Warm Elephant is a fascinatingly aromatic black tea with very good longevity. The range of aromas is quite impressive with notes of black cherry, chocolate, wood, winter honey, tamarind, and caramelized onion in dry leaves. When wet, the associations are those of banana, cedar wood, medium roast coffee, vanilla, rice, and cranberries.
First infusion has some coffee sourness and mineral sweetness with a biting finish to it. It has full body with a sort of slimy mouthfeel and once again a very aromatic aftertaste with hints of hazelnuts and fenugreek seeds. Subsequent steeps show some woody (cedar) and fruity (peach) notes with even more sweetness and a lightly numbing and astringent mouthfeel.
I’d highly recommend this tea to any black tea lovers out there :)
Flavors: Cedar, Cherry, Chocolate, Coffee, Cranberry, Hazelnut, Honey, Mineral, Peach, Rice, Sour, Spices, Sweet, Vanilla, Wood
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Finally-a Taiwan Sourcing tea that is under $10 for 25 grams with a higher rating. I know that’s harsh and I’ve had some really great teas from them, but I’m happy that they offer something that good for a more affordable price since I’ve been let down by some of their stuff before.
yeah, I kind of get that. I would put Longan Nectar and Alishan GABA in that category too, but I haven’t had the recent iterations of the former and they don’t seem to offer the latter anymore.
They are sold out of the regular line up of Longan Nectar. They have a similar Jin Xuan one available, but 2017 or 18 looks like the last time it was sold. Longan Nectar was on my list for a while to get, but then I got distracted by getting more Wuyi Blacks.
In my wishlist. Sounds really interesting and tasty!
Finally-a Taiwan Sourcing tea that is under $10 for 25 grams with a higher rating. I know that’s harsh and I’ve had some really great teas from them, but I’m happy that they offer something that good for a more affordable price since I’ve been let down by some of their stuff before.
yeah, I kind of get that. I would put Longan Nectar and Alishan GABA in that category too, but I haven’t had the recent iterations of the former and they don’t seem to offer the latter anymore.
They are sold out of the regular line up of Longan Nectar. They have a similar Jin Xuan one available, but 2017 or 18 looks like the last time it was sold. Longan Nectar was on my list for a while to get, but then I got distracted by getting more Wuyi Blacks.
In my wishlist. Sounds really interesting and tasty!