““What’s that flattened gold bag on the bottom shelf of the tea cabinet?? It’s the last 5g of Taiwanese tieguanyin that I bought some 6 years ago from BTTC! Let’s finish it off.” So I dumped the...” Read full tasting note
“Teapot time. 5g, 100mL, 195F, 10s rinse (drank) and 10 loosely timed steeps of 10/15/20/25/30/35/45s and 1/2/5m. Unknown harvest, first ever Taiwanese tieguanyin. This was a very complex tea and...” Read full tasting note
“I recall going through a one ounce pouch of this tea during the first half of June, but I cannot pinpoint a time frame for my review notes beyond that. The label on the pouch listed this tea as...” Read full tasting note
“Received as a generous sample from the proprietor. I believe this is the 2015 harvest, but no idea on the season. Brewed in my porcelain Jingdezhen gaiwan with Los Angeles municipal tap water,...” Read full tasting note
Tieguanyin is a rolled oolong made with the Tieguanyin cultivar originally from Fujian, China. Of course, most Taiwanese are Fujian immigrants so it didn’t take long for them to bring some plants over and start growing their own Tieguanyin.
There are many “fakes” made with other oolong cultivars but this one is real procured by our friends in Taipei who commandeered the whole crop from a Muzha farmer. There’s not that much of it to go around and this tea is hard to come by even in Taiwan. I kept hearing the same thing from all of the farmers in our network when asking them to help me source an authentic Tieguanyin, “Good luck with that”, they said. Although we still haven’t been successful “Face to Farmer” with this particular tea, we offer this authentic Tieguanyin for your enjoyment.
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