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2025 “Purple Joy” Wild Black Tea
Wild black tea from the heart of the Thai jungle, where tea trees grow among other plants in biodiversity and harmony.
“Purple joy” is twisted into elegant curls, brewed into a semi-dark amber infusion. It is more oxidized than light oolongs, but still not deep. As a result, it opens up with a powerful, multifaceted palette of flavors.
The aroma of warm tea brings out the whole row of associations. There is a coniferous forest, dried fruit compote (mainly apples), St. John’s wort, and meadow herbs.
The taste is clear, dense, and feels familiar from childhood: apple-coniferous sourness, grape flavors, St. John’s wort, and rosebay willow-herb.
An important moment to emphasize. This is a Ye-Sheng black tea (from wild tree), and it differs greatly from regular black tea (from cultural Assamica). It's quite a different flavor profile. Be prepared for an unusual taste if you haven’t tried wild varieties before.
While drinking, you might get the feeling it’s a herbal tea in your cup, with dried apples and a drop of grape juice, but not a pure single-tea-tree-leaf tea. The pleasant sourness of wild tea only enhances this picture.
100% organic jungle tea, like the bulk of our teas, holds lots of steepings. Drinks easily and smoothly.
As with any Ye-Sheng, there is no bitterness at all here. Over-brewed, this tea will only bring up compote density.
The aftertaste’s worth being specially noted. Oily and long-lingering, where grape seeds flavors beautifully weaved with coniferous-herbaceous tones. Oily and long-lingering, where grape seeds flavors beautifully weaved with coniferous-herbaceous tones.
“Purple joy” will leave you with the softest relaxation. You probably won't have problems with sleeping after drinking this tea at night, but you should check it yourself.
Reviews (11)
The aroma of the tea is complex and multifaceted. Even in the aroma, there is a hint of sourness. What I clearly remember is the scent of rosehip and a touch of woodiness. In taste, there's a tartness, something reminiscent of red berries—maybe red currant, or perhaps wild strawberries or regular strawberries. A very interesting tea, unlike anything I've tried before, with a bright and rich flavor. Excellent tea, thank you!
The taste is pleasant, fruity, and floral. From infusion to infusion, it gets better and, in my opinion, tastes even better if you slightly increase the water temperature towards the end of the infusions. It seems to me that the flavor becomes more intense this way.
Really loving this one. Your description is spot on. lovely scent and quite a unique apple herb taste but more heavy on the apple. Been liking longer steeps with it too adding a real pleasant light bitterness with a amazing smooth mouthfeel. has a nice mellow and healing energy about it. could drink it all day!
Brief steeps (5-10 seconds) in 90 Celsius water.
Liquor is clear with a golden caramel in color.
Taste is unexpectedly different from a typical black tea.
It is much lighter and has got a touch of fruity-tanginess to the taste with a hint of floral note to the finish, and has a light sweet aftertaste.
Mouthfeel is slightly sticky with no astringency.
Wet leaves are dark bronzed-brown in color, giving off a faint aroma of a fruity light-brown sugar.
The strength of flavor starts to mellow down by the 5th infusion, thus best to steep longer from here onwards.
A longer (1 minute) steep gives a slightly deeper color tone to the liquor but no additional strength in flavor or aroma, not there is any astringency.
Overall, it is not a bold enough black tea to made into iced tea, best have it served hot to really get all of the different aspects of its aroma and flavor.
Very fragrant, with lychee and dark chocolate on the nose, and a clean, fruity, floral, and subtly tart taste. Uniquely light liquor for a black tea. Very relaxing; one of the only really enjoyable teas I've found that I can drink late into the evening without losing sleep.
I was visiting Thailand and Valerii was kind enough to invite me into his warehouse and provide a generous sampling of teas. So great to see such nice folks behind such nice teas!
TEASIDE comment:
Thank you, Nick! Come visit us again.
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