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Taylors Imperial Gun Powder 4.4 of loose tea | 
 enlarge | Brand: Taylors of Harrogate
Category: Grocery
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Rating:  1 reviews
Ingredients: Green Tea
Media: Misc.
UPC: 615357119963
EAN: 0615357119963
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| Features:
| • | Taylors Imperial Gun Powder 4.4 of loose tea | | • | From either China or Indonesia | | • | Imported Enlgish Tea from Taylors of Harrogate | | • | Light, refreshing taste and a sweet aroma | | • | Freshly plucked tea leaves are hand rolled in steel pans over an open fire. |
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Product Description
Taylors of Harrogate is one of the few remaining family tea and coffee merchants in England. Founded in 1886. Taylors of Harrogate Imperial Gun Powder 4.4 of loose tea.This green tea gets its name from its distinctive leaf style, which is said to resemble gunpowder shot. The tea is steamed, rolled by hand and dried in large open pans over a fire. When hot water is added to the tea it unfurls to reveal whole leaves floating in a clear green liquor, with a fresh, delicate flavour.Use a warmed teapot and add one teaspoon of tea per person and an extra one for the pot. Add water just under the boil and infuse for 2-3 minutes. Serve on its own. You can top the teapot up with more hot water as you enjoy the tea.
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| Customer Reviews:
The "Green Pearl" of Tea. June 8, 2008
Themis-Athena (from somewhere between California and Germany)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gunpowder tea is green tea, most of which comes from a city named Pingshui in the Eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, south of the Yangtse River Delta, where it has been cultivated for centuries and is known as the "green pearl" of tea. Pingshui tea market records date as far back as the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907). The area's gunpowder tea was an important tribute traditionally given to the Chinese emperors; and with the growing trade volume between China and the West it also acquired an increasing number of lovers in Europe. Particularly during the second half of the 19th century, when gunpowder tea export reached its peak, its price on the London market was second only to then-popular Wu Yi Oolong (also from China). Even today, Zhejiang Province still proudly calls itself "home of silk and tea" for its two primary natural products.
The name "gunpowder" derives from the tea's elaborate method of processing, which traditionally lasts several hours and during which the tea leaves are withered, steamed or stir-fried and individually rolled into small pellets. Early foreign traders mistook these pellets for gunpowder or gunshot.
Gunpowder tea has a delicate aroma with a slightly smokey note. It should *always* be enjoyed without milk or cream.
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