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Iced Sunset Oolong Loose Leaf Oolong Tea

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48p per cup

Style

This loose leaf oolong was created specifically for cold infusion (also known as cold brew tea). It's the same Sunset Oolong that you love for its silky smooth yet rich complexity, but fine cut for cold water extraction.

Tasting Notes

Smooth, complex with a rich nuttiness, soft fruit and malty, biscuity notes of vintage champagne.

Cost Per Cup

48p per cup based on 10g of tea per 1000ml of water, 150ml servings and 1 infusion.

Origin

Taitung, Taiwan

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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.

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any tea or teaware you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances we will give you a full refund of the item’s cost excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us. Customers in the European Union have a statutory cooling-off period of fourteen days that is not affected by this guarantee, but any tea pouches much remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within two months of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.