BANGtea GABA Oolong Bar

To celebrate the new year, Sam Tilney of BANGtea and I developed this limited edition "tea chocolate bar" using on of her most popular teas, GABA oolong, sourced from Taiwan.  

About the tea: The Spring 2024 GABA oolong "offers a rich, fruity broth, evoking the indulgent taste of a luscious fruit pie with a lingering, sweet aftertaste."  It has been certified as meeting the minimum threshold of GABA content of 150mg/100g leaves. The GABA content for the 2024 harvest has achieved a concentration of 193mg/100g leaves. The leaves have undergone an extended 3-day anaerobic fermentation process and are finished with a 4-hour roast.

About the bar: after tasting several oolongs from BANGtea's wonderful collection, I felt the GABA tea was unlike any I had ever tasted. I tried several formulations over the fall, and we decided on this one. It is 11% tea leaves by weight, blended with cocoa butter, chocolate, and sugar, and packaged in a limited edition red envelope.

Tasting Notes: persimmon, biscotti, raisin

ingredients: dark chocolate, cocoa butter, tea, sugar, soy lecithin

net wt: 50 g (1.76 oz)