Chi Lan Oolong

Chi Lan is an unique middle-sized tea leaf traditi onal tea tree for Oolong tea from Fujian and has a beautiful legendary story that a strange tea tree with pale green young buds in the wildness in Zhangzhou, using the ancient Oolong processingp_20161113_162917 technique, tea farmer discovered the tea has a very unique flora flavor from orchid so named it as “Chi Lan”.

Traditional process:

  • It follows the traditional fermentation and  wood fired processes
  • Semi- to heavy fermentation with light roasted by wood fire

Color: dark olive green

Flavor:

  • With the dried leaves, the flavor are mixture of flora, mint, grass
  • Once it’s being warmed up, the flora flavor jumps out and with a notion caramel p_20161108_164927
  • The flora flavor stays noticeable throughout multiple infusions

Brewing:

  • today I brew it : 4 gm / 200ml / 95-99°C  in Yixing clay tea pot (but can also brew it with porcelain Gaiwan or ceramic tea pot)
  • After the 1st rings process, keep the first infusion short, i.e. 20 – 30 seconds
  • Keep the same seeping time for the 2nd and the 3rd infusions
  • Can gradually increase the steeping time afterwards

Taste:

  • The natural orchid flavor can intensify the taste in the first infusion, with long and complex after taste.  By shorten the seeping time, then you can control the taste
  • The sweet note becomes more noticeable from the 3rd infusion and onwards

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By Mei Lan Hsiao

Even though her family has nothing to do with tea, but she learnt the importance of consuming tea correctly in daily healthy diet based on the Chinese traditional medicine principles in Yin-Yang and 5 elements from her family when she was very young. She entered the tea learning in Taiwan since 1985, left her root because of marriage in 1991 helped her to expand her learning from original inward-out views to 360 degree. She started to promote the authentic knowledge about tea and wisdom in Chinese tea culture in Belgium since 1995. Tea has always been and will continue be her best teacher. In front of Nature and Tea, she remains as an innocent child, a life-time learning student.

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