Zuo Ruyu Hualien Da-Ye Black 2015 - Weight: 30g

Zuo Ruyu I-Lan Golden White Tip Oolong

A truly unique tea from Taiwanese master Zuo Ruyu. A Buddhist who has over 50 years of experience in tea production and lives body and soul for tea, only because of this can such gems be created, which she grows in harmony with nature.

Sourced from the I-lan region, from a garden at 800m altitude, harvested in 2023 and will only benefit from further maturation.

What's so interesting about this tea? It's a unique cultivar that Zuo Ruyu has been working on for over 7 years in collaboration with the Taiwan Research Institute TRES. It is a combination of the Darjeeling cultivar and the Chinese Fenghuang Dan Cong, and then this unique cultivar was grown wild in the mountains of Taiwan to produce this truly unique tea.

A hard to imagine flavour combination of cultivars, but one that accurately describes what will eventually appear in your cup.

The leaf is beautifully crafted, full of fluffy tips, best captured by the photographs. The aroma of the dry leaf is really fresh, sweet, fruity.

After the pour you will smell an intense aroma of mountain peach, maybe a hint of ripe pear in the background, fresh mountain flowers, a hint of forest honey, and a constant hint of Chinese Dan Cong oolong will accompany you. It's really a mix of Darjeeling and Dancong and a very unique tea in taste.

The aromas then come through in the taste of the tea, a really bright, clean and fresh infusion full of mountain peach, fresh mountain flowers, forest honey, with mineral notes in the background as well. It is hard to compare this taste to anything else.

The first of the unique teas from the emerging Zuo Ruyu Series, which is undoubtedly one of the top teas from Taiwan. I have arranged exclusive representation for the EU market with the master, so I can fully publicize and present her teas with pleasure.

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Brewing method for 100 ml:
Gong Fu Cha - 3-4g of tea, 98C water, first pour 20s, 2-7 infusions up to 15s maximum, i.e. pour immediately. At the end, you can extend the time, it really lasts 8 infusions, according to the preparation can give more.
I don't recommend stretching the infusion time, you really need to treat this tea like Dan Cong.
I really recommend this tea for smaller volumes, 150ml maximum. Its quality is designed for this kind of brewing.