Category: Tea – Oolong

Today, YM asked for my thinking  that someone she came across from Chinese social media claims her family owns 60,000km2 tea plantation as ‘family farm’ in Wuyi, Fujian and yearly tea production is about 5 ton.  Is it true or false? Is this claim a little bit too exaggerate? Let’s see what the actual information from the Wuyi government:… Continue reading A Stroke of Wuyi Rock Tea

  Tea is more than business but is about trustful friendship. Since I started to promote pure quality tea, I started to search for low pesticide or even organic quality  Oolong tea that is being processed according to the traditional fermentation and roasted by wood. In the early 2002, the internet technology was not that… Continue reading Eco-Tie Guan Yin

KP’s ecological tea garden is in the deep mountain area where is few hours drive from the nearyby city.  The tea garden is surrounding by nature forest and far away from any sort of pollutions.  In his ecological tea garden, there are three (3) tea tree cultivars, i.e. Tie Guan Yin, Jin Xuan and Mei… Continue reading Eco-Jin Xuan Oolong

Friend asked me on Twitter which tea do I normally drink when feeling stress out.  I told him, I don’t specifically choose which type of tea, instead I simply follow my instinct on that moment or whatever comes into handy at that moment.  In this cloudy and greyish late spring morning, the thought of old… Continue reading >12 yrs Old Shui Xian

Oolong tea is the most sophisticated tea among the six tea types because it is made through very complex manufacturing processes. Not all semi-fermented teas can be named as Oolong tea, because Oolong has specific quality criteria to evaluate its flavor and taste. The leaves can be picked and processed in four seasons, and each… Continue reading Oolong Tea

“How organic is true ecological?” Well, I think this photo is more convincing than thousand words or a piece of organic certificate. This is the photo of tea picking from the ecological tea farm in Fujian. Not only it’s in the middle of wildness, far away from human populltion; but also the owner insist Only… Continue reading Ecological Oolong Tea

This is a rice-aroma flavoured Ding Ding Oolong that my student bought from Holland to the lesson last night, the shop has mistaken the height of mountain to 1200mt, actually the the correct information of Dong Ding Mountain should be 743mt. I did not say too much when I first smelled a very strong rice-aroma… Continue reading Learning from a flavoured Dong Ding Oolong

After the Chinese Moon Festival, it’s time for the picking of Autumn Tie Guan Yin. Among six tea types, Oolong is the one requires the most sophisticated and complex processing procedures and experience.  If we said how the withering process has been managed set the right starting tone for the beautiful tea melody, then the… Continue reading Honey Tie Guan Yin