Aged Tieluohan Oolong Rock Tea from 1980

Description

Aged Tieluohan Oolong Tea from 1980. Premium quality & dry stored in Hong Kong.

This rare Tieluohan has a familiar Wuyi Rock Tea taste coupled with complex aging notes. It grows on the rocky cliffs of the famous mountains, where the tea plants draw minerals from the soil and give the leaves their unique minerality.

• Tea Region: Wuyi Mountains
• Year: 1980
• Caffeine Level: Low to Medium Caffeine
• Time of Day to Drink: Mornings and Mid Afternoons
• Hand-Picked Tea: Yes
• Tea Quality: Gourmet Tea
• Flavor: Intense and Medicinal, but also Sweet
• Single Origin Tea: Yes
• Tea Steep Method: 3-4 grams steeped for 30-60 seconds
• Attributes: Organic. Single Origin. Aged.

Young Tieluohan Oolong Tea has strong mineral flavors. It’s medicinal. Sharp. Astringent. During the aging process, many of those flavors transform. The mineral notes lose their sharpness and become more rounded. The tea tastes sweeter and less medicinal. It develops notes of dried fruits and honey, with an unmistakable sweetness.

Aged Tieluohan tea also has a silky, creamy mouthfeel.

The longer the aging process, the more complex those flavors become.

Storage conditions are key to ensuring an optimal aging process. The tea needs room to breathe and mature. Our Aged Tieluohan was dry stored in Hong Kong soon after production. The conditions were carefully monitored over the years, and the result is a mature Tieluohan that has had over four decades to round off those sharper, medicinal flavors while maintaining some classic Wuyi flavors.