Oolong Tea Bai Ya Qi Lan Oolong High Mountain Spring Wulong

This Bai Ya Qi Lan Tea is a rare Oolong tea from Pinghe county in the south of FuJian Province,China.It is a lightly oxidized, multiple roasting process oolong tea. It is said that, sometime during the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanhe, the grandson of the current Emperor, found a tea tree in Pinghe County, Fujian. The tea tree buds were such a pale green that they almost appeared white and had the same scent as orchids. Chen Yuanhe named this tree Baiya Qilan. Its name has four characters: the first character, bai, translate into “white,” Ya means “bud,” Qi indicates “special” or “unique” and Lan is the character for “orchid.” Therefore the name translates directly as “white bud special orchid;” it is referred to as “white bud Qilan” The higher altitudes of Daqinshan mountain,Fu jian, shrouded in fog all year round, offer ideal growing conditions for the special tea cultivar.The tea adopts traditional charcoal roasting process to make the aroma more stable and the tea soup sweeter and mellow