Tea of Today: Fancy Black Tea (Fancy Schwarztee mit natürlichem Honingaroma)

How's the weather in the city you live? In Taiwan, we have rained every day since last week that would be good as in southern Taiwan and many parts of Taiwan need water urgently.

The weather now does not like the normal May we used to have, the temperature is low, just like autumn. In such weather and temperature, it will be good for having "Fancy Black Tea" (Fancy Schwarztee mit natürlichem Honingaroma). The nature honey aroma and mild tea liquid make the rich flavor in the mouth stronger and warm up the body.

What is "Fancy Black Tea"?

The Fancy Black Tea is one of the local specialties, renowned for its honey-scented aroma. The Fancy Black Tea and the Oriental Beauty Tea have one thing in common, though: that is, both of them go through a "spitting-on process" by Jacobiasca Formosana, the bug once thought harmful and yet found to trigger this transformation in the fresh leaves exposed to high temperature that accompanies the tea-making process. This biting by the bug brings about a unique, honey-like aroma. This Jacobiasca Formosana has its natural habitat only in a pollution-free environment and is not adaptable to frigid climate, all the more reason why this Fancy Black Tea is superb and to be valued.

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Spring Teas will be launched soon.

Dear Customers,

Due to the spring teas will come up a few weeks late, please check our website (www.formosa-teahouse.com) from time to time as we will have the new teas launched there. Indeed the teas from lower altitude have been launched on the market as you can see, however, we are looking forward the teas from the certain and the higher altitute areas, especially High Mountain Oolong Tea, and these teas are still on the ground in the tea plantations now. Thank you for your patience and please contact us if any query.

Love & Peace,
Formosa T-house

About Spring High Mountain Oolong Tea 2011

Last month was the coldest March in the past 41 years in Taiwan. Spring comes late, so that the buds of tea trees coming out late. Here we are still waiting for the spring thunder which means spring comes. The tea plantations located at lower altitudes have already some teas harvested. On average, this year, the spring teas come out about 2 to 3 weeks late.

Our High Mountain Oolong Teas, on the tea plantations at high altitude will be starting the harvest until end of April to May. Due to climate change, the agriculture products are affected more or less in different ways. For teas, the harvest probably will be smaller in volume than usual.

Therefore, we apologize that we are NOT opening the “pre-order” to our individual customers at the moment for our upcoming High Mountain Oolong Teas, because our standpoints are selecting and evaluating the good teas for our customers. Good teas doesn't need to be rushed. We understand that many of you are waiting for the spring teas, however, quality is more important than quantity.

Little by little, we are going to launch the 2011 spring Oolong teas, black teas and Tieguanyin teas etc. at the right time on our official website, Blog and Facebook. If any query, you are welcome to contact us via email. Thank you for your understanding!