Sun Link Sea / Shanlinxi Goat Mountain Oolong (杉林溪羊仔灣)

Sun Link Sea (Shanlinxi) Goat Mountain Oolong (杉林溪羊仔灣) is a very rare oolong from high mountain plantation on Goat Mountain, Sun Link Sea (Shanlinxi), Nantou County.

Goat Mountain (or Goat District) belong to Sun Link Sea high mountain forests area with average temperature 20°C during the whole year. This temperature is perfect for oolongs and gives to the tea sweet flavor. This tea is growing on the altitude 1750 m above sea level.

Leaves: are green, compact, rolled into small balls, which are straighten during brewing

Taste

Tea liquor is golden yellow, clean and bright. Taste is sweet, floral, honey and very fresh in the aroma.

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.