Yushan High Mountain Gui Fei Oolong | Yu Shan Gui Fei Gao Shan Wu Long Cha - Option: 50 g

Gui Fei Oolong 貴妃烏龍茶 is a remarkably distinctive and unique Taiwanese tea.both in taste and processing. In terms of taste, it could easily be summed up as a flood of honey, honey and more honey! Wild honey with its mineral and pastoral complexity and the sweetness of wild flowers with roasted nuts and woody undertones. Honey in color, honey in texture. Honey in a soothing, sweet soothing taste! The multi-stage roasting is done with airtight breaks with several weeks in between. This allows the flavors and aromas to stabilize and fully permeate the leaves. It is a great tea for cool afternoons and evenings or enjoying by the summer fire.

In general, Gui Fei Oolong is a rather special and highly prized oolong and as mentioned, it has a wonderful honey character. This Oolong is made from hand-picked leaves of the Jin Xuan 金萱 (TRES #12) cultivar and comes from Taiwan’s tea-oriented Nantou district. Its honey-like character, and in general the character of all "Beauty" type teas, is mainly due to the presence of small green jumping insects (Jacobiasca formosana) that nibble on the tea leaves during growth. Tea plants react to this attack by producing a larger amount of polyphenols, which give the tea a unique "beauty" taste when processed. The existence of these insects is also evidence that these teas are grown according to organic standards.