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Taiwan Oolong

Shānlínxī Hóng Oolong杉林溪红乌龙

Shānlínxī hóng wūlóng

Origin
Taiwan, Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu xiàn), Zhúshān Township (竹山鎮, Zhús...
Tea type
Taiwan Oolong
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
92 °C
SKU · SHANLINXI-HONG-WULONG-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
Taiwan, Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu xiàn), Zhúshān Township (竹山鎮, Zhúshān zhèn), Shānlínxī tea district (杉林溪, Shānlínxī)
Tea type
Taiwan Oolong
SKU
SHANLINXI-HONG-WULONG-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 92°C, 6 g / 100 ml, 10s, 8 steeps
  • Western: 88°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
ཆུ་གྲང་མོའི་ནང་དུ་ ༥ གྲམ་ཁོངས་ ༥༠༠ མི་ལི་ལི་ཊར། མཁོད་ཁང་ནང་དུ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༦–༨ བཞག ཧོང་ལིན་ཧོང་གི་ཨུ་ལུང་དམར་པོ་ནི་གྲང་མོའི་ཐབས་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་ལེགས་ཤོས་ཀྱི་མིང་འཛིན་ཞིག་ཡིན། ཇ་ནི་གཙང་མའི...
Tea amount
5–6 g per 100–120 ml (gongfu method); 2.5–3 g per 200–250 ml (European method, 2–3 minute steeping).
Teaware
Porcelain gàiwǎn (蓋碗, gàiwǎn) — best choice for first acquaintance and aroma evaluation. Clay teapot (Yixing or Taiwanese clay) suits roasted versions, emphasizing dep...
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
92 °C
Tea amount
6 g
Origin
Tea type
Oolong
Taste
Dry Leaf Appearance
Tightly rolled semi-spherical granules, identical in shape to standard gaoshan oolong. Color — dark, from deep olive-brown to almost black with glossy sheen; significantly darke...
Dry Leaf Aroma
Fresh and sweet — notes of green apple, ripe apricot and honey. In «mixiang» versions — distinct honey-floral component. Coniferous-woody undertone characteristic of S...
Liquor Color
From golden-orange to rich amber-red or cognac color, clear and transparent, with pronounced brilliance. Color intensity approaches red tea, but transparency and oiliness reveal...
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
1
Sensory Source Descriptor Li Intensity
1
Details
Pluck Standard
Hand picking (手摘, shǒuzhāi) — bud with 2–3 unfolded leaves. For red oolong, slightly more mature shoots are acceptable than for classic gaoshan oolong.
Alkaloids
Caffeine — moderate level (typical for Taiwanese oolongs), theobromine, theophylline.
Essential Oils
Qingxin Oolong cultivar is characterized by high content of alcoholic aromatic compounds (50–70% of volatile profile). With heavy oxidation, they transform into ester and terpen...
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, fluorine — profile enriched due to multi-component mountain soils of Shanlinxi.
Vitamins
Vitamin C (in non-roasted versions), B-group vitamins, vitamin A.
Early harvest months
4, 9
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