Superfine Taiwan Ali Shan Oolong Tea from Teavivre

Superfine Taiwan Ali Shan Oolong Tea

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea Leaves
Flavors
Butter, Cream, Floral, Sweet, Vegetal, Apricot, Cantaloupe, Coriander, Cucumber, Custard, Gardenias, Grass, Green Apple, Honeydew, Honeysuckle, Lettuce, Mineral, Orange Blossom, Orange Zest, Peach, Pear, Seaweed, Spinach, Sugarcane, Umami, Vanilla, White Grapes, Corn Husk, Kale, Peas, Bitter, Grain, Metallic, Roasted, Roasted Barley, Toast, Toasted Rice, Milk, Herbaceous, Creamy, Flowers, Jam, Coconut, Cinnamon, Brussels Sprouts, Salt, Savory
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 1 min, 45 sec 6 g 48 oz / 1411 ml

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  • “Last night was Writers’ Group night at my house. Everyone has come to expect unlimited tea! We are trying to come up with a good name for our group and want to incorporate a reference to tea, so...” Read full tasting note
  • “Sipdown, 117. I get it. I finally get it. What a really, really lovely tea. Thanks again so much to Teavivre for sending me this. So the first couple of times I had this I was a bit underwhelmed. I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Thank you Teavivre for this sample tea! At first, I underbrewed this tea. It was very pale and delicate… I let the leaves steep longer in the gaiwan, observing the transformation…playing with the...” Read full tasting note
  • “Nostalgia. This smells and tastes like the agar agar jellies my mom and grandma used to make for us when we were kids. I asked mom recently why she doesn’t make them anymore and I was told that...” Read full tasting note
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Origin: Ali Mountain in Taiwan

Ingredients: one bud with three leaves

Taste: pure and mild, tastes smooth and round in the month. The tea has a light fragrance of gardenia and milk, feels smooth going down to the throat, with long-lasting sweet aftertaste.

On the high mountain, climate is cold and cloudy. Sunshine time is short, as a result, the astringent substance in the tea leaves is reduced, thus the tea becomes sweeter. In the mean time, temperature in daytime and in night is distinctive, which make the tea tree grows slowly. Therefore, the leaf is soft and thick with high content of pectin substance. This is the unique feature of Ali Shan Oolong Tea as being a type of Taiwan High Mountain Tea. What’s more, the tea trees are irrigated with spring water on Ali Mountain, making the tea carries a sweet flavor of spring water.

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I’ve heard tell that Oolong is an ancient Chinese remedy for hangovers, so, in the interest of science, today I’m looking for empirical evidence in my teacup.

It was movie-and-harissa-chicken night in my house last night, which is an excuse to break out the beer, because harissa is made almost entirely of chilis, so something is needed to put out the fire, or at least numb the inflamed senses.

I got a couple of hundred grams of this Ali Shan in the TeaVivre anniversary sale (along with too many Puerhs to count, or to fit in my tea-tins, or, probably, ever manage to drink). I was introduced to Oolong by TeaVivre when Angel sent me some free samples last year, and this one was the best tea, hands-down, I’ve ever had.

On my 3rd steep of this, I’m only halfway through my research. It’s a double-blind placebo-controlled study but for the control-group results I’ll have to wait for my housemate to get home from work and ask him how he feels.

But so far, I feel no better than I did a couple of hours ago, though the tea tastes as delicious as ever, and its warm butteriness and autumn-leaves smell is making me care less about my fuzzy head.

Interestingly, Wikipedia cites some research that claims alcohol ‘has been found outside the solar system, in stars and planetary-forming regions of space.’ By a staggering coincidence, the movie we watched last night was War of the Worlds.

Flavors: Butter, Milk, Sweet

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 0 min, 45 sec 5 g 7 OZ / 200 ML
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