Dong Ding Gui Fei4TGD Harvest: June 2022
Origin: Taiwan / Nantou / Lugu / Fenghuang
Height: 700 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Qing Xin Wu Long (Insektenbefallen)
A real, original Gui Fei of good quality. The tea leaves are infested by insects, which alters the taste. A litle more oxydised than other Oolong and lightly roasted.Dongding is the name of a mountain where tea has been produced since approximately 1850. The gardens are situated at an altitude of approximately 800 meters and are thus not considered High Mountain Teas. Nonetheless, the climate is very well suited for growing teas of excellent quality: often sunny in the morning, foggy in the afternoon, and frequently windy.
Character:
Light, tender and seducingly fragrant, this tea surprises with a really powerful, spicy-tart aspect.
Category:
Gui Fei Guifei means Emperor's concubine and is a relatively new type of production, which has been invented after one of the latest big earthquakes in Taiwan, near the mountain of Dongding. The tea gardens were untended for a while, during which the tea bushes were attacked by insects. As the tea bushes were not harvested in spring, the infested tea leaves grew too large to be used for the typical Oriental Beauty. So they were used to make a greener, ball-shaped Oolong tea: after the oxidation, the leaves - often with the stems - are alternately fired in heating drums and drums and formed into small lumps. Guifei combine the lightness of green Oolong with the heavy and fruity-sweet notes of Oriental Beauties.
Storage:
This tea was produced in a relatively green manner, but sufficienty oxidised and then roasted, it can thus be kept at room temperature and even be aged.
