Oolong Teas from Zen Tara Tea

Bao Zhong Wen Shan Mountain Oolong Tea
A classic Taiwan oolong tea (also known as Pouchong), lightly oxidized, green with a light floral note.

Chin Shin Oolong
One of the world's most popular oolongs. A well rounded green oolong flavor with a slightly floral aroma.

Dong Ding (or Tung Ting) Oolong
A premium oolong harvested to be the most flavorful and naturally fragrant of the green oolongs.

GABA (or Gabaron)Oolong
A special processing technique developed in Japan in 1987 concentrates healthy components of the tea leaf.

Milk Oolong
A unique oolong whose special production methods create a unique natural sweetness in the tea.

Osmanthus Flower Oolong
Famous Golden Goddess of Mercy oolong tea from Fujian, China blended with osmanthus blossoms.

Tie Guan Yin Jade Oolong
Maybe the most well known of all classic oolong teas, a special treat to be savored.

Ume Blossom (Plum Blossom) Oolong
The earliest blossoms to appear as winter snow melts into spring. Celebrate "Ume Matsuri" with this special tea.

Wuyi Oolong
A popular oolong, fully ozidized with a deeper copper color when brewed and a roasted mellow flavor.

tea farm in northern Thailand

Last year, on a tea sourcing trip to China that included an added excursion to Thailand we spent a day getting to know the owners of a tea garden in northern Thailand, one of a group of tea estates in a relatively unknown tea growing area encouraged by the Thai royal family. Recently, a tea traveler commented on the quality of these Thai oolong teas:

"Our trip back home to Thailand had little to do with tea. Thai oolong tea, however, is now being sold just about everywhere one looks. I have read several articles about this tea and how it is competing with the best from Taiwan and Fujian. The tea was planted about twenty years or so ago by members of the Fifth Kuomintang Army that moved out of Yunnan when the communists took over China in 1949. I remember visiting them at MaeSaLong a long, long time ago when the road to their mountain top hideout was first opened. I found the people to be less than friendly and the tea to be terrible. It was reported that these people were heavily into opium crops and the Thai army looked the other way. The King of Thailand did some crop swapping and encouraged them to plant tea. That tea is now coming on the market in a big way and some experts compare it favorably with oolong tea elsewhere.

I tried to get Sunee to buy some for me to taste but it was expensive, very expensive. I did talk my sister-in-law out of about 50 grams to try later on when I get the time."

We are fortunate enough to be able to be one of the first tea shops to arrange to have some of these wonderful Thai oolong teas available in the United States - and they are not very expensive. In addition, we have a range of famous oolong teas from their historic locations in China and Taiwan.

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