Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Black - 2012 RARE "forgotten tea"

Flavor: Freshly cut fruit wood aroma with a hint of spearmint. Soothing notes of cinnamon, black cherry vanilla, rose, and slightly savory herbs. The tea has a very rich, mellow, balanced character reminiscent of mulled wine and/or stewed apples and prunes.

Elevation: 1500 meters

Shan Lin Xi Mountain, Taiwan

Harvested: Winter 2012

LIMITED - Sold only as 50 gram pouch

The Story Of This Tea:

This tea is the result of a unique happenstance of using winter harvested high mountain oolong leaves to produce a very interesting “red oolong” or black tea.

When the leaves were undergoing indoor oxidation, they were inadvertently left on the top rack – high above eye level. They were discovered the next morning, after they had oxidized to a level nearing that of black tea. The tea master improvised his method in completing the processing of this small batch.

This farm has consistently been the source of prize winning tea in Taiwan's largest tea competitions due to the expertise of its proprietor. Far West Tea Traders is grateful to have acquired nearly all the remaining batch of this "forgotten tea" because we knew upon the first sip that it was special. A winter crop of Shan Lin Xi High Mountain Tea grown at 1500m elevation that was mistakenly made into a red oolong or black tea is definitively a RARE batch of tea.

This tea is shipped to you in its own hermetically sealed, reusable zipper pouch.