Tea Tasting Session - Jin Jun Mei Black Tea
- Harvey Cocks
- May 13, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 1, 2020
In this blog post, I will be reviewing and tasting a very popular premium black tea called Jin Jun Mei from What-Cha.
I will be talking about the tasting notes I found when tasting the tea, the aroma of the tea, several tasting infusions and finally expressing my overall opinion about the tea.
Please note that today's tea tasting is not in any way sponsored, the tea I am tasting has been bought by me from their own shop. Links as always will be posted at the bottom!
To begin with, as shown in the photos below you can see my tea gear/setup.
I have my Jianshui clay teapot from Crimson Lotus, my Jianzhan dragon styled clay teacup and finally my Mei Leaf Gong Fu Code tea tray with a glass pitcher and metal mesh filter.
Taking a further look at the packaging you can see some nice information about the tea specifically such as the origin, harvest and instructions to brew. Onto the leaves, you can see some notes of golden, brown and maroon coloured leaves making this a lovely tea to show off.
The smell of the dry leaves portrays a sense of dark chocolate notes, a slight sweet note and to finish off a lovely earthy and woody smell. I personally love so far how this tea can portray several notes in one just from the dry leaves. Already I am loving this tea.
After the tea rinse, the tea leaves immediately start changing to a darker colour and the smell hits hard of warm oak/woody notes still whilst being accompanied with dark chocolate notes, coffee beans and noticeable smokey smell to the tea.
Onto the 1st infusion, visually the liquor colour of the tea is a very nice warm orangey-brown, and the smell only gets better with a more malty smell. Now onto the taste, to begin with you can taste malty, earthy and woody taste notes followed up by a dark chocolate/coffee bean-like taste. The aftermath of the tea leaves a slightly bitter taste in your mouth but starts to fade away gradually.
As the infusions increase the tasting notes start to change into more heavy notes of the wood/oak tree tasting notes and leaves you feeling very warm and cosy inside your chest whilst a pleasant bitterness stays on the palette of your tongue.
But something also quite interesting to see is the colour of the leaves turning into a dark brown-like colour all across the board.
Overall I think this black tea is a must-try for those out there wanting something quite different from a strong regular builders breakfast or blended black tea due to the fact that the tasting notes offer a very nice variation as you drink more and more creating lovely tasting notes in your mouth.
If you would like to buy this tea, click on the link below from What-Cha:
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