Cold Summit Mountain (Tung Ting Shan)
Location: Nantou, Taiwan
Facts: Highest Peak at 800 meters
Tea Grown at: Tung Ting Peak
Humid and foggy, relatively tropical weather
History:
Founded in the turn of the century
and discovered to be very suitable for tea growth when plants were
brought back from the mainland China to grow in Taiwan. Hilly, steep,
and surrounded by bamboo groves and natural lakes, Tung Ting or Cold
Summit Mountain was so called because it was considered cold and
slippery for the farmers to ascend to harvest the teas without shoes.
One of the most well known tea mountains in Taiwan today, Tung Ting
honors Magistrate Lin Feng Chi, the scholar from the mid 1850s who gave
the gift of tea to his villagers who supported his endeavors for a
government post. .
Featured Teas
Tung Ting , Royal Courtesan
Taste Notes:
Exceptional fragrance and greener oxidation level than most Oolongs.
Vegetal and slightly astringent aftertaste ("gan")
Royal Courtesan (Gui Fei Oolong)
Oxidized on the bush by tiny green
leaf hoppers, Royal Courtesan is a summer harvest Tung Ting Oolong that
is naturally organic. It is characterized by a unique natural perfume
that is at both ntoxicating and lingering.
Featured Grower(s)
Mrs. Su
Her story>>
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