Holy Mountain Lotus

This black tea is flavoured with freshly picked lotus flowers. The tea is mixed with the stamens so that the flavour is transferred by contact. More than one thousand flowers areneeded to produce 40 kilograms of lotus tea. A rare, very refined flavoured tea.

A lotus-flavoured black tea with a silky texture. The complex notes of lotus flower (floral, aniseed, vegetal) blend with the fragrances of the black tea.

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This black tea is from Yên Bái province in Vietnam. This Sen Den, or Lotus black tea, is made from age-old Shan tea plants. It is harvested on the heights of Suoi Giàng, at an altitude of more than 1,000 metres. The name of this mountain, which is famous for its centuries-old trees, means "divine spring". Every spring, the village chief chooses a suitable day to celebrate the gods of the ancient forest and to pray that the year's harvest will be plentiful. It is a tea flavoured with freshly picked lotus flowers. The flowers are withered for 4 hours before the different parts are separated from one another (petals, seeds and pistils). The tea is then mixed with the seeds and stamens. The flavour of the lotus will thus be transferred by contact throughout an entire night until the stamens are completely dry. This resulting mixture is then heated to 40 degrees for 4 hours. Depending on the intensity of the desired flavour, the contact with the pistils will be repeated up to four times. The tea is then sorted by hand. This manual production process requires great know-how, dexterity and precision.