Li Shan High Mountain Organic Oolong (梨山高山有機烏龍茶)
- Region: Li Shan (Li Mountain / Pear Mountain) Area
- Harvest: 2024
- Availability: In Stock
- $57.00
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Li Shan area is the highest mountains in Taiwan. Li Mountain has altitude more than 2000 meter above sea level. Li Shan tea trees are grown in this cold and humid environment, making the tea leaf soft and with amazing fruit fragrance and taste.
This unique feature cannot be found on the teas grown in low altitude areas.
Leaves: are green, compact, rolled into small balls, which are straighten during brewing.
Taste
Tea liquor is golden yellow, clean and bright. Tea has extremely fruit fragrance and taste with apple and pear notes, strong sweetness in the throat; brisk and smooth aftertaste with long-lasting sweet scent in the mouth.
Brewing
You can use any kind of tea pot, but clay tea pot suits much better.
Warm up the tea pot with the boiling water, put 2-3 grams of tea, and pour small amount of the boiling water into the tea and pour out, then pour 225-250 ml of boiling water and cover tea pot for three minutes before serving.
Boiling temperature – 85-95°C (185-203°F). You can use this amount of tea 3 to 4 times.
The tea leaves come unrolled for full flavor.
Additional information
This is one of the traditional ways of brewing. Depending on individual gustatory preferences you can vary brewing time from 35s to 5 minutes.
You can also use Chinese traditional way of brewing - spilling, using Gaiwan and brew for 3-5 second each time.
Please note, that it is natural tea with high content of active elements, including caffeine, and minerals and some unusual feelings could appear. In that case we recommend decrease quantity of dry leaves and brewing time.
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