Taiwan Wuyi teas?

[caligatia]

It's time for more questions caused by samples from Victoria! This tea is a Taiwan Wuyi. According to the seller, Floating Leaves Tea, a Wuyi varietal was taken to Taiwan a couple of centuries ago. It has the same level of roasting as the other (Chinese) Wuyi Victoria sent, but has a very distinct flavor that makes me think of toasted grain and nuts. It's quite delicious.

My question is: are there a lot of Taiwan Wuyi teas or is this a rarity? I like it and want to get more, but if there are others in the same "genre" I'd like to try those as well.

Thanks!

[gingkoseto]

It's time for more questions caused by samples from Victoria! This tea is a Taiwan Wuyi. According to the seller, Floating Leaves Tea, a Wuyi varietal was taken to Taiwan a couple of centuries ago. It has the same level of roasting as the other (Chinese) Wuyi Victoria sent, but has a very distinct flavor that makes me think of toasted grain and nuts. It's quite delicious.

My question is: are there a lot of Taiwan Wuyi teas or is this a rarity? I like it and want to get more, but if there are others in the same "genre" I'd like to try those as well.

Thanks!

The name is confusing, if not mis-leading...
Wuyi is originating center of most oolong varieties (if not all). All Taiwan oolong varieties were offspring from oolong varieties of Fu Jian (home province of Wu Yi), and mostly from Wu Yi. So the name doesn't say how it is different from other Taiwan oolong. I wonder if they try to use the name to emphasize the tea is traditional roast, instead of "green" roast.

[skywalker]

Most of the Taiwanese ancesters came from Fu Ken province. Wuyi is located in Fu Ken, so they brought these teas from Wuyi about 200 years ago. What I say is Taiwanese perserves many ancient tea variants from Fu Ken, but we don't emphasize these tea as Wuyi, as you know, there are many variants from Wuyi. After many hunderd years of development, Taiwan tea has his special tea culture, so the Wuyi has become a history. One of the tea tree from Wuyi is called "Ching shin", very popular and normal in Taiwan oolong tea, but is rare in Fu Ken now.

[tenuki]

See previous discussions on this tea:

http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... c&start=46

and here:

http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... &start=240


Enjoy.

[caligatia]

Thanks for all the info, guys. I'm still drinking infusions of it. Yummy.

[Victoria]

Heh, Tenuki beat me to it, I just remembered Chip as well as wyardley (and others posting their notes) had written reviews of this one on the Oolong Box Pass thread, it was popular item and got almost as much press as the 2yr old Boazhong!

[Trioxin]

I loved that tea as well. I made sure to purchased 4oz along with the farmers choice, and the oriental beauty. I've become quite fond of floating leaves tea as of late.

[Chip]

The Taiwan Wuyi was certainly a fascinating oolong. There is a lot of potential in this realm of Taiwan oolong.

[TIM]

Most of the Taiwanese ancesters came from Fu Ken province. Wuyi is located in Fu Ken, so they brought these teas from Wuyi about 200 years ago. What I say is Taiwanese perserves many ancient tea variants from Fu Ken, but we don't emphasize these tea as Wuyi, as you know, there are many variants from Wuyi. After many hunderd years of development, Taiwan tea has his special tea culture, so the Wuyi has become a history. One of the tea tree from Wuyi is called "Ching shin", very popular and normal in Taiwan oolong tea, but is rare in Fu Ken now.

The other stories of Taiwanese tea are from Min-nan (old Anxi). Wuyi (Northern) and Min-nan (Southern) are all in Fu Ken or Fujian, Xiamen which is about the size of Taiwan. Most of now-a-days Taiwanese tea are consider Min-nan tea, even the native Taiwanese language is refer to Min-nan dialect.

I was lucky enough to have found the roots for this cultivar:
http://chadao.blogspot.com/2006/03/anxi ... -thsu.html

But its very confusing to state a Taiwanese tea as a Wuyi yancha, which grow from soil.... Almost like saying a Merlot from Napa is the same as a Bordeaux Merlot?

[Salsero]

I was lucky enough to have found the roots for this cultivar:
http://chadao.blogspot.com/2006/03/anxi ... -thsu.html?

Wow, Tim, that reference is a great bit of internet tea history and a really fine discussion of Tie Guan Yin! Thanks for posting it.