Bao Zhong 🇹🇼

Bao Zhong 🇹🇼
Taiwanese Oolong Tea
From Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan


25g Tin
or
Zero Waste Refill (compostable bag) with discount code: REFILL

This tea is organically grown!

A beautifully clean and pure highly aromatic tea. Large openly twisted leaves, silvery buds and leaves of mossy green and brown tones with full balanced fragrant orchid aromas. Sweet baked aromas with high floral notes. The damp, paler, soft and tender spring leaves give warm sweet rounded aromas. The tea soup is pale gold, with an excellent clarity and high quality. The drinking experience is soft yet rich with a creamy mouthfeel. The tea has bright very aromatic high notes, stone fruit and floral complexities in flavour that finishes with a deep satisfying feel, building flavour and touches of pleasant astringency. 

Organically grown Jin Xuan cultivar at an elevation of 650m. Hand picked harvesting two leaves and a bud in Spring, the leaves have then undergone processing following traditional techniques by the Yen family.

Bao Zhong, sometimes also called Pouchong, means the wrapped kind, after an old process of wrapping the leaves in paper & becoming famous as a uniquely fragrant style of tea exported to New York in the early 19th C. & still a very popular tea to be enjoyed everyday across Taiwan & beyond.

During our R&D trip to Taiwan (April’25) we visited the Sun Moon Lake area to explore the most beautiful organic tea gardens of Tea master Yen & family, we were shown 3 in total, full of a clean, rich & diverse environment of flora and fauna for the tea plants to thrive in, with even tea trees of 100 years age. Their dedication and enthusiasm for organic principles and cultivation is apparent in the the high quality of their teas and is a true inspiration. Their wish is to bring out everything that is within the leaves, every nuance, every variety with a offering rich in specialities.