Fancy Oolong Sup5TF1 Harvest: June 2016
Origin: Taiwan / Xinbei / Sanxia
Height: 100-700 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Qing Xin Gan Zhong (Insektenbefallen)
A relatively dark Fancy Oolong of excellent quality with a beautifully worked leaf. Strictly speaking, it is even an Oriental Beauty, since the tea bushes have benn attacked by insects before the harvest. This tea is from the same tea garden as our Taiwan Biluochun.
Category:
Fancy Oolong Fancy Oolong are the Taiwanese export Oolong teas, of which the simpler qualities are called Choice Oolong. The Chinese name for Fancy is Fanzhuang and can be translated as packed by barbarians/foreigners. Fancy Oolong is, thus, the foreigners' tea in Taiwan. These are quite strongly oxidised Oolongs which are not roasted and that are harvested throughout the year. Fancy and Choice Oolong are, depending on the quality, soft to strong, sweetish-tender and sometimes reminding of a light black tea.
