DailyTX wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 3:23 pm
Hopefully this is not too off topic. Balthazar What do you think about ZhongCha fuzhuan? Would this be an good entry to Heizhuans?
It wouldn't actually be an entry to heizhuans at all, since heizhuan and fuzhuan are two different types of tea. (It can be confusing, since "heizhuan" sounds like it might encompass all brick teas that are heichas.) But Zhongcha offers heizhuans as well, e.g.
this
The biggest difference is of course that fuzhuans contain jinhua/"golden flowers" by design/intention, whereas heizhuans only occasionally do so (and by accident, usually related to not being heavily enough compressed).
But to answer about Zhongcha/COFCO's Anhua heichas in general, they are a decent introductions to most genres imo. Their profile is definitely a bit heavier on the fermentation than some others, but worth sampling and a useful reference point.