ZI RAN RED | black Format:SAMPLE kyobancha is a green tea

kyobancha is a green tea of mature and/or late-flush material that undergoes a roasting process

| YABUKITA by SHINYA FUKUDA

which takes awhile with this one

a must for exacting tea drinkers who value a consistent extraction

ZI RAN RED | black Format:SAMPLE kyobancha is a green teaZI RAN RED is an unsmoked zhengshan xiaozhongor, lapsang souchongproduction from Tongmu, Fujian province, China. Like ZI RAN SMOKE, this lot comes to us from Zi Ran Hong, a centuries old smokehouse about 4 hours from Wuyi national park. For this production, the smokehouse, or qing lou ("green house", where lapsang is smoked with pine wood) was irrelevant; this is a modernist unsmoked lot. Save the smoking, this hong cha ("red tea") is produced