Formosa Oolong Silver Tips

High Mountain Oolong (gao-shan wu-lung cha) is perhaps the greatest and most famous of all Oolong teas.

Grown, as the name indicates, at high altitude, the leaves flush slowly on the plant.  This concentrates the flavours and allows great richness and subtlety to develop in the leaf.

Oolong, or Wu-long, tea, is partly fermented.  It is therefore half-way between green and black tea.  It has a smooth, refined, rounded and satisfying taste between peach and chestnut.  It also has greatly-prized and remarkable health properties – see the site for more details.

Taiwan, or Formosa, is renowned as the home of the finest Oolongs in the world.  In the stratosphere of tea quality sits High Mountain Oolong, and the best grade of High Mountain is what the tea trade calls Toppest, also known as Silver Tip, after the beautiful colour of the leaf.

To brew, use one teaspoon per person in a warmed pot or Mug Infuser.  Add boiling water and brew for 3 mins.  Strain and serve without milk.

If you love Formosa High Mountain Silver Tip Oolong  then you may very well also enjoy Gopaldhara Oolong from Darjeeling.