Chine Extra®

The origins of Chine Extra tea

In 1937, during the Paris World Fair, Compagnie Coloniale created Chine Extra. A delicious mix of natural black teas from China to honor the excellence of Chinese know-how. 

The combination of 4 great tea for a perfect blind of Chinese teas : 

Lapsang Souchong tea

Lapsang Souchong comes from the Fujian region in southwest China. Its particularity is that it reveals a delicate smoky taste. Its ancestral and artisanal process makes it so special: the black tea leaves follow a relatively long period of oxidation before being smoked and dried, first on wood, then rolled and oxidized, and finally dried again in bamboo baskets placed over a fire. 

Generally Lapsang Souchong is smoked on spruce wood. 

At Compagnie Coloniale we have chosen a tea smoked with pine roots to avoid distorting the natural taste of black tea leaves. When tasted, the first sip reveals an ashy note, then gradually reveals a generous woody flavor. 

Lapsang Souchong tea is not processed, so it contains a high antioxidant content and offers many benefits!

Panyong tea

Panyong is a black tea that is not well known in Europe. The one we have selected comes from the province of Zhejiang which borders the China Sea. This province offers the finest teas in terms of quality. It has beautiful needle-like leaves which are harvested only in April. The infusion of Panyong reveals an orange color, its notes are powerful. In the mouth, it offers a woody, rather intense flavor that generally pleases coffee lovers, moreover as rich in theine it is the ideal tea for tonic mornings.