MAD MIX - China Black Tea made from a Taiwan Oolong Variety

This tea has all of the fruity fragrance of a Taiwan Oolong but with a spice and finish from being grown in Yunnan and processed into a Black Tea. A crazy, beautiful and enduring hybrid tea.

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[tinacarroll]

Black tea has become my love since discovering proper tea. So underrated.

[jasonblack]

Easily the sweetest black tea I've ever tasted.

[russellgallman]

I will take a pouch on the cinnamon note any time. Love the dove singing in the background too.

[rolandkovacs]

First 😄 I tasted Taiwanese black tea, it became my favorite. The smell almost cuts into your nose. Extremely fruit notes.

[denzilflack]

Sounds lovely
Does anybody else have their senses confused when watching a video like this but drinking a completely different tea!?

[OCteahead]

You’re right, Don; black tea gets short shrift. Maybe because it is everywhere and so often awful. But pinnacle black teas can be so distinct, so unique. Frankly, my amateur palate can find distinctions between black teas much more easily than between sheng pu-erhs. Keep the black teas coming!

[beth.]

Sounds so enticing! All those little curlicues into which tea production is branching out and their results ... I hope Forest Jam stays around for a while. It would be interesting to compare this to Little Tong Mu.

[zakuzagb]

great to see more black teas - i think its one of my favourites. ordered some of this one the other day and its amazing.

[bryanchen]

The cultivar name Ruan Zhi literally means soft stem.Better known as Ching Hsin(literally means green tip)which is small leaf variety grown to make late harvest high mountain oolong in Taiwan.There are a handful of varieties which are used to make Taiwan oolong tea amongst which Ching Hsin is most prevalent one.As for Oriental Beauty we mainly use Ching Hsin Da Pang literally means green tip large shrubs.It's a thicker, harder darker and sharper tooth leaf variety grown in lower altitudes in northern Taiwan.Cheers!

[ongoingmartin]

Ooh, you said port... 😋
Many years ago, before tea, I loved to drink port. Exciting to hear those notes in a black tea! 🍃💚🍃

[CRAMDVoiceLessons]

I knew all my sacrilege of brewing yunnan blacks and taiwan oolongs together wasn't in vain.

[Techz]

Ohhh please keep this in stock I need this soon but funds and all that!!!!

[tomasdjng]

Enjoying a delicious yancha while watching mei leaf?, Yes please👍👌

[Abken.]

Don: "We'll brew it for 25 seconds"
...50 seconds later...

[leightoncooke]

My early morning tea is a mix of single estate Darjeeling first and second flush. In the afternoon I drink Sencha. If you can deliver to the EU, I would love that gaiwan with a friendship cup tea set. This tea sounds insane!

[andrewshippy]

Truly, one of my favorite Meileaf teas. The "hybrid" Taiwanese/Yunnan combo worked magic! However, every time I watch this video, I feel bad for the asthmatic mourning dove in the background :)

[askialuna]

For me, curiosities have an additional appeal.
Since I'm still pretty much at the beginning, I haven't been able to try and buy so much of it yet. In my collection I have a Chinese Sencha which has been processed into black tea.
I thought that didn't work because the damping prevents oxidizing, but somehow it works.

Is it actually possible that black teas are not always so dark?
I once bought a black tea and an Oolong in a tea shop, and the Oolong was much darker than the black tea.

[GregAndBeth]

Very informative video! Have you ever tried Yaupon Holly tea? It's a bush that is native to parts of North America. I guess it's not technically tea since it's brewed with a different plant. Anyway it's seems to be growing in popularity and there isn't much info about it on the web.

[BlakeP]

Already a dislike and the video hasn’t even been finished by anyone. Smh..

[alohm]

I prefer oolong. Formosa is my only source.