On Aug 19, 8:24 pm, MarshalN > wrote:
> On Aug 19, 5:30 am, "Gyorgy Sajo" > wrote:
>
>
>
> > Greetings,
>
> > My dear sister-in-law received some lovely oolong tea from Taiwan. She was
> > very enthusiastic about it and asked me whether I could find some more of
> > it. Unfortunately when I spoke to her all the tea was happily gone and she
> > could only show me the empty box. She said the dry leaves were very dark, so
> > it must been a heavily oxidized - or heavily fired? sorry, I am not an
> > expert in oolongs... - oolong.
>
> > Unfortunately I can not read any Chinese, so I am completely dependent on
> > the expertise and goodwill of this highly estimated group. If any of you can
> > identify this tea, and maybe even tell me where I could get more of it -
> > preferably from an online source as I live in Europe - I would be very
> > thankful.
>
> > Here are two pictures of the box:
>
> >http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...pghttp://i29.p...
>
> > Thanks again,
> > Gyorgy
>
> They also have a page for the prices -- the third link on the
> navigation bar up top
>
> http://www.o-tea.enew88.net/si003page.htm
>
> Your Gaoshan Wutie costs 1600 NTD, which is about 50 USD.
>
> MarshalNhttp://www.xanga.com/MarshalN

Reading that web page some more.... it seems like Wutie is some sort
of high oxidation, high roast oolong, basically.

They also have a strange tea.... uses microwave to kill-green and
roast. I don't know what that's going to taste like...

MarshalN
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