Hunter Bay Coffee

Hunter Bay’s Black Tea brews a bracing, medium-bodied cup with a silken mouth-feel and a rich floral flavor with smoke and caramel overtones.

Black Tea is a true tea, as opposed to herbal and rooibus teas, which are more accurately classified as “tisanes”. True tea comes from the Camellia Sinensis plant which is cultivated throughout India, Indonesia, and Asia. Hunter Bay Black Tea is a rolled-leaf tea from the Dimbulla district of Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. Interestingly, until the late 19th Century, coffee was the chief agricultural product of Ceylon. In the 1870s a deadly fungus devastated the coffee crop, and by 1880 Ceylon’s fields of coffee were uprooted and replanted with Camellia Sinensis. The fine tea produced by these plants has been a staple of the traditional English Tearoom ever since.

Served with a touch of cream and sugar, as they do in England, Black Tea has a smooth body and a lightly floral and citrus flavor. For a more bracing cup, serve it black, or with a twist of lemon, and enjoy the deeper tea flavors of smoke and caramel.

Tasting Notes:
Aroma – Floral, citrus, light smoke.
Astringency – Medium, softens with milk or cream.
Flavor – Floral and brisk, with subtle notes of light smoke, citrus and caramel.
Body – Medium, rich, silken mouth feel.
Aftertaste – Crisp and floral.
Balance – Well-balanced flavor and body, with crisp, clean tannins.