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“A relatively new tea that was released as part of our Garden to Cup collection! This actually came out a few weeks ago but I wanted to drink it more recently before writing my tasting note for it....” Read full tasting note
“(DavidsTea 2022: 109) I’d been waiting for this tea to show up on the website for a while so I could use up a free tea reward on it, and I think it was worth it. I overleafed, not considering that...” Read full tasting note
We’re spiraling for this tea. Watch your tea leaves swirl into hypnotizing patterns as they steep, for a visual as decadent as the taste. A classic black tea of Southern China, our Golden Spiral comes from the Nan Dao He tea garden in Yunnan province. This blend is sensually rich and malty with notes of silky roasted cacao and dark cherry. Let yourself get lost in a moment of pure relaxation.
What makes it great
Golden Spiral is a classic malty black tea from Southern China, known for its spiraling leaves and hypnotizing patterns.
This blend is the key to waking up on the right foot. Make it a part of your morning routine for a minute of luxury before your busy day. Or a day of taking it easy.
Flavours finish with a slight spice, perfect for waking you up and getting the day started.
How it tastes
Velvety black tea featuring notes of roasted cacao and malt with hints of dark cherry.
Black tea from China.
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.
A relatively new tea that was released as part of our Garden to Cup collection!
This actually came out a few weeks ago but I wanted to drink it more recently before writing my tasting note for it. I’ve had it a handful of times prepared the Western way just hot and straight and I find that brewing it in that method brings out a little more sweetness and quite a bit of malty and woodier flavours, with just a hint of cocoa and red fruits. My favourite way to brew this one, however, is gongfu! It holds up really well and if you’re generous with your leaf to gram ratio you can just get the most beautifully robust and full bodied session!
On top of a pretty thick liquor and a hint of pleasant astringency, the tasting notes for a gongfu session range from very dark almost bitter baker’s chocolate to deep woodier notes and maltiness with a hint of very black cherry sort of “peaking out” from the undertones around the midsession mark, sort of as if to say that the reward for such an intense and more umami leaning session is this syrupy fruit note that breaks the mold of those earlier steeps even though it’s not necessarily a bright fruit note in and of itself.
I do hope we carry this tea for a while, even though it was released with the intention of being limited edition since it’s a small batch production, because it’s nice to see a solid quality Chinese black tea on the wall – right now our only (unflavoured) Chinese black tea is the Jasmine Black Pearls and though they’re delicious and malty in their own right, there’s definitely a difference between a jasmine scented tea and just a very good plain black…
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
(DavidsTea 2022: 109)
I’d been waiting for this tea to show up on the website for a while so I could use up a free tea reward on it, and I think it was worth it. I overleafed, not considering that the rolled leaves are more compact, so it wasn’t as smooth or flavourful as it could have been, but I did enjoy it. I think the profile went more in the malty hay direction instead of chocolate (I’d hoped for the latter).
