Field notes from our journey to find exceptional tea.
Tea Hunting Journey
The secret to delicious tea: compared to traditional chemical fertilizers, nourishing tea plants with soybean meal elevates the aroma, body, and lingering finish by leaps and bounds while significantly reducing bitterness and astringency.
Young-bush tea comes from newly planted, young tea trees. These young bushes absorb nutrients even more efficiently, yielding quality that often surpasses older tea trees.
Tender-leaf plucking has both pros and cons. The pros are a rich, robust flavor profile, layered aromas, and a wonderful fresh tea character; the disadvantage is that it makes processing considerably more challenging.
Fertilization isn’t just about the initial soybean meal; high-quality topdressing during the growing season is equally important. This is the key element that elevates a solid 80-point premium tea into a mind-blowing 90-point masterpiece.
The absolute best tea leaves are not only harvested on sunny days but specifically during a stretch of “consecutive sunny days” to take the quality to the next level.
A “must-have” facility for any high-quality tea plantation. In high-mountain tea regions prone to rainfall shortages, tea plantations without an irrigation system have a very low chance of producing exceptional tea.
Without a high-quality source and stable sales channels, anyone telling you that “selling tea is hard to make a profit”…
Even among high mountain teas, why do some boast intoxicating aromas while others taste bitter and astringent?
Discover how fertilizer types, application amounts, and methods shape the aroma and texture of tea ~
Taiwan has countless stunning tea plantations. Here are the top four picked by our store manager.