2013 Amazing Alishan Oolong

Highlights:

• Old bush Oolong
• Thick and rich texture (very rare for oolongs!)
• Strong huigan (returning sweetness)
• Impressive Qi
• Unique baking method gives its incredibly robust characteristics
• Really high skill production technique

Obviously, we don’t source oolong and although I drink top oolongs occasionally this is the very first time I feel like I must share one, it’s that good.

Three things stand out about this tea:

1. It’s from natural farmed 40-50 year old bushes in a perfect environment
2. The rare high temperature baking in a pizza-like oven requires a lot of skill to do well and many years of rest before it’s ready to consume
3. The rest of the production technique (from frying to hand rolling) is also very high skill and flawless

The combination is a tea that is simply has so much better texture, stronger huigan and better Qi than any other taiwanese oolong I ever tried.

Our source has commissioned the whole production of this tea exclusively and aged it themselves since 2013. Unfortunately, the old bushes have since been destroyed by a ravine and the tea master died, so this is never going to be replicated.

7g (~0.25 ounces), 25g (~0.88 ounces), 75g (~2.64 ounces), 300g (~0.66 pounds) bags.