Oolong · Anxi, China
Tieguanyin
Moderate caffeine
A rolled oolong with floral aromatics, creamy texture, and a slowly opening leaf.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 90 °C · 194 °F
- Leaf
- 5 g
- Water
- 220 ml
- First steep
- 0:45
- Each next steep
- +0:20
- Steeps
- 7
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Brew guide
Give the leaf room to unfurl and add time across later infusions.
Aroma notes
orchid · cream · fresh stem
Tasting notes
floral top note · buttery middle · clean green finish
Harvest
April–May · October–November
Making
Planting 
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Firing
Origin
Anxi, Fujian · China
On Anxi's granite hills, altitude stretches the season. The rolled leaf packs an orchid scent and releases it steep after steep.
Lore
Named for the Iron Goddess of Mercy, whose legend rewards a poor farmer's care of her temple with a single shoot. Anxi has rolled its oolong into jade pearls since the Qing dynasty.
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