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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, glowing red lanterns illuminate the streets. Inspired by this millennia-old cultural tradition,the 2014 TWG Tea Red Lantern Tea Mooncake Gift Box features eight traditional and chilled tea-infused mooncakes, reinterpreting the aesthetic that blends tradition with modernity to delight the palates of today’s discerning consumers.This year, the highlight of the collection is the new TWG Tea Haute Couture premium custom-made series—Red Lantern Tea, which combines aromatic black and white teas into a radiant autumn celebration. It begins with an irresistible wave of jasmine floral notes that captivate your taste buds, followed by a symphony of fruits and sweet spices that seals in the joy of family reunions.

TWG Tea is not only passionate about blending refined tea treats with innovative concepts but also pursues ultimate taste and unparalleled quality details.All TWG Tea mooncakes are meticulously handmade, perfectly integrating fine teas within. As night falls, the new TWG Tea Red Lantern Tea mooncakes resemble thousands of bright red lanterns adorning tree-lined paths in the greenery. This mooncake blend perfectly marries the prestigious TWG Tea Red Lantern Tea with a golden baked pastry crust filled with almonds, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, and a smooth, delicate lotus seed paste filling, competing beautifully with the enchanting silver of the night sky.

The TWG Tea Emperor Imperial Harmony Mooncake is a rich and enduring French-style pastry, combining the luscious and thick red bean paste with the refined and elegant Nara matcha from Japan’s most prestigious tea gardens, reflecting the yin-yang harmony of the Taiji symbol in the I Ching.Along with the new series, four chilled tea mooncakes are introduced: the TWG Tea Aurora Dawn Chilled Mooncake, featuring a salted caramel mousse with Napoleon Adventure Tea filling, complemented by white chocolate filled with sweet pear compote, like a perfect creation kissed by the sun to herald the arrival of Mid-Autumn splendor; the TWG Tea Serenity Royal Blue Chilled Mooncake, adorned with paradise-blue ice skin, highlighting the aroma of Bourbon vanilla tea combined with a coconut kaya mousse filling, white chocolate wrapped strawberries, and artfully enhanced with crispy coconut chips, as if leading you through the tranquil tides of a rich and alluring tropical oasis.

In 2014, all TWG Tea Red Lantern Tea Mooncake Gift Boxes came in dazzling, exquisitely crafted yellow packaging, adding elegance to the deep red lanterns. The two-pack of tea mooncakes paired with the TWG Tea Haute Couture premium custom-made series – Red Lantern Tea is priced at NT$1,680, the four-pack of tea mooncake gift box is priced at NT$1,440; additionally, there is a one-pack tea mooncake gift box priced at NT$390.

 

 

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