Organic Black Gold Tips from Treasure Green Tea Company

golden_tipsTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Black

This tea is available from Amoda Tea.

Tea Description:

Organic Black Gold Tips is an excellent black tea for every morning. It has visible golden tips that provide smoothness and sweetness. Enjoy alone or with milk.

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Taster’s Review:

I’ve noticed a sort of trend in my tea drinking and I think that Amoda Tea has helped me fully realize this trend.  I guess that I’ve always been aware of it, but I have a strong preference for black tea and when I’m given a selection of several different teas, if there is a black tea among the selections, that’s the tea I will usually reach for.  Such is the case with this Organic Black Gold Tips from Treasure Green Tea Company – one of the four teas featured in this month’s Amoda Tea Box.

This is a really lovely Black tea.  I love that it’s organic.  But even more than that, I love that it’s rich and full-flavored.  It’s deliciously smooth and pleasantly sweet with notes of caramel and cacao.  It’s full-flavored and robust without a lot of astringency and no bitterness.

I brewed this in my Breville One Touch tea maker.  I eyeballed it – but by the looks of it, the sample from Amoda was just enough for 500ml of tea!  So I poured 500ml of freshly filtered water into the jug and emptied the pouch into the basket.  Then I set the timer for 2 1/2 minutes and the temperature for boiling (212°F).

This created a perfect pot of tea – and with my awesome tea mug (a Christmas present from my daughter, Amethyst) – it’s actually a full cup of tea.  This baby holds 16 ounces of tea!

And this tea is quite lovely.  The kind of black tea that I like to start my day with because it IS rich and malty and full of flavor.  It’s smooth.  It’s not bitter.  There is very little astringency.  It’s all those things that make me so happy when I drink a cup of tea.

As I continue to sip, I start to explore beyond those notes of cacao and caramel.  There are notes of leather and almost a tobacco-ish sort of flavor.  Molasses.  Hints of warm spice.  There’s a lot of complexity to this tea.

A really lovely tea – I’m glad it was part of this month’s box from Amoda Tea.