Tea Mountain – Angel’s Kiss
What is an Angel’s Kiss? Actually, it could be one of a number of things. It’s a type of birthmark more properly known as Midline nevus flammeus. It’s also a cocktail consisting of brandy, white cacao cream and gin. And it’s also a tea blend which is why I brought it up in the first place.
I had never heard of Angel’s Kiss tea before I tried this one from Tea Mountain, but it appears to be an established tea blend that is sold by multiple teamongers. Tea Mountain’s Angel’s Kiss tea ingredients are Chinese green Sencha, Dragonwell green tea, Pai Mu Tan white tea, papaya, pineapple, rose petals, strawberries and natural flavourings. This appears to be the standard recipe used across all Angel’s Kiss tea sellers, with only the occasional minor tweak, such as substituting pineapple for passionfruit.
Interestingly, what remains consistent across all the Angel’s Kiss teas I found is the three teas at the base of it – Sencha, Dragonwell and Pai Mu Tan. And they’re a bloody striking set of teas.
Chinese Dragonwell tea – also known as Longjing or Lung Ching – is grown exclusively in Longjing Village in Hangzhou. It is named after a well which was magically created by a dragon in order to help out some humans who had a bit of a flood problem. (I was going to shoehorn a ‘legend has it’ or somesuch in that previous sentence, but, nah, I like the implication that magical dragons are a verifiable true fact in this tea’s history.)
Pai Mu Tan is a white tea also known as White Peony. It’s grown in China’s Fujian province and is known for its rich, mellow taste. Sencha is the workhorse of the green tea world. It’s best known as a Japanese tea variant but is all produced in China using Japanese tea-processing techniques.
The teas in Tea Mountain’s Angel’s Kiss are absolutely beautiful and flavourful enough to hold their own against the other ingredients. You’d think that the addition of papaya chunks and rose petals and the like would overpower the tea base, but that certainly isn’t the case here. This doesn’t taste like a fruity tisane. It’s a wonderful blend of green and white tea with just enough frills to give it some extra pizazz.
Tea Mountain’s Angel’s Kiss tea is a delightfully fresh, crisp tea that is probably fit for an angel. Or a benevolent dragon.
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