Introduced in 2020, this tea has become a favourite with many of you despite the fact that we bent our rules (ever so slightly) to produce it. One of the criteria that we've abided by was to not sell any tea that was flavoured in any way using concentrated essences or distillates. Full disclosure: a hint of bergamot essence was added to this tea. We must stress the word “hint”. We're very far from a typical run-of-the-mill Earl Grey here. We source local organic bergamot fruit from one of our neighbour's relative (see picture) that we cut, grate and dry ourselves in our workshop. The fruit pieces are then added to a select lot of organic Jin Xuan Oolong Tea that was lightly baked to bring out its creamy sweetness. A very light sprinkling of EU compliant essence is used to support the heady citrus freshness the natural bergamot fruit pieces confer to the tea. The whole process is quite fastidious making this tea one of the most labour intensive ones we make! In the end, all flavour elements are balanced leaving room for the particular tea cultivar to express itself as well as the uniqueness of our local Bergamot varietal. We hope you give it a try and voice your thoughts. We leave it up to you to decide whether it should become a bonafide Taiwan Tea Crafts in-line offering or not.