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Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea
NT$700 - NT$1,350
Flavor: Fresh herbal aroma. Balanced, floral and buttery vegetal notes. Clean, fragrant aftertaste.
The Alishan mountain range is the southernmost High Mountain Tea producing region on Taiwan. The Tropic of Cancer runs right through it, and this lower latitude is considered to provide superior quality and frequency of sunlight, making it more conducive to tea cultivation than its northern counterparts. Alishan High Mountain Tea is known for its fragrant qualities and well-rounded, balanced flavor profile. Tea from this region typically has a more pronounced character.
The Alishan mountain range is the southernmost High Mountain Tea producing region on Taiwan. The Tropic of Cancer runs right through it, and this lower latitude is considered to provide superior quality and frequency of sunlight, making it more conducive to tea cultivation than its northern counterparts. Alishan High Mountain Tea is known for its fragrant qualities and well-rounded, balanced flavor profile. Tea from this region typically has a more pronounced character.
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Harvest: Hand-picked.
Region: Alishan, Taiwan
Elevation: 1200m
Tasting Notes
Alishan High Mountain Oolong Tea is known for its fresh, floral and mild herbal aromatic qualities. It offers a delicate balance of sweet and astringent qualities that leave an especially clean mouth-feel combined with a lingering, fragrant finish in the nose. Its a refined and complex combination of floral and sweet qualities with the inherent bitter/astringent character of tea leaves that gives Alishan High Mountain Oolong its claim to fame.
Origin
This tea producing region in Chiayi County is the most recently developed of the major high elevation tea regions, and has gained increasing renown and demand for its produce over the last 20 years. In fact, a significant amount of tea is procured from this region to be used in competitions elsewhere in Taiwan.