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The leaves of this unique tea come from a garden located among the mountains and forests in Fujian province. Both Chinese and Taiwanese varieties of tea bushes grow there, where abundant rains and responsible human care have created excellent growing conditions. The honey flavor of this tea is caused by the plant's reaction to the bites of an insect pest - Jacobiasca Formosana.

Bag (Loose Leaf Tea)
250g net
324.39 zł

1.30 zł/g

Origin
China
Tea Type
Black
Packaging
Bag (Loose Leaf Tea)
Collection
Organic Piag Tea collection
Ingredients

black tea leaves

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Black Honey Tea – one of the most unique and captivating teas

The leaves of this extraordinary tea come from a garden nestled among the misty mountains and lush forests of Fujian Province. Here, both Chinese and Taiwanese tea cultivars thrive, nourished by abundant rainfall and carefully tended by skilled hands. The tea’s signature honey-like sweetness is nature’s own gift, created when the leaves respond to the gentle bites of the Jacobiasca Formosana insect.

A black tea kissed by rays of golden honeyed sunshine.

 

Black Honey Tea

Composition: 100% black tea leaves

Flavor: Black Honey brews into a deep, rich brown infusion with a delicate honey aroma and a naturally sweet, smooth taste.

Health: Like all fine black teas, Black Honey is packed with antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals and support long-term well-being. With its natural theine content, it energizes gently while enhancing focus and clarity.

Packaging: Piag Tea’s Black Honey comes in an elegant tin designed by illustrator and designer Katarzyna Korzeniowska. Each tin is hand-labeled and carefully packed – because everything we create is made with love.

Black Honey

The moment you hold a tin of Black Honey in your hands, you instantly know this is no ordinary tea. It demands respect, admiration – and a touch of reverence. Then you read about the secret behind its honeyed taste (yes, the story of the magical little leafhopper, just below in the connoisseurs’ section) – and suddenly you’re enchanted, swept away in wonder.

And yet, you haven’t even taken a single sip of this extraordinary brew! The true finale comes with the ceremony of drinking it. That first taste will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Prepare yourself – because you may well become a willing captive of its flavor. But don’t worry, this is one addiction worth embracing.

After all – who doesn’t love a little honey?

 

For the curious connoisseurs

The Shanfu Farm is an organic tea plantation located in the Fujian Province of China. Founded in 1995 by Mr. Tseng Chin Tong, a Taiwanese entrepreneur and owner of the Taiwan Fushan Joint Tea Factory, the farm spans more than 100 hectares – with 80 hectares devoted to tea cultivation, and the rest preserved as forests and meadows. Nestled 380–500 meters above sea level, and surrounded by mountains and woodland, the plantation enjoys an ideal climate and natural protection from pollution and noise.

Among Shanfu’s treasures, Black Honey Tea stands out as one of the rarest and most intriguing. Its signature honey flavor is the result of a fascinating natural process: the tea leaves are gently bitten by the tiny Jacobiasca Formosana leafhopper. This insect, related to the grasshopper, nibbles at young stems and tender leaf buds. Its saliva interacts with the plant’s juices, creating the tea’s unmistakable honeyed aroma and sweetness. Harvested in the summer months, when the leafhoppers are most active, the leaves are carefully hand-picked and then undergo meticulous fermentation, drying, and roasting – all to create the unforgettable Black Honey Tea.

 

If you love stories about tea…

You already know how passionately we promote tea – with heart and dedication. And every time someone, even in passing, mentions this most noble of drinks, our hearts simply light up with joy. Our dear friend, writer from Wągrowiec – Zora Siatczanka (or, if you prefer, Roksana Strzyżyńska) – mentioned tea no fewer than sixteen times in her novel Onirogen. Isn’t that just wonderful?

And since we’re on the subject of honey (HONEY), here’s a fitting little excerpt for you! See for yourself that Zora is quite the wild herb – she drinks oceans of tea, chats with spiders and martens, but above all, she loves Agnieszka Osiecka.

 

*“I open the cupboard with mugs and pull out a thermos. I need to take lemon balm tea to work – I simply can’t manage without it.

‘Hello, Felek!’ – I greet the spider who lives in our mug cupboard.

I let him stay there on one condition: no girlfriends. He agreed. I named him after my father, who used to say, ‘Happy is the home where spiders live.’ And so, Felek dwells among the mugs, bringing us good luck. We also have another tenant we’ve never seen, though we hear her a few times each year. She’s Marta the marten. Her name comes from Spanish, since la marta means marten. They don’t stay in one place their whole lives; they move from home to home. Marta shows up every January and sometimes returns in the summer. She lives above our bedroom. When she arrives, she greets us with her scratching – and we scratch back in our human way to say hello.

I finish my nettle tea, which I always drink on an empty stomach. I hug a mug in my hands, the one that says, ‘Don’t talk to me like I’m your wife,’ and hum under my breath, dancing a little morning waltz.

-‘Words like fake honey, ersatz, damn it, not life. It was supposed to be paradise, a miracle, and a quarter bottle to wash it down. But it’s all not this, not that, not it – and if it wasn’t this, then what on earth were we after?’”*

Time: 3 min.

Temp. 100C

12g/l

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