Jin Xuan Milk Oolong

Description

Origin: Fujian, China
Varietal: Tie Guan Yin
Altitude: 1100m

Harvest: Spring
Picking: Stem removed

Know your tea: This Spring harvest Jin Xuan tea comes from a Taiwanese cultivar but is grown on Tai Hua Mountain in Anxi county of Fujian.  This Taiwanese Jin Xuan varietal Oolong grows at an altitude of 1100 meters (at par with nearby Ali Shan), and is expertly hand-picked and processed in the traditional method.  Jin Xuan naturally has a creamy flavor profile and mouthfeel and a trademark butteriness to it that can be attributed to naturally occurring lactones.

Ingredients: Jin Xuan Milk Oolong

Tasting Notes: Dulce De Leche, buttery, malted white chocolate

Preparation

We encourage you to experiment with the amount of leaves, amount and temperature of water, and infusion times to reach your preferred strength of tea,  but here's a suggestion for this particular tea: 

Pro Tip: Rinse your tea before the first infusion, to 'awaken' the leaves. You can do this by just submerging the leaves in warm water at the prescribed temperature for each particular tea, and then discarding that water. This will also preheat the vessel and prevent the water temperature from drastically falling during the infusion. 

Most reinfusions require the same or higher temperatures than the first infusion because the leaves will already be moist, but the time for each reinfusion will first reduce till a certain number of reinfusions, and then it will need to be increased till you've maxed out the potential of the leaves.

Yield: At least 25 x 150ml cups/pots