Li Shan Tie Guan Yin5TLT Harvest: Winter 2020
Origin: Taiwan / Taizhong / Heping
Height: 2000 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Tie Guan Yin
A very nice High Mountain Tea from Lishan from the Tieguanyin variety, strongly oxidised and roasted. It is very difficult to produce a strongly oxidised oolong at such a high altitude, also very weather-dependent, so there are rarely really good qualities. The Tieguanyin tea plant originates from Anxi and was brought to Muzha near Taibei in Taiwan in the 1920s. Later it was also cultivated in the Taiwanese mountains such as on the Alishan and the Lishan.
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High Mountain Tea Gao Shan Cha High Mountain Teas, Chinese Gao Shan Cha, are ball-shaped Oolongs from tea gardens above 1000m above sea level. Since the mid-19th century, Oolong teas were produced especially to be exported to western countries, and in the beginning of the 20th century, under the Japanese colonial rule, also black tea was being produced for export. During the 1980's tea farmers began to grow tea plants in high mountain areas. The production of High Mountain Tea was intended for Taiwanese tea connoisseurs, but nowadays, it is also seen as a status symbol. In the climate of the mountains, where mist and rain often dominate the weather, tea plants grow slower, which leads to a more intense taste of the tea. Additionally, it gets more difficult and more laborious to produce a good tea in this altitude and climate . The tea varietals used here are mostly Qingxin Oolong, and sometimes also Jinxuan. Other varietals proved not suitable for these circumstances. High Mountain Teas are very pleasing, soft and quaffable teas with surprisingly intense and diverse aromas, sometimes beautifully enhanced through roasting.
