large pitcher and decanted into a little teapot, or run through a series of brews with a gaiwan setup. Three cheers to the wonderful Changsha Wufeng Farm in Yunnan, China for this gorgeous little ball of joy!

Ingredients: Green mandarin orange-aged Chinese puer tea

Approximately 65mg of caffeine per cup

Steep at 205° F or 96.1°C for 1-3 min, adding one minute to your brew time for each new infusion.

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Dan K
floral citrus with very assertive earthy base

It's ok, I guess? I thought that this would be the one I would enjoy the most of the four aged teas in my purchase so I saved it for last, but oh my was I mistaken. Do aged/dark puerh teas get put inside oranges sometimes? If so, I would probably enjoy that more. The citrus was great! I got a lot of citrusy and floral notes in this one along with something akin to vanilla maybe. None of that was enough to counter the assertiveness of this tea, though. It wasn't, like, the most terrible thing I've tried or anything like that, but (probably) not something I really care to repeat.

Tea was very, very earthy in early brews, to the point that I told my spouse that I could not drink the first couple of brews because they tasted so strongly of what I remembered eating earthworms as a kid tasting like. And while that did tone down throughout the dozen-ish brews I took this through, it was always very dirt-forward and metallic to the end. I don't know if that is a feature representative of this variety of tea. I only purchased a single tea orange and have never experienced a tea orange from any other source before.

I may purchase one more tea orange before deciding whether to write them off for myself for the future. I think the deep, deep, dark earthiness of this tea could provide an outstanding counterpoint utilized as an ingredient in a blend with some other things that are much, much more floral or spice forward and I think I may enjoy experimenting with that possibility.