Oriental Beauty Tea, Honey Fragrance

Oriental Beauty tea is one of the most famous oolongs from Taiwan. It is white tip oolong tea or Champagne oolong. This tea is a semi-oxidized and non-roasted.

It is known that when Queen Elizabeth II tested it, she loved this tea for its beautiful tea leaves and unforgettable taste and tea was named after Queen as Oriental Beauty Tea.

Oriental Beauty Tea is semi-oxidized, made by light fire-baked traditional technology.

Only one bud with two top leaves are picked by hand to produce this high quality oolong tea. The buds are bitten by the Jacobiasca formosana (one kind of insect live in tea farms) and then the oolong will have a special sweet taste. Because of this insect, farmers couldn’t use any insecticide. As a result, the tea farms for Oriental beauty tea become totally natural and organic.

This is premium quality Oriental Beauty Tea from alpine plantation. Leaf quality is the main difference. For this tea only small and young leaves and buds are harvesting. Jacobiasca formosana prefers to bit younger leaves and that's why younger leaves and buds are more concentrating flavor and taste. Tea taste is more soft and delicious.

Leaves: are brown, wide, stretched and slightly twisted.

Taste
Aroma is very rich and special, with honey and fruity notes and spice bitter. This tea is perfect for special occasions.

Brewing
We recommend glass or porcelain pot. You can also use clay pot, but check that before no stronger teas were brewing there (for example red tea).

The temperature of water used for making Oriental beauty Oolong is lower. We recommend to use water about 80-85°C (175-185°F).

Use approximate 3 grams of tea leaves for 250 ml of water. It requires a longer brewing time than most of other Taiwan teas. 3-5 minutes is recommended and then increase steeping time for every next brewing. Same amount of tea can be prepared for several times.

Additional information
This is one of the traditional ways of brewing. Depending on individual gustatory preferences you can vary brewing time from 35s to 5 minutes.

You can also use Taiwanese traditional way of brewing - spilling, using Gaiwan and brew for 3-5 second each time.

Please note, that it is natural tea with high content of active elements, including caffeine, and minerals and some unusual feelings could appear. In that case we recommend decrease quantity of dry leaves and brewing time.

Oriental Beauty is an Oolong tea which is also known as White-Tip Oolong or Champagne Formosa. A special, reserve grade of Oriental Beauty with a pronounced fruit aspect. Queen Elizabeth II declared this tea an “Oriental Beauty“ as she sipped it for the first time. The name has been associated with Bai Hao Oolong ever since - and with good reason. The flavor notes and leaf color of this batch are mesmerizing.

Oriental Beauty is one of Taiwan most renowned Oolong teas. Only the top two tender leaves and white-tipped buds are selected. This tea is unusually aromatic, a quality that stirs the senses immediately. Fermentation 70-80%, the teas most distinguishing characteristic is the flash of silver which appears on the spear-like points of its most delicate leaves. After steeping, the tea produces the fruit-like sweetness of a black tea but with an incredible honey-like fragrance of an Oolong. It has a faintly honey sweet taste with light floral aroma. The tea attained fame in Japan and Europe.

Brewed color: Amber.

Flavor: Honey, Sweet & Smooth.

Origin: Beipu, Xinzhu, Taiwan

Classification: Organic Oriental Beauty Oolong Tea.