Taiwan is famous for its oolong teas, and with good reason. There are many words that could be used to describe them, but with just one, they are fantastic, plain and simple. |
The tea industry in Taiwan began with the arrival of Fujian immigrants from China, who made their way across the Taiwan Strait to the small island. They arrived in droves, approximately two million strong when all was said and done.Luckily for Taiwan’s aboriginal Polynesian inhabi- tants they didn’t arrive empty handed, but bearing gifts in the form of tea seeds and tea bush cuttings along with experience growing and producing tea. The Fujian immigrants wasted no time in |
facture what would eventually become some of the world’s best oolong teas.
Today Taiwan has a thriving tea industry with approximately 50,000 acres under cultivation, that There are three main tea growing regions in Taiwan; north, cen- Tung Ting oolong (spelled DongDing in Pinyin) is also called Some believe Tung Ting to be the first The story behind the debate goes, that in Tung Ting is a ball-rolled oolong, lightly oxidized (between Next comes Wenshan BaoZhong (or Paper Wrapped During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan during WWII, the Bai Hao oolong (also called Oriental Beauty or White Tip Alishan oolong comes from the famous Alishan Mountains in Formosa oolong is the tea that made Taiwan famous, developed |
Other oolongs from Taiwan include Ti Guan Yin (or Tieguanyin), produced from the same clonal var- ieties of Ti Kuan Yin tea bushes originally brought from Fujian Province, China. Also look for Jin Xuan oolong, Tianhe oolong, Fulu oolong, and Yu Shan (Jade Mountain) oolong.Taiwan also produces and exports a small amount of sencha style green tea to Japan to supple- specialty and small Enjoy. |