Ancient Beauty5CAB Harvest: May 2022
Origin: China/ Yunnan/ Pu'er/ Lancang / Jingmaishan
Height: 1500 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Qiao Mu Da Ye Zhong (alte Teebäume)
An Oriental Beauty produced from old tea trees (according to the tea farmer infested by insects) from Jingmaishan in Yunnan. Usually, Pu Er is made from the old tea trees in Yunnan. This tea now combines in a wonderful way the depth of the tea from old trees with the velvety-mellow sweetness of the Oriental Beauties. This sweetness nicely englobes the heavy sweetness of the Yunnan black teas, too. The Ancient Beauty hence beautifully shows how the area, tea plant varietal and the way of processing the tea together influence and make up for the specific taste.
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Oriental Beauty (Dong Fang Mei Ren) Oriental Beauty is harvested during summer from tea bushes that have been attacked by insects. The bushes having been harvested in spring, the leaves that grow until summer are smaller. The name Oriental Beauty is said to come from the Queen Victoria and it was translated into Chinese Dong Fang Mei Ren. Formerly, the insect attacks were considered a flaw, and thus the tea had to be harvested before the attacks occurred. One day, a tea farmer sold one of his insect-damaged tea to a foreigner anyway, and even to a very high price. This is why Oriental Beauty is also called poser tea in Taiwan, which in the local dialect is Pong Fong. For Oriental Beauty, two leaves and a bud are plucked, the leaf material is oxidised rather strongly, and normally it is not roasted. The tea leaves that are attacked by the insects discharge a substance to keep them off, which makes the tea taste honey-sweet. Oriental Beauties are exceptionally aromatic, soft and velvety in taste, often with notes of lemon and cinnamon.
