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Superfine Taiwan Qing Xiang Dong Ding Oolong Tea

Sweet, floral and fruity

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Superfine Taiwan Qing Xiang Dong Ding Oolong Tea

Sweet, floral and fruity

Rating:
91% of 100
Summary
Origin:

Dongding, Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan

Season:

Spring tea

Harvest Date:

April 28, 2024

Dry Leaf: 

Tightly rolled semi-ball shape, glossy and dark green

Aroma: 

Fresh and high aroma with floral and fruity aroma

Liquor: 

Bright and clear yellowish-green color

Taste: 

Sweet and mellow taste with floral fragrance similar with osmanthus;

has strong sweet aftertaste.

Tea Bush:

C.sinensis cv.Qingxin (Chin Shin Oolong)

Tea Garden:

Dalun Shan Tea Garden

Caffeine:

Moderate caffeine (less than 20% of a cup of coffee)

Storage:

Store in airtight, opaque packaging; keep refrigerated

Shelf Life:

24 Months

Angel's Comment:

A refreshing Taiwan High mountain tea with classic floral fragrance and taste that is good for a beginning of the day.

In Taiwan Oolong Tea, Dong Ding Oolong Tea is an excellent kind highly praised by tea lovers all over the world. Dong Ding Oolong Tea is named after its production place, Dongding Mountain, Nantou. This Dong Ding Qing Xiang Oolong Tea is made of the tea leaves from Qing Xin Oolong tea tree. This tea has thick and soft leaf, refreshing tea liquid, with osmanthus scent. Meanwhile it has strong sweet aftertaste, which makes High Mountain tea more excellent.

Recommend Brewing Method

Cup Method

Chinese Gongfu Method

Teacup: 12oz / 355ml Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
212℉ / 100℃ 212℉ / 100℃
3 Teaspoons / 5g Tea 7g Tea
Brewing time: 3 - 5 mins 7 steeps: rinse, 30s, 30s, 35s, 45s, 60s, 100s, 120s
      Rinse time is around 5 seconds
Tea Garden

Dalun Shan Tea Garden is in Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan, with tea planted at an altitude of about 1000 meters. This high-mountain tea is known for its clear floral fragrance, imparted by the garden’s climate conditions with strong sunshine in the morning and cool fog in the afternoon, combined with the high altitude, dense surrounding forests, and rich soil.

All tea produced along Dongding Mountain have this strong flavor and sweet aftertaste because of this, easily recognizable once you’ve tasted it.

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Taiwan High Mountain Tea

In Taiwan, teas planted above 800 meters are referred to as ‘high-mountain’ tea, covering types such as Ali Shan Oolong Tea(1000-1500m), Ali Shan LuZhu Tea, Shan Ling Xi Oolong (1600m), Li Shan Oolong Tea (2000m+), and Da Yun Lin High Mountain Cha Wang Oolong Tea (2500m+).

Taiwan High Mountain Tea

The Difference between High Mountain Tea and Low Altitude Tea

Low-altitude teas, those grown below 800m altitude, differ from high-mountain tea in the geological features and climate of their growth environment. Taiwan is a mountainous island with a low-lying coast, resulting in a complicated climate: the mountainous geography can allow for multiple climate types to exist at the same time, and the temperature declines 6 degrees for each kilometer the altitude rises, resulting in the mountainsides remaining cool year-round.
The tea grows more slowly under these conditions, and develops a soft, elegant floral aroma. The geography also allows more distinctive nutritious substances to form in the tea, which is unique to high-mountain leaves over low-altitude ones.
The making of high-quality oolong tea requires both good material as well as good weather; some tea makers believe that the best time to make oolong tea is when the weather favors us. Good sunlight is needed, and the process must be done quickly - but unstable weather along the high mountains means that this is not always an option. In the end, though, the highest quality tea is always worth it.

Tea Master

Mr. Lui, the sixth generation owner of his family’s tea business, built the highest-altitude tea garden in all of Taiwan on Fushou Mountain. In 2006 Taiwan hosted the World Famous Tea Expo, with Mr. Lui as one of the sponsors; he also founded the Taiwan Tea Roasting Technical Seminar, and is greatly experienced in the skill of firing porcelain teaware.
He has a unique understanding of building a tea garden, saying that the environment, soil, and weather must all be integrated with the tea, and that water is the most powerful material for memorizing information: 80% of fresh-picked tea leaves is water, and it is this water that carries the characteristics of the soil and weather directly into the leaves.

Mr. Lui

Mr. Lui also told that apart from being tender and fresh, the leaves must be thick and fleshy with a bright green color in order to be considered as a good base for making high-mountain tea. He believes that all businesses other than teamaking are competitive: the specialty and uniquely high quality of Taiwan tea makes it irreplaceable.
“No matter what you do,” he said, “in the tea business or any other, you must find the joy of doing the business. When I talk about the leaves, or Fushou Mountain, or high-mountain tea itself, I can feel that joy in my heart.”

Mr. Lui and Angel

Mr. Lui and TeaVivre Founder Angel Chen

 
Origin

Dong Ding oolong tea is grown around Dongding Mountain, a branch of the Phoenix Mountains in Nantou, Taiwan. The name of the mountain translates to ‘Frozen Summit’. At an altitude of around 700-1000m a local cultivar, Qing-xin Oolong, is grown as the basis for most Dong Ding oolong tea.

Lugu Town, the main production area of the oolong, has an annual average temperature of 22℃ and rainfall of around 2200mm. This area is almost always humid and enshrouded in clouds and mist.

Map of Nantou

Tea Bush

Qingxin Oolong is a wild, small-leaf species. It is short in height with dense bunches of thick, glossy leaves, elastic and soft to the touch and deep green in color. This species mainly grows in the villages in Chiayi County such as Ali, Wenshan, Haisahn, Mingjian, and Lugu villages.

Qingxin Tea Tree

History

Oolong tea was first developed in the early 1700s in Fujian, China. As a cross between non-fermented green teas and fully-fermented black teas, it combines the best of both in a single tea - and as a result quickly became popular all throughout eastern China and Taiwan. Nowadays, Anxi is the largest producing area of oolong tea, with its representative type of tia guan yin oolong tea.

In the year 1855, a man named Linfengchi took a few oolong tea trees with him from the Wuyi Mountains in China and traveled to Dong Ding, in Lugu, Taiwan. Once there he replanted the tea trees, beginning the history of Dong Ding Oolong, one of Taiwan’s most famous teas. During 1858, a British company at that time called Jardine Matheson & Co. brought semi-finished oolong tea from Taiwan and spread it around the world.

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