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Taiwanese Oriental Beauty Summer 2022
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Grammage: 35g
Harvest: Summer 2022
Origin: Longtan, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Oriental Beauty 東方美人 is well known as ‘the original green leafhopper bitten tea’. Legend has it that the farmer had promised the harvest to a client, and found his tea ravaged by green leaf hopper. He went against his conscience and processed the tea. The client came was delighted, and returned for more!
The well loved perfumy aroma is caused by chemical response of the leaves to the bites - to us, that's a happy side effect! Considered a darkly oxidized non-roasted oolong, it is often mistaken for a black tea. This micro batch is harvested from Long Tan distract of Taoyuan City from 青心大冇 Qing Xin Da Pan cultivar, and includes tips as well as a mixed coarseness of leaves. To distinguish if a tea is Oriental Beauty or not, look out for leaves of different colours and sizes, as leaves from different levels from the top bud and two leaves, to the lower more mature leaves are usually plucked and processed together. This results in different shades from brown/green from the differential oxidation of different sizes of leaves. But this of course is also the reason for the complex cup with layered flavours!
A superbly smooth and fragrant cup! To us, it is a perfect representation of the heady fragrance of a summer romance!
Grammage: 35g
Harvest: Summer 2022
Origin: Longtan, Taoyuan, Taiwan
The well loved perfumy aroma is caused by chemical response of the leaves to the bites - to us, that's a happy side effect! Considered a darkly oxidized non-roasted oolong, it is often mistaken for a black tea. This micro batch is harvested from Long Tan distract of Taoyuan City from 青心大冇 Qing Xin Da Pan cultivar, and includes tips as well as a mixed coarseness of leaves. To distinguish if a tea is Oriental Beauty or not, look out for leaves of different colours and sizes, as leaves from different levels from the top bud and two leaves, to the lower more mature leaves are usually plucked and processed together. This results in different shades from brown/green from the differential oxidation of different sizes of leaves. But this of course is also the reason for the complex cup with layered flavours!
A superbly smooth and fragrant cup! To us, it is a perfect representation of the heady fragrance of a summer romance!
Grammage: 35g
Harvest: Summer 2022
Origin: Longtan, Taoyuan, Taiwan