The Saying About a Thousand Cups
赤甘 — 赤 for red, 甘 for sweet — describes exactly what's in the cup: a bright orange-red liquor with a honeyed sweetness, no smoke in it at all. There's an old saying about it among red tea drinkers: 红茶不识小赤甘，喝遍千杯也枉然 — drink a thousand cups of red tea, and it's still pointless if you've never had Xiao Chi Gan.
This is the same early-spring leaf as the loose-leaf version sold elsewhere in the catalog — picked from gardens above 1,000 meters at Tongmuguan, the original Jiang family material, just packed into the same whole-leaf corn-fiber bags as the rest of this format line. The principle holds here the same as everywhere else: convenient is fine, but it still has to be the real tea, not what's left over after the real tea was sorted out.