CAYKUR - Turkish Black Tea 500G - Filiz Luks

Turkish tea, known as “çay“, pronounced Chai, is a type of tea made from loose black tea leaves, in a stacked kettle apparatus called “çaydanlık“. This popular tea is brewed slowly and often diluted to taste with hot water as the long and slow brewing process makes the tea very strong. It is a pure, unadulterated Turkish black tea. The name ('filiz' - sprout) comes from the pure sprout leaves that have been used to make that tea. Çaykur’s Filiz Tea has an intense amount of tea sprouts in its stock. The high-end quality of blend can be tasted in every one of the sweet sips you take. Çaykur Filiz is the choice of many black tea lovers for its fine and natural leaves which were collected as they shoot forth in the season. This typical Turkish tea has a very delicate floral aroma and is low in tannins. Making it pleasant to taste with or without sweetening and not so bitter. This low tannin count makes Turkish tea perfect for extended steeping, letting the tea infuse gradually. Caykur Tea is the leading tea producer of Turkey and is state owned. With plantations in the northeastern city of Rize by the Black Sea coast, Caykur tea produces more than half of all Turkish tea consumed in Turkey, which is the highest per capita in the world! The cultivation process is stringent and heavily controlled as Turkish law has a mandate on the production licensing and importing of tea produce. Caykur tea meets all of the criteria and has state of the art facilities with organic production certification awarded by Swiss authorities in 2013.