Description
This black tea is flavoured with freshly harvested lotus flowers. The tea is blended with stamens so that the flavour is absorbed by contact. Over a thousand flowers are needed to produce 40 kilogrammes of lotus tea. A rare and highly delicate flavoured tea.
This Grand Cru is flavoured with lotus flowers, and is characterised by an astounding velvety texture, revealing intense and mysterious dark fruit notes.
Special qualities
- Origin:
- Yên Bái, Vietnam
- Tea colour:
- Black tea
Tasting notes
Dry leaf
Appearance: big twisted leaves
Colour: dark brown
Notes: lotus flower, riped fruits, honeyed
Brewed leaves
Notes: lotus flowers right at the start, honeyed, grapes
Liquor
Colour: amber
Texture: velvety
Flavour: sweet, with a delicate bitterness
Notes: floral at the start with intense lotus fragrance, grapes, blackcurrant, waxed and honeyed (pine honey), with liquorice hints
Suggestion of preparation
Grands Crus: savour the exceptional
Rare and ephemeral, teas identified as Grands Crus by Palais des Thés are the result of alchemy between a tea plant variety, its terroir and the talent of an artisan grower. Meticulously plucked, processed and sourced in the most respected tea gardens, our Grands Crus unveil unique flavours that reflect the refinement of their origins.