Thanks yyz for the hint to brew this slightly cooler than I would usually for a black tea to really bring out those delicious cocoa notes.. At 100C all I got was sweet potato and bread, but at 85-90C the aroma and taste of this tea changed to this amazingly malty, chocolatey goodness, seriously the aroma was so fantastic I wanted to fill my bathtub up with this tea and just soak in it!! Unfortunately it was a sip down which means another yunnan sourcing order is in my very near future… just as soon as the imposed budget will allow!
Hahaha how many of us would take a tea bath if we were able?
I’m so glad you liked it this way. This is one of my favourite styles of tea:-)
Mikumofu: so very very true!!!
yyz: Thank you soooooo much for the hint… it was good at the ‘wrong’ steeping parameters but its delicious at the ‘right’ :D