“Well. Who am I to resist a Keemun? You will never find the perfect Keemun if you do not try all the ones you come across. No need for samples here, as I have never met a Keemun I could not drink....” Read full tasting note
“I received a lovely tea package from the (even lovelier) Angrboda and I was excited to see it included this tea – after all, she speaks highly of it and I do enjoy a good Keemun! Happily, I’m not...” Read full tasting note
For many years the only tea production in the Anhui province was green tea, but in 1870 Yu Quianchen decided to try his luck with black tea. After a study trip to the Fujian province, he returned and started up three gardens.
That was the beginning of one of the biggest tea successes in world history. In quite a short time this became the most asked for tea in England and in the beginning of the 1900s it became – to enormous irritation in Darjeeling – seen as the world’s finest tea.
Keemun stil has a very proud and self-aware tea production and every year quite exceptional teas are sent on the market.
This version is a stout small-leafed morning tea with the characteristically spicy flavour and a low content of tannins.
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