Oriental Beauty Tea

The beautifully shaped leaves and buds display a variety of hues that impart decadent and complex flavours.

Oriental beauty tea. It can only be harvested in summer and needs to be. It is also known as champagne oolong or bai hao oolong. Also known as dongfang meiren eastern beauty bai hao oolong white tip oolong and pengfeng cha braggart s tea oriental beauty is a unique and famous tea. Characteristics oriental beauty tea is made with jacobiasca formosana bitten tea so tea gardens can not use any pesticides.

Green crickets these little insects need to be attracted to the tea garden and then need to bite the plant to suck the. Here the mountains give way to rolling hills and the mild climate is ideal for growing tea. Oriental beauty white tip oolong and champagne oolong are other names under which dongfang meiren is marketed in the west. Processing oriental beauty tea production today this tea is mainly produced in the beipu and emei in the hsinchu county in taiwan.

It traveled to the west and was given its name by an english queen for the beautiful complexity of flavor. Unlike most of high quality taiwanese oolong teas which are harvested in spring or winter classical oriental beauty is made from summer harvest tea leaves picked in june and july. Oriental beauty oolong tea dongfang meiren 東方美人茶 taste. During the hot and humid summer period tea leaves are allowed to be bitten by small leafhoppers known as green fly.

Oriental beauty or bai hao oolong dried leaf. The tea has natural fruity and honey like. Oriental beauty fragrant decadent intriguing mr chen s garden nantou taiwan this highly fragrant oolong tea is carefully oxidised to elicit iconic notes of floral fruit sweetness. Oriental beauty tea has honey fruit aroma and notes of spice.

You can imagine that it is black tea with. We recommend glass or porcelain pot. Oriental beauty is taiwan s most famous tea and has many english names. Dongfang meiren or baihao among other chinese names is a heavily oxidized non roasted tip type oolong tea originating in hsinchu county taiwan.

Traditionally it is grown in hsinchu county in the north of taiwan. A rare extraordinary tea also known as imperial formosa oolong champagne oolong and white tip oolong. You can also use clay pot but check that before no stronger teas were. Bai hao is the traditional taiwanese name meaning white tipped.

Harvesting a bud. Oriental beauty oolong tea or dongfang meiren was the most precious tea in 20th century taiwan. Terpenes are released in the bitten leaves which creates a honey like taste. This tea is perfect for special occasions.