🇹🇼 Teas from Taiwan
A paradise for high-mountain oolongs, from floral Ali Shan to roasted Dong Ding.
Types grown: Green Tea (1), Black Tea (2), Oolong Tea (23).
Regions of Taiwan
All Taiwan teas
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Dong Ding
A classic Taiwanese oolong, lightly roasted to bring out warm, buttery notes with floral undertones.
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Oriental Beauty
A heavily oxidized oolong whose unique flavor comes from leafhopper-bitten leaves triggering a honey-like sweetness.
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Ali Shan
A high-mountain oolong from Ali Shan with a creamy, smooth texture and delicate mountain florals.
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Milk Oolong
Jin Xuan cultivar with a naturally creamy, almost milky sweetness and silky mouthfeel.
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Baozhong
One of the least oxidized oolongs, bridging green and oolong with ethereal floral notes.
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Li Shan
One of Taiwan's highest-grown oolongs from Pear Mountain, prized for its ethereal sweetness and mountain air character.
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Shan Lin Xi
A high-mountain Taiwanese oolong from Shan Lin Xi with a distinctive cedar-forest freshness.
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Dong Fang Mei Ren
A premium grade of Oriental Beauty, heavily oxidized from leafhopper bites, producing intense honey-muscatel complexity.
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Muzha Tie Guan Yin
Taiwan's traditional charcoal-roasted Tieguanyin from Muzha, darker and more intensely roasted than its Anxi cousin.
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Da Yu Ling
Taiwan's highest-elevation oolong from 2,500m+ - extraordinarily rare with an unmatched ethereal sweetness.
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Gui Fei Oolong
Concubine Oolong - leafhopper-bitten high-mountain tea with an intoxicating lychee-honey sweetness.
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Dong Ding Aged
Traditionally aged and re-roasted Dong Ding - decades of careful storage create profound depth and smoothness.
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Ruan Zhi
TTES #17 - the soft-stemmed cultivar behind many 'milk oolongs,' with a naturally creamy, vanilla-like sweetness.
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Dayuling Winter
Winter harvest from Taiwan's loftiest tea mountain - even rarer than spring Da Yu Ling, with concentrated peach and cream notes.
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Shanlinxi Winter
Winter-picked Shan Lin Xi - the cold-season harvest concentrates sweetness and deepens the signature cedar-forest character.
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Alishan Jin Xuan
Jin Xuan cultivar grown at Ali Shan elevation - the altitude amplifies the natural creaminess into something truly ethereal.
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Four Seasons Oolong
Si Ji Chun - Taiwan's most popular everyday oolong, harvested four times a year with a bright gardenia-like fragrance.
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Taiwan GABA Oolong
Anaerobic-processed oolong rich in gamma-aminobutyric acid - uniquely smooth with a distinctive longan sweetness.
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Fushoushan Oolong
From Taiwan’s Fushou Mountain veterans’ farm at 2,600m - among the island’s rarest and most ethereal high-mountain oolongs.
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Qilai Shan Oolong
A remote high-mountain oolong from Qilai Mountain’s pristine wilderness - wild, mineral, and intensely fresh.
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Songboling Oolong
From the famous Songboling competition area - consistently produces some of Taiwan’s most award-winning high-mountain oolongs.
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Pinglin Baozhong Aged
Traditionally aged Wenshan Baozhong - years of careful storage transform the ethereal floral into deep, honeyed complexity.
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Taiwan Shan Cha
Native Taiwanese wild tea (Camellia formosensis) - an indigenous species with an untamed, camphor-tinged forest character.
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Sun Moon Lake Ruby 18
Red Jade - Taiwan’s signature black tea cultivar (TTES #18), a cross of wild Taiwanese and Burmese tea with a distinctive minty-spice character.
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Mi Xiang Hong Cha
Honey-Scented Black Tea - leafhopper-bitten leaves create a naturally sweet, complex honey-fruit character unique to Taiwan.
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Sanxia Bi Luo Chun
Taiwan’s take on the Chinese classic - hand-rolled in Sanxia township with a uniquely sweet, less grassy character than its Chinese cousin.