Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan Oolong Tea

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  • Flavor: Creamy, floral aroma. Smooth, buttery, herbal character. Pronounced milky finish.

    Garden: Our Alishan Jin Xuan High Mountain OolongTea is cultivated on a residential farm, run by a husband and wife team, with their own factory, and surrounded by forest. It embodies pretty much everything we aspire to support in the local industry, and represent to tea lovers around the world. This homestead farm is among the highest elevation farms in the valley, with no residential development above it.

    Harvest: Hand-picked, medium batch, Ruili, Taiwan.  winter 2022.

    Elevation: 1000m

  • This winter's batch of Alishan High Mountain Jin Xuan Oolong is a prime representative of Jin Xuan's claim to fame. It has the buttery/milky character that has popularized this strain of tea. These leaves brew a light, silky smooth mouth feel with a delicate but substantial flavor profile that carry a "butteriness" from start to finish. The milky notes are in the aroma, on the palate, and especially in the finish. It's a very friendly introduction to High Mountain Tea that is bound to please newbies as well as experienced drinkers of Taiwan's finest.

    Jin Xuan, or Tai Cha #12 is a Taiwanese cultivar that continues to gain popularity both here in the local farming industry and among tea lovers all over the globe. It is highly versatile in terms of adapting to variations in climate and growing conditions, and it can be made into virtually any type of tea. We've enjoyed Jin Xuan tea leaves made into Green Tea, Black Tea, unroasted Oolong, and roasted Oolong. In short, it works across the board. Jin Xuan has become most popularly known as a minimally oxidized, unroasted tea that offers a flavor profile that has given it the nickname "Milky Oolong" due its smooth buttery character and aroma.

  • This batch of tea comes from Ruili Village in the Meishan Township of Chiayi County, Taiwan. We mostly source our Alishan High Mountain Oolong from same farm. The neighboring villages of Ruifeng and Ruili have increasingly become popular sources of Alishan High Mountain Oolong in the last 10-15 years in the local industry. Originally, Alishan tea was originally made famous by the newly developed area on the south-western foothills of Alishan, with the most famous place name being Shizuo. This area is along the main tourist route leading to Alishan Scenic Area, and the local tea industry flourished and developed as a result. While quality tea is still produced in this area, it has become somewhat over-popularized and over-developed.

    When farms are run privately, there is more care and responsibility that goes into the management of them. This, combined with smaller factories results in smaller quantities of tea leaves being processed on a daily and seasonal basis. This smaller batch factor allows for more customized processing, and is also typically done by the farmers/owners themselves, who take more pride in their processing methods and quality of their product.

  • Mug: 8g tea in 300ml 100°C water. Steep for 4 minutes. Re-steep. Adjust to taste.

    Cold Brew: Use 5g of tea per liter of water. Brew tea at room temperature for 2-3 hours, and enjoy. Or you can put your cold brew bottle in the fridge to brew overnight and be ready to drink the next day.

    Gong Fu: Start with a 1:15 leaf to water ratio, e.g. 10g of tea leaves for a 150mL teapot. Use boiling temperature water and brew for about 50 seconds. Increase brewing time with each successive brew. The leaves can be brewed 6 times.

Customer Reviews

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Peter
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Likes: Flavor and aroma
Amazing quality

This type of tea has been my favorite since I first visited Taiwan almost two decades ago, and it is rare to find tea of this amazing quality in the US. I love the flavor, color, and aroma of high mountain Alishan oolong and it is what I drink on most days

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Vedrana
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Likes: As noted in the review above, I like that this jin xuan is very sweet, which is also my favorite type of tea taste.
Delicious tea

The aromatic notes I get from this tea are predominantly sweet: a whiff of coconut milk, a ripe peach or pear and a buttered almond cake in later steeps. It is absolutely delicious and definitely a very good value for money. I happily call it my morning pleasure.

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Alicia Taylor
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Favorite

Great quality and very tasty. Would buy again. Probably my favorite from this company.

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Timo
A special batch

Got to agree with the others that Winter 22 is unlike a typical winter tea that I'm used to. I think it has much more character than Summer 22. I like to alternate this Jin Xuan with a good Qing Xin, such as the Alishan High Mountain.

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Anna
Winter 2022 Floral

As mentioned by another customer, this batch is very floral. I personally love it and it makes such a difference drinking this tea vs commercial ones. Will buy again and again.