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A soft and tasty tea with a delicate woody accent, absolutely worth a try. This tea hardly looks like the standard smoked tea. It tastes great with spicy and salty dishes and it is a great tea for drinking right after a meal.

The Lapsang Souchong is a black smoked tea from China. It is grown in the province of Fujian according to traditional methods and especially selected by Madame Tseng. The original name (Zhengshan Xiaozhong) means something like Zheng Mountains, small tea variety.

A black tea is completely fermented. The tea grows at high altitude and is picked by hand. It is manufactured with the machine. The picked tea is dried above a fire of coniferous wood for fading, until the first moisture is extracted. After this process the leaves are rolled and put in barrels, which are covered with rags for the fermentation process. Then the leaves are cooked and rolled again. Finally, the tea will smoke in bamboo baskets above glowing embers of dried spruce wood. This will take a few hours and will be monitored carefully.

A fresh sweet tea with a taste of walnuts and wood. In the fragrance you can also smell a hint of walnuts, straw and antique wood. This relatively young Pu Er has a kind of ripeness, which is so characteristic of vintage tea.

The Pu Er 1997 is a black vintage tea from China. It is grown on a plantation in the province of Yunnan. Here it is grown according to traditional methods and especially selected by Madame Tseng for De Eenhoorn.

A vintage tea is a black tea that is fully fermented and has to ripe for a long time. The leaves of this tea were picked in 1997. After picking, the leaves are dried in the air to extract most moisture. This is called withering. If the leaves are flexible enough to be processed, they are rolled by hand to start the oxidation process. The leaves have to ferment for a few hours and then are baked in convection ovens. In the end, the tea is stored in jars for a number of years to continue to mature.

Glazen filter geschikt voor het glazen theepotje van 250 ml.

A sweet, fresh and sparkling tea with a small tone of Jasmine blossom. This tea is wonderful to drink with a light fruit dessert.

The Yin Zhen is a white tea from China. It is grown in the province of Fujian, according to traditional methods and especially selected by Madame Tseng. The name of this tea means silver needle.

A white tea is an unfermented tea. Only the buds are picked, for a pure and elegant tea. The Jasmine blossom is picked in the evening because of the strong scent. A kilo of Jasmine tea requires ten kilos of blossom.

To add the taste of Jasmine to the tea, the blossom is placed on top of the spreaded tea for 24 hours. It is has to be refreshed constantly. The old blossom is removed before the scent disappears. In this way, the tea leaves absorb the scent of the Jasmine blossom, which obtain the Jasmin flavor. A natural process to make Jasmin tea.

Maak kennis met onze verschillende soorten Pu Er - Chinese vintage thee. Het proefpakket bestaat uit drie blikjes van 15 gram thee. De volgende half zitten in het proefpakket:

•  Pu Er 1987
   Een vintage thee uit 1987 die geperst is in blokjes. Een krachtige thee met een aroma van bosgeuren. Je proeft tonen van fruit en kamfer.
  
  
•  Pu Er 1992A
   Een vintage thee uit 1992. Het is een zoete thee met tonen van herfstbladeren, hummus en hout. 
  
  
•  Pu Er 1997
   Een vintage thee uit 1997. Een friszoete thee met tonen van noten en hout. 

Grote Japanse gietijzeren theepot. Deze theepot heeft een klassiek ontwerp en is verkrijgbaar in mooie kleuren. Geschikt voor 600 ml thee. Gietijzer behoudt de warmte optimaal, waardoor de thee nog langer warm blijft. Inclusief roestvrijstalen theezeef.