Li Shan Gui Fei4TGL Harvest: October 2016
Origin: Taiwan / Nantou / Ren'ai / Cuifeng
Height: 1750-1850 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Qing Xin Wu Long (Insektenbefallen)
A real, original Guifei of finest quality made from leaves stung by insects. It's more oxidised than other light oolongs and slightly roasted. It comes from the teagarden in Cuifeng, on Mount Li (Lishan).
Character:
A tea that connects worlds. The fruity and sweet notes remind of tropical abundance and at the same time every sip is clear, mineral and aromatic, like a mountain lake surrounded by growth of wild herbs.
Category:
Gui Fei Guifei means Emperor's concubine and is a relatively new type of production, which has been invented after one of the latest big earthquakes in Taiwan, near the mountain of Dongding. The tea gardens were untended for a while, during which the tea bushes were attacked by insects. As the tea bushes were not harvested in spring, the infested tea leaves grew too large to be used for the typical Oriental Beauty. So they were used to make a greener, ball-shaped Oolong tea: after the oxidation, the leaves - often with the stems - are alternately fired in heating drums and drums and formed into small lumps. Guifei combine the lightness of green Oolong with the heavy and fruity-sweet notes of Oriental Beauties.
Storage:
This tea was produced in a relatively green manner, but sufficienty oxidised and then roasted, it can thus be kept at room temperature and even be aged.
