This tasting set contains 4 different Taiwanese oolongs. You get 25g each of Fu Shou Shan, Ali Shan, Li Shan, and Da Yu Ling.

Our Oriental Beauty (东方美人 Dong Fang Mei Ren) is completely hand picked & hand processed in Hsinchu county, Taiwan. Oriental Beauty is grown at lower elevations of 300-500m and picked in the Summer. The tea is grown organically, as the farmers encourage tiny insects known as tea jassids, to bite the young tea leaves. The plant's reaction to the insect bites results in a distinctively sweet honey flavor with the fragrance of tropical fruit & flowers. Only the young bud & two leaves are picked, and allowed to heavily oxidise whilst withering, before repeated wok-frying by hand. Over 30 different batches of Oriental Beauty were sampled before selecting this tea for your consideration.

This Lishan Tie Guan Yin (梨山鐵觀音) has pungent aromas of ripe fruits & sandalwood that hits the back of the nose. Produced at Lishan Diao Qiao Tou tea farm (梨山吊桥头茶区) in 2005 winter, it is slightly insect-bitten, and yields an orange liquor that tastes of roasted almond, dried lychee and citrus fruits. Withered for a longer time than usual, then roasted according to the Min Nan style (閩南風格), using lower temperature and multiple roasts, this tea was roasted 9 times over charcoal. Relative to other Taiwan oolongs, it is heavily oxidized and heavily roasted. The tight dark balls make a satisfying iron "ping" noise when dropped.