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.

Browse more keemun tea in the Tea Finely Brewed marketplace.

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Post categories: Black tea, Tea reviews
Post tags: keemun, Orange Tea Co

Thank you to Dan for pointing this out to me. After Dan’s comment, I checked a couple of my books about tea and discovered that yes, I was completely wrong. And I felt a bit silly, until I ran a Google search for keemum tea and found 411,000 results ? a figure that outnumbers the 378,000 currently being returned for keemun tea.

Seems I’m not the only one who’s a little confused.

So to all you who have stumbled across this on a quest to rectify your ignorance, I assure you: It’s keemun, not keemum.

By the way, one reason I’m posting this is to try to fix a problem with my RSS feed, which isn’t updating as it should. Let me know if any of you are noticing some funny stuff.

© Eric for Tea Finely Brewed, 2009. | Keemun, not Keemum | 2 comments |
Post categories: Black tea
Post tags: Keemum, keemun