Tian Jian Coins

This Tian Jian has cherry vanilla cola upfront and pipe tobacco sweetness in the back. 

Tian jian is a high grade production of Anhua heicha, also known as dark tea, a post fermented tea from Hunan province in China, that contains younger leaves and buds. 

After plucking, Tian Jian is fried to kill the enzymes in the tea leaves that oxidize. The tea is then rolled to release moisture from the tea leaves. The leaves are piled for 12-24 hours (as opposed to shu puerh which is wet piled for 25-90 days). The texture of the tea leaves changes and micro-organisms grow in the piling. 

After piling, the tea leaves are rolled once again. The tea will be baked dry by heat via burning of pine wood in a stove, which adds a pine smoke flavor or electric stove which doesn't.