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Taiwan Oolong

Taiwanese Jasmine Oolong Sìjìchūn台湾四季春茉莉乌龙

Táiwān sìjìchūn mòlì wūlóng

Origin
Taiwan (台灣), Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu Xiàn), Míngjiān Township (名間鄉...
Tea type
Taiwan Oolong
Gongfu water temperature
92 °C
Western water temperature
88 °C
SKU · TAIWAN-SIJICHUN-MOLI-WULONG-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
Taiwan (台灣), Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu Xiàn), Míngjiān Township (名間鄉, Míngjiān Xiāng) — the largest center for Sijichun production and scented teas in Taiwan
Tea type
Taiwan Oolong
SKU
TAIWAN-SIJICHUN-MOLI-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
Tea amount
5–7 g per 150 ml (flash steeps) or 2–3 g per 250 ml (steeping).
Teaware
Porcelain gaiwan or glass teapot — vessels that don't absorb odors, to preserve pure jasmine aroma. Yixing teapot not recommended — clay will absorb jasmine.
Gongfu water temperature
92 °C
Tea amount
6 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Tea-to-water ratio
10 s
Origin
Tea type
Oolong
Climate
Subtropical, with sufficient warmth and precipitation for year-round harvesting. Frequent fogs in the foothills.
Soil
Alluvial and lateritic, slightly acidic, well-drained.
Taste
Dry Leaf Aroma
Bright, intense jasmine — clean, natural, without chemical notes. In the background — light sweetness and herbaceous character of Sijichun (orchid, lilac).
Liquor Aroma
Rich, dominant jasmine. In good versions — light fruity (peach, apricot) and creamy notes from the base oolong.
Liquor Color
Clear, from light yellow to golden-amber.
Spent Leaves
Whole leaves from light green to olive color; edges slightly reddish (traces of oxidation).
Taste
Soft, smooth, refreshing. Jasmine sweetness harmonizes with the herbaceous-floral base of Sijichun. Light pleasant acidity. Astringency minimal or absent. Aftertaste — fresh, ja...
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
3
Details
Cultivar
*Jasminum sambac* (sambac jasmine) — the same species used in classic Fújiàn jasmine teas (茉莉花茶, Mòlì huā chá).
Pluck Standard
Bud + 2–3 leaves. Up to 6–8 harvests per year. For scenting, summer and autumn harvests are more often used — less valuable for "pure" oolong but excellent as a base f...
Name Breakdown
ཇ་འདི་ཐའེ་ཝན་དུ་ཉིན་ལྟར་གྱི་འཐུང་ཆ་དང་མགྲོན་པོར་ཇ་སྟོན་བྱེད་པར་དར་ཁྱབ་ཆེ། དེའི་བེད་སྤྱོད་ཆོག་ཚད། (སི་ཇི་ཁྲུན་ནི་ཐའེ་ཝན་གྱི་ཨོ་ལོང་ཇ་གྲས་སུ་རིན་གོང་ཆེས་ཆུང་བ་ཡིན།) དེས་ཇཱ་སྨིན་གྱ...
Amino Acids
L-theanine — sweetness, relaxation.
Essential Oils
Linalool, benzyl acetate, indole, jasmone, methyl anthranilate — key carriers of jasmine aroma. These are absorbed by tea leaves during scenting.
Polyphenols
EGCG — antioxidant. Moderate content due to light oxidation.
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