Keemun Panda #1 from Orange Tea Co.
My Father’s Day mug.
Do you like my mug? It was a Father’s Day present — my first ever — from Benedict.
Of course, Father’s Day was way back in September, so why the recursion into the past? Truth be told, my camera has a flat battery, so I don’t have any photos of today’s tea. Instead, you’ll have to make do with some choice pictures of the almighty mug I drank it from.
Today’s tea is Keemun Panda #1 from Orange Tea Co., who sent this to me as a free sample. Further disclosure: Orange Tea Co. have advertised on Tea Finely Brewed in the past.
This is one of those teas you start the day with, when what you’re after is a nice kick of caffeine and a tea with a bit of verve. The perfect tea to have in a big, hulking mug like my Father’s Day mug.
It’s a balanced, well-rounded tea. The flipside of that is that it doesn’t have anything that really jumps out at you; there are no surprising or unexpected flavours here. It’s just pure black tea, with that smoky quality that you would expect from a keemun, and some nice notes of honey as the tea cools.
The dry leaf, which consists of needle-thin, mostly broken leaves, suggests to me that this is a lower grade keemun. It’s on par with the keemun from Narien Teas that I reviewed in this post, though the Teas Etc keemun I reviewed in that post still trumps them both.
Keemun Panda #1 is available from Orange Tea Co. for $10.95 CA for 50 grams.
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