Tea: Superb Black Tea
A Black Tea from The Excellent Tea Company - 
Fair Trade
This tea has been retired/discontinued.
| Brand: | The Excellent Tea Company |
| Style: | Black Tea |
| Region: | Rwanda |
| Caffeine: | Caffeinated |
| Loose? | Teabag |
| # Ratings: | 5 View All |
Reviewer: Alex Zorach
✓ 1448 teas reviewed
✓ 496 of Black Tea
✓ 949 of Pure Tea (Camellia sinensis)
✓ 1 of The Excellent Tea Company
✓ 4 from Rwanda
Review of Superb Black Tea
October 10th, 2012
| Aroma | Flavor | Value | Total |
| 5 of 10 | 3 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 57 of 100 |
| Fair | Fair | Good Value |
The only tea I've ever tried from Rwanda: a humble teabag with finely-broken tea fannings.
Exceptionally strong and robust: this makes some Assam tea look weak! Good with milk and one of the few teas that I actually preferred this way. Brews a very dark blackish-brown cup, opaque, almost like black coffee. Yet less edgy than an Assam...smoother, and a bit muted.
The cup has a relatively flat aroma, but upon drinking, some interesting fruity tones come out. I found this tea tasted better once it had cooled and was lukewarm.
This tea was good for such a finely-broken, low grade in a paper tea bag, but it's still not on par with the higher-grade orthodox teas that I've seen come out of some African countries, especially Kenya. I would really love to see what this estate and this region could produce if they produced whole-leaf orthodox teas which I could brew up as loose-leaf.
Quite inexpensive too, given the fair trade certification and the fact that this is from such an unusual region!
