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Starting at $ 5.40
This is most likely our best selling Oriental Beauty grade and rightfully so. We agree that it may not have the same percentage of silver tips or a few uneven leaves through the Lot, but it tastes like a Premium grade at a cheaper price; that’s what everybody likes, and even more so this year with our newly revised lower prices! We don’t mind mentioning that this is also the grade that requires the most work for our in-house team as it is the result of a blend of carefully selected lots that we enhanced through a delicate short bake. If OB producers themselves revert to the practice of blending, we then prefer to do it ourselves! The local name of Bai Hao best describes one of its characteristic features: the presence of a white furry tip accompanied by the 2 following leaves which are carefully picked in the summer time. Oriental Beauty is a summer tea as the grower must wait until his crop has received the visit of small green leaf hoppers that will nibble the leaves and leave their characteristic contribution to the taste of this tea: a wonderfully sweet honey finish that is quite distinctive and pleasant. Even if 2022 was yet again not the best year for the little bugs, this tea packs a generous and rich aromatic palette of baked fruity sweets. When pouring freshly boiled water over our tea, one will immediately recognize the compelling exuberant aroma of citrus fruits that is the characteristic of a good Beauty tea. The cupping will not disappoint either, as the velvety texture warms the palate and reveals a wonderful fruitiness to the liqueur with hints of spiciness that makes this tea a perfect accompaniment to cakes and sweets.
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This tea has many names. Oriental Beauty is possibly to most popular appellation for it in the western world since this name was given to it by Queen Elizabeth II when she described the wonderful experience of drinking it. Here, in Taiwan, it is more widely known as Bai Hao oolong (white tip oolong) or even Pong Fong tea. Out west, it was simply known as Formosa Oolong for many years. Either way you wish to call it, Oriental Beauty tea is one of the most distinctive Taiwanese tea there is. The local name of Bai Hao best describes one of its characteristic features: the presence of a white furry tip accompanied by the 2 following leaves which are carefully picked in the summer time. Oriental Beauty is a summer tea as the grower must wait until his crop has received the visit of small green leaf hoppers that will nibble the leaves and leave their characteristic contribution to the taste of this tea: a wonderfully sweet honey finish that is quite distinctive and pleasant. A deep oxidation of around 75% confers a wonderful fruitiness to the liqueur followed by a light roasting to blend in and seal all the expressive characteristics of this tea.
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SK112 (verified owner) –
This lot, 1146, has surprisingly potent mixiang(honey fragrance) with good balance of body, aroma, and taste. It has excellent value for its price.
I think the degree of mixiang it has is quite close to the level of Can Deng Jiang(參等獎) from Hsinchu Oriental beauty Tea Competition(新竹東方美人茶比賽), which is several times more expensive than its current price of 65.45$ per 250g.
I am not saying it is of the same overall quality, but if you are looking for true Oriental Beauty that has adequate degree of mixiang, which is a defining characteristic of the kind while many on the market are fail to have, it is a real deal.
and somehow I’m getting milky aroma from leaves and that is a plus for me.