Core Application Tea / Black Tea

Milk-Compatible Black Tea for repeatable service.

We match Keemun or Yunnan black tea directions to your application: milk tea, breakfast blends, hotel service, tea bags, or specialty retail. The sample conversation focuses on strength, liquor color, aroma, milk performance, and serving cost.

Chinese black tea leaf handling before packingDesigned for

Importers, private-label tea brands, hotels, cafes, breakfast-tea programs, and hospitality teams that need a reliable black-tea base.

Wholesale Profile

A familiar cup with a clear Chinese origin direction.

Black tea gives your menu or range an approachable benchmark while still offering distinct Keemun and Yunnan aroma, body, and origin stories.

Tasting

Keemun options lean floral, cocoa, and winey. Yunnan options lean malt, honey, dried fruit, and fuller body.

Commercial Use

Retail pouch, hotel tea service, breakfast-style blends, cafe hot tea, loose-leaf specialty ranges, and private label.

Documentation

Current specification, grade, lot, harvest or origin information, available report scope, and shipment documents confirmed for the selected option.

Tea TypesKeemun, Yunnan Dianhong, broken-leaf service grades
MOQ5 kg wholesale, 200 g sample evaluation
PackagingBulk bag, pouch, tin, sachet, or your label
Best MarketsEU, US, hotels, cafes, private label, retail

Choose your black-tea direction

  • Keemun floral and cocoa notes or Yunnan malt and fuller body.
  • Whole leaf, broken leaf, or service grade.
  • Plain drinking, milk compatibility, or breakfast-blend use.
  • Retail pouch, hotel sachet, bulk foodservice, or your label.

Start your product brief

Choose Milk-Compatible Black Tea when you need a familiar product for Western retail, hotels, cafés, or private-label programs.

Matched to Your Market

A black tea profile built around the way you serve it.

Keemun, Yunnan, whole-leaf retail grades, service grades, and breakfast-style uses each create a different cup. We focus the product direction on your customer, recipe, and channel rather than offering one generic black tea.

Profile selection

Choose a more floral, cocoa-led Keemun direction or a malty, honeyed, fuller-bodied Yunnan direction. We connect the available profile to your target menu, shelf, or hospitality program.

Service and retail performance

For hotels and cafés, the conversation can focus on consistency, color, strength, and milk compatibility. For specialty retail, it can emphasize aroma, whole-leaf appearance, and origin.

Bulk and private-label options

Share your pack size, intended use, expected volume, target positioning, loose-leaf or sachet format, destination, and label needs so we can prepare relevant options.

Built for Your Service Format

Choose the body and aroma your menu needs.

Your final direction depends on brew strength, aroma style, milk compatibility, and whether you sell loose leaf, bags, hospitality service, or gift sets. We shape the sample conversation around that real use.

Plain and milk performance

We can review the tea both plain and with milk or sweetener when that reflects your market. This helps identify a cup with enough body for breakfast service or café menus without unnecessary harshness.

Format for your channel

For grocery and hospitality, we focus on repeatable cup color, suitable cut-size direction, and practical packing. For specialty retail, we can emphasize aroma, origin, and a clearer customer-facing tea story.

FAQ

Practical answers for your Black Tea project.

Tell us how the tea will be prepared and sold; we will focus the product and packaging options around that use.

Why add Milk-Compatible Black Tea to my range?

It offers a familiar, versatile cup for breakfast service, milk tea, hotels, cafes, tea bags, and approachable retail programs.

Can you help me choose between Keemun and Yunnan?

Yes. Keemun often suits floral, cocoa, and elegant profiles, while Yunnan often suits malty, honeyed, and fuller-bodied cups. We focus the options around your recipe, service style, and target market.

Can it work in hotels and cafes?

Yes. The sample conversation can cover liquor color, milk compatibility, strength, bitterness, cut-size direction, and consistency for your intended service format.

What product information can you provide?

We confirm the current specification, grade direction, lot or harvest information, available report scope, packaging options, and destination-specific document requirements.

Specifications & Commercial Basics

Hard numbers you can plan with.

Reference ranges for typical Chinese black tea. Exact specification, MOQ, price and documents are fixed when you select a candidate and we issue the written project scope.

Typical specification ranges

Reference values — confirmed per selected lot
Tea typesKeemun, Yunnan Dianhong, service / broken-leaf grades
FormWhole leaf, broken leaf, or service-cut grades
Moisture≤ 7% (reference)
Caffeine≈ 3–5% (reference)
Profile directionsFloral / cocoa (Keemun) · malty / honeyed (Yunnan)

Commercial basics (reference)

Indicative only — confirmed in writing before payment
MOQFrom ≈ 5 kg wholesale; 200 g sample evaluation
Reference price≈ US$8–20/kg (FOB, grade-dependent, reference)
Available documentsSpec sheet, COA, lot record; ISO 9001 (Hubei Deshangdian), ISO 22000, HACCP, EU/US Organic per lot — certificate numbers provided to verified buyers
Lead timeSample ≈ 5–7 days; production ≈ 15–25 days (reference)
PackagingBulk bag, pouch, tin, sachet, or your label

From Interest to Order

A five-step black-tea decision path.

The sample is selected and tested around the actual brew method, milk ratio, service format and target cup.

01

Share the service

Define breakfast, milk tea, hotel, tea bag, loose leaf or private label.

02

Choose a direction

We focus Keemun, Yunnan or service-grade candidates around the brief.

03

Test it both ways

Evaluate strength, liquor colour, aroma, bitterness and milk balance.

04

Confirm the pilot

Approve grade, cut size, pack, available documents, price and quantity.

05

Place the order

Packing and shipment follow the confirmed commercial terms.

Knowledge & Related Products

Complete a service-ready tea menu.

Evidence Before Scale

Approve the selected sample and its written product facts.

Website imagery helps explain the product direction. Your commercial decision is based on the selected candidate, application review, available documents, packaging scope, price and timing.

Request the buyer approval pack

Ask us to identify the candidate, sample record, test points, available product information, packaging confirmation and written commercial scope relevant to this product.

Product Message

Ask about Milk-Compatible Black Tea.

Share the brew recipe, milk type, cup size, target strength and service format.

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