Place: Sun Moon Lake, Nantou, Taiwan

Cultivar: Ruby 18

 Crop: 2023

Description

The Premier tea is made with the Ruby 18  cultivar and it is processed with the traditional craft methods of an oolong. This is a tea with lightly twisted leaves, highly oxidized, half-moon rolling, and lightly baked. Its rich, malty, sweet, fruity, fragrant aroma, and beautiful red color make it one of the premier oolong teas of Taiwan. 

Background Story

In 1925 Burmese Assam varietal bushes were introduced and planted in the Sun Moon Lake (Ri Yue Tan) area. Due to Sun Moon Lake’s ideal terroir the Assamica tea trees grew very well. In 1999 after several years of searching for an ideal cultivar for a new tea the Taiwanese Tea Research Extension Station released Ruby 18 (Hongyu 18), which is a hybrid of the Taiwanese indigenous tea bushes and the Assamica tea bushes imported by the Japanese.  

Brewing Instructions

Ideal infusion: 1 tea sachet, 8oz of water, 195°F, 2-3 minutes. You may do multiple infusions to your taste.

Chilled Infusion: Use the ideal infusion instructions and infuse multiple times, to your taste.  Let your tea cool down and place it in a glass jar with a lid to chill in the fridge. Enjoy a few hours later.

Cold Brew: Place 1 tea sachet in a 12oz-16oz jar of cold water with a lid and let it cold brew in the fridge for 12-15 hours. Feel free to let it brew longer.  *The strength of the cold brew tea will vary on the volume of water you use and the time you let it brew. 

Ingredients: Oolong tea

Nt Wt: 8 sachets (20g)