Wilderness Black Tea review

This is my first time trying tea from Chaliland. They were kind enough to send me some samples and I shared them with my local tea tasting team. We were all sincerely impressed with the first we tried, the Wlderness Black, a Wuyi hong cha.

My wife and I drink a LOT of Wuyi teas, and Wuyi blacks like jin Jun mei and zheng shan xiao zhong are in our standard rotation each week. The Graham cracker notes of the latter are a familiar comfort taste we pull out after a hard day. The plum notes of some other Wuyi hong cha are worth savoring and brought out when my daughter comes to visit.

This hong cha is a different beast altogether. Instead of notes like Graham crackers, raisins or plums, it invites you to the adult table for a smooth and refined plum wine experience. It is somehow but subtle and rich, mellow but bursting with flavor. When you are done with your infusions you want to see if you can push the leaves a bit more for one more brew, or give the spent leaf a last smell goodbye. It's a unique enough experience that I wanted to write this review, something I don't do often.

It is a bit expensive at a little over a dollar a gram, but it's one of the few teas that I would actually call top tier. It's worth the experience if you have the chance.