Big Red Robe
Big Red Robe
Big Red Robe
Big Red Robe

Big Red Robe

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Tea: Big Red Robe (Da Hong Pao - 大红袍)
Type: Charcoal Roasted Wuyi Rock Oolong
Harvest: Spring 2024
Roast Type: Heavy
Region: Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, China
Producers: Master Wu
Tasting Notes: Milk Chocolate, Wet Stone, Vanilla Bean, Tobacco, Rock Sugar


Da Hong Pao is one of the most famed varietals of Wuyi Rock Oolongs and can trace its origins to the 6 or 7 mother trees, which still grow from the rocky cliffs of Zhenyan in the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Reserve.  While very little tea is gets made from the mother bushes, the legacy of this varietal has been exported far and white, and many producers make their teas in this well-roasted, mineral focused style.

As soon as the dry leaves are placed in a heated vessel, the aroma of milk chocolate and wet stone immediately begin to surface.  Once wet, the leaves begin to exude tobacco and cedar wood aromas, with something more like culinary spice on the lid.  This spiciness actually reaches down into the leaves as the session continues on, revealing the complex qualities of the leaf under the roast.

The liquor is a rich amber red, and thickly textured on the tongue.  The flavors are mineral sweet with a hint of rock sugar and vanilla bean.  The key attribute of this tea is the richly complex mineral and rock notes to the brews, while delivering warm and soothing infusions with dried herbs and rain on rock notes rising from the cup.

To check out how this Big Red Robe compares with the other teas from this year, be sure to browse our Wuyi Yancha Sampler!



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09/22/2024
Anonymous
Ireland Ireland

A delicious and balanced dark roast oolong

Notes of vanilla, some very slight hint of floral notes, coffee, as well as roasted flavours (nutty, charcoal). Delicious tea, thick mouth texture and quite a warming and calming energy. For me, an important thing about this tea is that despite the heavy roast, the brighter and darker flavours are balanced and keep the tea interesting during the whole experience. Excellent sustain: at around 7-8 steeps the flavours are still very potent, it could probably easily go 12-15 steeps. On later steeps the brighter vanilla and floral notes go away, and the nuttiness becomes more dominant. (Used 4 g of tea in a 70 mL porcelain gaiwan with 8-14 second infusions with boiling water)

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07/26/2024
Niko
United States United States

Heavy Roasted!

I like this oolong quite a bit but just want to caution that it is quite heavily roasted. I had the opportunity to try a few different da hong pao teas with varying roasts through my local tea scene side by side (gaiwan next to gaiwan?) and the more intense roast shapes this oolong in such a fun way. I love the way this tea develops through each steep, the chocolate and tobacco notes really shine with a lovely minerality undertone.