Oriental Beauty Select Grade Oolong, Lot 445

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200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 oz / 88 ml

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  • “Dry leaf: DRIED FRUIT, GRAPE VINE, SWEET: prune, raisin, dried fig, grape skin, musty green, grape vine, blackstrap molasses, green stem, sweet and sour, bitter honey Smell: FRUIT, SWEET: green...” Read full tasting note
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This year’s Select Grade is quite unique and quite different in many ways from the previous lots we’ve proposed throughout the years. This is the first time that we offer an Oriental Beauty that doesn’t originate from it’s original terroir, further north, in the counties of Hsinchu and Miaoli. This tea is the result of a collaboration between a grower in the beautiful terroir of Meishan and our family. We’ve challenged this friend to produce a Beauty tea from his summer picking of Qing Xin leaves. This grower is coincidentally often blessed with a generous presence of “Mixian” taste and aroma from his leaf pickings: the sought after, and often elusive, honey component that is so characteristic of good OBs. His strict obedience to non-abusive responsible practices regarding pesticide usage certainly offers a more welcoming terrain for the little leaf hoppers to offer their contribution in bringing out the honey taste! As a bonus, his teas are well below the strict EU norm for residual pesticides. The produced tea was then finished in our own premises where our resident master has slow baked this lot to perfection. A good bouquet of fruits with a hint of rose entices the taste buds that will confirm the refreshing quench of citrus with a thick wild honey brioche texture and balanced spiciness. There is nothing low-end to this Oriental Beauty tea apart from the price! It is generous and most satisfying.

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Dry leaf: DRIED FRUIT, GRAPE VINE, SWEET: prune, raisin, dried fig, grape skin, musty green, grape vine, blackstrap molasses, green stem, sweet and sour, bitter honey

Smell: FRUIT, SWEET: green apple, light caramel, bread pudding, musty grape

Taste: FRUIT, SWEET, GRAPE VINE: candied green apple, sweet potato, malt, sweet and sour, green twig, green grape, grape vine/leaf

This was a fun one! To be honest, a lot of the experience reminded me of a black tea, but there were little surprising pops of flavor where the oolonginess asserted itself. Especially interesting was a multifaceted “grape” experience that ranged from grape sweetness to green “leafiness” to dry vine/stem flavors. Weird and hard to pinpoint, but that made it a pleasure to return to each day.

This is the “select grade”, the lowest grade that TTC offers. There’s premium, superior, supreme, private reserve… I have no idea what this means in terms of little leaf-munching critters or the resulting flavors. In any case, this is a tasty, affordable treat.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 88 ML

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