Re: Champagne oolong?

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Leo
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Another name for Champagne oolong is Dongfang Meiren. The real production name is Pengfeng cha (pengfeng, a Taiwan dialect for big tale). By nature it is basically not an oolong, but rather a semi-black. Various tea tree cultivars are employed dependent on the producer. That’s why some selections are smaller leaves and others are slightly larger. Even when a wulong cultivar is used, the leaves are plucked much earlier than would for real oolong production.

There is also a saying about the leaves have to be eaten by some local aphis before plucking to be a genuine Pengfeng cha. Well, that’s really pengfeng.