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Please help identifying this tea

Greetings,

My dear sister-in-law received some lovely oolong tea from Taiwan. She was very enthusiastic about it and asked me whether I could find some more of it. Unfortunately when I spoke to her all the tea was happily gone and she could only show me the empty box. She said the dry leaves were very dark, so it must been a heavily oxidized - or heavily fired? sorry, I am not an expert in oolongs... - oolong.

Unfortunately I can not read any Chinese, so I am completely dependent on the expertise and goodwill of this highly estimated group. If any of you can identify this tea, and maybe even tell me where I could get more of it - preferably from an online source as I live in Europe - I would be very thankful.

Here are two pictures of the box:

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Thanks again, Gyorgy

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Gyorgy Sajo
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Until an expert comes along, I'd look through the Tie Quan Yins to see if you can recognize the leaf. Toci

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toci

Looks to me like it says Alishan high mountain oolong.

I think if you look that up on the web you'll find more information.

Charles

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cha bing

Yes indeed, it's Alishan gaoshan wulong, according to the hand-written label. It's unusual to find a darker, roasted Alishan - they're usually almost exclusively green (qingxiang), so it's not going to be easy finding a replacement!

Toodlepip,

Hobbes

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HobbesOxon

The bottom of the can says "Wu-tie", not "Wu-long". The tea is from a "Wutie Chayuan" or "Dark Iron Tea Garden", literally. The tea is from Alishan, or so it says, and the name of the product is "Gaoshan Wutie". A google search yields this

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Which is in Maokong, very near Taipei. Maokong has a lot of tea farms where they let you drink their stuff right there. So I guess this is a brand name of theirs -- I wonder if they roast the tea themselves. Is your sister in-law's friend in or near Taipei?

MarshalN

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MarshalN

Dear MarshalN,

Thanks a lot - I am deeply impressed that you could track down this tea for me!

No, the aquintance of my sister-of-law is not located in Taiwan. He is a Chinese doctor living in Hungary who came back with this tea from one of his recent visits in China and/or Taiwan. My brother has a working knowledge of Chinese, so my guess is that he will try to contact this company in Maokong.

Thanks again, Gyorgy

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Gyorgy Sajo

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