Metropolitan Tea Company - Pinhead Gunpowder Green Tea

Name: Metropolitan Tea Company - Pinhead Gunpowder Green Tea
Brand: The Kitchen Pantry
Price: 8.99 CAD
Availability: InStock

Regular price $8.99

Metropolitan Tea Company - Pinhead Gunpowder Green Tea. A green tea with surprising body and captivating almost nutty green tea taste.

Luxury Ingredients: Green tea

Small Batch Blended and Packed in: Canada

Tea(s) From: China

Region(s): Zhejiang Province

Antioxidant Level: Very High

Caffeine Content: Low

Metropolitan Tea Company - Pinhead Gunpowder Green Tea

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Tips for Brewing the Perfect Cup

- 1 heaping teaspoon loose tea or 1 tea bag

- 1 cup 7-9oz. (200-250ml.) heated water

- 160-185°F (70-85ºC) water temp.

- 1-3 minute steeping time

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About this Tea:

Pinhead Gunpowder Pingshui tea comes from the province of Zhejiang across Hangzhou Bay from Shanghai. It was in Hangzhou that Mao Tse Tung (China's first leader on modern times) first met with Richard Nixon (President of the United States). This 1973 meeting, which included gunpowder tea, was the beginning of normalized relations between China and the United States.

The leaves for Pinhead Gunpowder are only plucked during April and May when the quality of the green leaf is at it's highest. The leaves are steamed and tightly rolled in a time-honored process. When preparing this tea, part of the ritual is to take two pinches of Pinhead Gunpowder and drop them into a porcelain cup so you hear the jingle and tinkle of the leaves hitting the sides. Boiling water causes them to open up like flowers and sink slowly to the bottom in graceful patterns, which add a dimension of visual pleasure to tea drinking. This gunpowder produces a reasonably strong dark-green brew with a memorable fragrance, a slightly bitter but not unpleasant flavor and a long lasting finish. Gunpowder is more dense than other teas so if you are making a teapot full you only require one or two teaspoons for a teapot.

Metropolitan Tea Company - Pinhead Gunpowder Green Tea

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