Tong Tong Ting Oolong Variety Premium Crafts 100% Organic - 50g

Tong Ting Ting Oolong - Premium variety 

It is immediately recognized for its specificity in that, compared to others, after the usual processing phases of these semi -oxidized tea, it undergoes a final toasting, thus acquiring an unusual aroma and flavor that make it welcome to those who prefer a tea of character, with a typical taste of toasted. The color of the infusion, amber, brings it closer to the black tea, but the healthy advantages, linked to the abundant presence of flavonoids and catechins resulting from the low level of oxidation (from 20 to 40%), remain as an essential prerogative of the Oolongs.
This tea owes its name which means "frozen peak" to Mount Dong Ding, an snow -covered top of Taiwan, where it has been cultivated and worked for centuries, after being introduced to Formosa by China in the middle of the nineteenth century. Even in Thailand he found the favorable habitat for cultivation in the high mountains (1400 meters) with a sufficiently cold, misty and humid climate. The maximum of production is at the end of the winter season. Fragrant, robust, beneficial, beneficial are some adjectives that are attended by Tong Ting. The fragrance recalls that of toasted wheat bread and is accompanied by flowering and caramelized tones, expressing a right balance between the dessert and the bitterness. The body is well structured, of rank, while presenting the typical delicacy of Oolong. The healthy properties of these tea have been confirmed by recent studies and also assumes an adjuvant effect of slimming diets, if consumption is daily and continuous.
It should be remembered that in order for antioxidants to make their own properties better, the water in which to instill the leaves for a maximum of 3 minutes, it must be hot, around 90 ° it is possible to influence it seven times, without the taste yes Altero, savoring the interesting aromatic variations in the various steps.

Preparation tips:

Indications of Thai producers on how Oolong teas are prepared:
Place the leaves in a mini -foreign (Yixing teiere from 120 to 150 ml) up to about a quarter of the volume.
Fill with hot water and pour it away immediately for the "washing" of the leaves that prepares them for infusion.
Add the hot water again and wait for about a minute (time can vary depending on the type of leaves and their size). Transfer all the tea ready to the service teapot (the leaves should never be placed to instill in this teapot).
Oolong tea can be reinfusted five times and also beyond.

Oolong tea are tea of ​​great value, with a refined flavor, with very different characteristics depending on the varieties: with light tones and vegetable hints, the least oxidized, more full -bodied and aromatic ones to the most prolonged oxidation. Some qualities are distinguished by the appreciable flowery notes or the perfumes of fruit. Oolong are known as precious health allies, considering the high tenor of antioxidants, polyphenols, mineral salts and vitamins.