Tasting Notes
Smooth, complex with a rich nuttiness, soft fruit and malty, biscuity notes of vintage champagne.
Quantity
Use 0.4 oz of leaf per 35.5 fl oz of water (10g per 1000ml).
Temperature
For the optimum infusion use 40°F (4°C) water.
Time
Infuse for at least 8 hours in the fridge (or overnight – you don’t have to worry about over infusing).
Infusions
This iced tea blend is only suitable for one infusion.
Cost Per Cup
63¢ per cup based on 0.4 oz of tea per 35.5 fl oz of water, 5.5 fl oz servings and 1 infusion.
The finished rolled Sunset Oolong goes through an impressive precision cutting to create a finer-cut tea with a greater surface area for better extraction in cold water. It’s the finished loose leaf tea that is cut rather than the fresh leaf so that oxidisation doesn’t increase during processing.
When you hot extract a tea you start oxidisation of the leaf (like cutting an apple that starts to go brown) but by cold infusing the tea you’re not causing oxidisation or extracting the tannins. Instead, you are using osmosis to extract all the wonderful nutty, biscuity flavours and sweet carbohydrates.
Because this tea is created for cold extraction we don’t recommend using it to make a hot tea. But if you’ve set your heart on trying it, do a very quick extraction of just a few seconds because the tannins and other bitter properties will be very readily available.
If you’re serving cold infused tea with food, this is the most adaptable tea pairing - it goes with pretty much everything; sweet, savoury, umami (apart from sour).
If we were describing this tea as a dancing partner he would be more of a Fred Astaire than an Elvis Presley. By this we mean he likes to dance with a partner rather than shimmy on his own.
It really is the best iced tea for a tea and food pairing.
