Wildly popular Aged White tea series continues with a 2013 Shou Mei rich in jammy sweet aromatics, woodsy backbone and fermented fruits. A perfect example of the majesty of aged White Tea.
Blazing Heavens is the follow-up to our best-ever selling cake (Diamond Twilight). It is the fourth is our series of aged Fuding White Shou Mei and it brings the heat with a powerful aromatic profile and a cheeky little body sensation.
The decade of ageing has developed such a buffet of delicious aromatics.
Picture the scene - it is late summer and you are picnicking in a forest on a hot day. Under the cool shade of the trees, there is the smell of dry leaves, hot rocks, aromatic woods and fresh reams of paper reminiscent of a bookshop,
In front of you is a spread of sweet delights - dried dates, plum cake, sugared almonds, sticky toffee pudding, baklava, and frangipane-filled puff pastry drizzled with apricot jam.
To drink, you have sweet and strong Turkish black tea with mint and kombucha spiked with pomegranate syrup. There is some plum wine and a bottle of amber rum for later as the sun, burning a purple orange, dips closer to the horizon.
Blazing Heavens is transportive - it brings me to that scene, not just in terms of taste but also in its tea drunkenness. Time becomes lazy and carefree, allowing the moment to breathe slower and more deeply. The world feels more vivid, its essence more coloured and I feel awakened and cheeky - a distant vacation from the day to day.
The wrapper artwork by Celine encapsulated this feeling perfectly - that lone man, a seeker of colour and light, finding moments of awe to bathe in.
