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Silver Medal Winner of the 2014 International Tea Tasting Competition, Matsumoto-san smokes his black tea using the wood from Japanese whisky barrels. No flavorings or additives used.
The smokiness of the tea is light, not overwhelming like a lapsang, and has been described by reviewers with notes of "oak", "smoked salmon", "plum".
The wood comes from the award winning Ichiro Distillery in Chichibu, Tokyo, Japan.
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This tea is very different from Chinese smoked teas. First, leaves are visually very different. They are broken, live and fresh, but on a bit dark greenish side with few reddish-brown stalks. Scent is very intense and deep. This tea looks very delicate and sophisticated. Placed in a warm teapot, they are extremely intense, deep, sweet, pure, smokey and alive. It does have a scent of smoked salmon, but finely smoked.
Color is beautiful, live and almost like you put a drop of amber and red paint into a cup. Very strong and live. Even though the scent of dry leaves is very strong, tea itself has a more subtle, sophisticated scent and flavor. It's very full, but smokiness is only veiling the whole flavor, not overtaking it. It's quite light and very refreshing, without any traces of bitterness.
My full review: ...view morewww.tea-chronicles.com/whiskey-barrel-wood-smoked-black-tea-yunomi-life/ view less
The moment you open the package you get a whiff of smokiness, always a nice sign. The tea steeps a deeper amber colour from the small black leaves.
The tea really hits you with aromas of oak and maltiness with a bit of smokey whisky in the background. Super pleasant.
Drinking it, it's a rather light bodied black tea, with no astringency to it at all. Flavourwise it's very malt forward with a bit of caramel that fades off into whisky. A smokey, oaky (rhyme totally not intended, but I'll take it) finish comes in and lingers around as you exhale.
Restrained is the best word for this tea. You're not hit in the face with smoke, but you KNOW it's a smoked tea. I may not have been able to pick out whisky barrel as the smoke flavour, b...view moreut there's definitely an oaky quality to it, although maybe that's because I'm expecting it. It resteeps alright, but really fade off after a 3 or 4 steeps view less
An exceptionally unique tea! Japan's answer to Lapsang Souchong, but with Japan's characteristic oceanic aroma on the dry leaf (smells subtely like smoked salmon - in the best way!!) The brew tastes smooth, smokey & malty, with an underlying sweetness. 100% recommend. We love it with brunch.
A: Matsumoto-san builds a large box (to handle several dozen kilograms at once) and places the tea inside, the wood is burned slowly and smoke fed into the box to smoke it. More specific details are confidential (how long it's smoked etc.).
