Award Winning Tie Guan Yin "Iron Goddess" Oolong Tea

Whenever Anxi County is mentioned, many people automatically think of Anxi Tie Guan Yin “Iron Goddess” tea, well-known both at home and abroad as one of the top 10 Chinese teas. This tea can withstand a great number of infusions, and will exude a lofty, elegant aroma the whole way through, resulting in a truly unique experience.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	212℉ / 100℃		212℉ / 100℃
	2 Teaspoons / 5g Tea		7g Tea
	Brewing time: 3 - 5 mins		7 steeps: rinse, 15s, 25s, 35s, 45s, 55s, 75s, 85s

Fujing Tea Garden, at an elevation of between 500 and 800 meters, is located in Huqiu, one of the main areas in Anxi that produce tie guan yin tea. The weather here is warm and moist all year, with an average temperature between 16 and 19℃, and average annual rainfall of about 1800ml.

Mr. Lin has been a professional tea farmer for more than forty years. Born in a traditional tea family, he was deeply influenced by his family and built his own tea factory. With the gradual growth of his factory, he is trying to seek the common development between enterprise and tea farmers.

He thinks that the most challengeable factor is the weather. If tea leaves suffered from bad weather, the yield would be reduced and the quality would not reach the standard. If tea leaves suffered from cold weather, straws would be used to cover them and protect them from being frosted. This is what Mr. Lin gets from his experience over the years.

Therefore, the first priority is to strictly control product quality and ensure its reputation. Mr. Lin, together with his tea factory, will continue to provide high-quality tea leaves and regularly increase the number of tea factory which provides the healthy and natural tea beverage.

Anxi is in the southeastern part of Fujian, with a total area of almost 3000 square kilometers. The environment here is definitely suitable for planting trees in terms of temperature and rainfall. According to the records in the Anxi County Annuals, tea production in this region began during the Tang Dynasty and then grew and expanded throughout the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourished in the last century with a history of over one thousand years. Anxi is renowned as the capital of tea in Fujian, and in March 1995, it was named the Home of Chinese Oolong Tea by the Ministry of Agriculture.

C. sinensis varietal Tieguanyin reproduces sexually and takes the form of a shrub with a medium-sized, oval-shaped leaf, deep emerald-green in color and thick but fragile, with the characteristic jagged edges. The dent of the leaf is thin, and the buds of this type grow to a purple-red color. It has earned the phrase “delicious but difficult” to describe it, as only fertile soil, qualified tea shrubs, and appropriate planting and cultivation methods can produce the highest-quality tieguanyin from this tree.

Tie Guan Yin is the representative of Chinese oolong tea, first developed during the early 1700s in the Fujian area of China as a cross between non-fermented green teas and fully-fermented black teas, presenting the best of both in a single tea. Oolong quickly became popular throughout all of eastern China and Taiwan, and in the early 1970s became widely popular in Japan, and from there spread to the rest of the world. Fujian, the home of oolong tea, still produces the finest.