Black Keemun Imperial | Ying Kee Qi Men Hong Cha Wang - Option: 50 g

This black Keemun comes from the workshop of the famous Hong Kong producer Ying Kee Tea House. Hong Kong is not a typical market for black (red) teas, but over the years a number of black teas have become domesticated here, and Keemun tea is a typical example. Black tea in Hong Kong is of course a product of English culture, which had a free hand here before the takeover in 1997. It is not surprising then that black tea with milk, Hong Kong Nai Cha (Xiang Gang Nai Cha 香港奶茶), has got even more at home here. You can get it on every corner. A blend of several black teas is used for Nai Cha and one of them is Keemun, mainly for its extraordinary aroma and attractive taste.

Keemun Black Tea (Qi Men Hong Cha 祁门红茶) is a famous Chinese Black Tea. It is produced in the Keemun County (Qi Men Xian 祁门县) of Anhui. It is one of the Three Most Famous Black Teas in the world, with the other two Darjeeling Black Tea and Ceylon Uva Black tea. Unlike the other two big leaf cultivar black teas which come from a tropical zone, the Keemun Black Tea originates in a subtropical zone and the cultivar is typical Chinese small leaf - Zhu Ye Zhong. It features a kind of natural gentle creamy flavor which made this tea famous. Its taste is very mild and sweet. The extraordinary terroir of Keemun District creates unique conditions for growing tea of ​​unprecedented quality.

Qimen is located in the golden tea-producing belt at 30 degrees north latitude. The local natural conditions of "four mores and one less" - many mountains, many clouds, much fog, much rain, and little direct sunlight - provide an excellent environment for the growth of tea trees.

Keemun is a historical reputed black tea in China. It was produced during Qing Dynasty at the Keemun County and surrounding areas at Anhui Province (安徽省 An-hui Sheng). In the first year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1875), tea farmers in Anhui created Keemun black tea. Before that, Qimen only produced green tea, not black tea, and the market was not good at that time. Hu Yuanlong, a native of Guixi in the southern part of Qimen, planned to build a tea factory, using his own tea leaves and asking a master to try to make black tea. After continuous improvements, he finally made a high-quality black tea with excellent color, fragrance, taste and shape, and Hu Yuanlong became the founder of Qimen black tea.