Sanxia Traditional Oriental Beauty "Fan Zhuang" Oolong Tea - Summer 2017

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong
Flavors
Floral, Honey, Muscatel, Sweet
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Not available
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 oz / 100 ml

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For this tea, we will use some of the same background information from our other Oriental Beauty teas, because this tea is a type of Oriental Beauty, but with a little different story. Like we already mentioned, in the old days of Taiwan, “Oriental Beauty” was the most refined “Fan Zhuang Oolong” (番莊烏龍), a name which came about in the early 20th century literally means “a tea for selling to uncivilized people”, because the foreigners (Read more

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This is an incredibly smooth tea, very floral with some subtle sweetness. There is absolutely no bitterness and only a very little astringency, but the mouthfeel is slightly drying and, interestingly, also mouth-watering.

Out of the oolongs I have tried, this one is definitely the closest to Darjeelings. It can also yield a lot of tea as long as you keep the early steeps short enough. Today I did 10 infusions giving 1l of tea from 5g of leafs.

Flavors: Floral, Honey, Muscatel, Sweet

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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