Ali Shan Mountain Oolong - 2015 World Tea Winner - 50g - Multiple Brewings, Makes Over 50 Cups

Description

First Place Winner at 2015 North American Tea Championship. Ali Mountain Oolong is grown 1000m above sea level on the mountains in Taiwan. Hand harvested, processed, and crafted. Enjoy a delicate yet robust floral note with this tea. A sweet and smooth aftertaste lingers on the palate long after the last sip. This tea brews to a beautiful golden liquor, and can be infused over 5 times. This is a tea for that a seasoned tea connoisseur as well as a beginner tea drinker can appreciate. About Ali Mountain Oolong - In the world of high mountain oolong in Taiwan, oolongs are most often named with a combination of cultivar and the location name of the tea gardens. How to tell if your high mountain oolong is the real stuff? That is a hard one for the beginner tea drinker who has never tasted the "real" stuff. But one clue will be to inspect the tea. The tea should be tightly rolled into a ball shape, but should not be uniform. Uniformity is a sign of machine processing. Secondly, when brewed, the tea should not just be a simple leaf, you would want to see leaf on a stem. Yes, stem! This is the hallmark of a hand picked high quality oolong. Finally, it is hard to distinguish the altitude of the tea just from the tastes. But the names and time of harvests will give you the clues. Happy drinking!