2022 Thailand Doi Mae Salong Ruan Zhi No.17 Hong Cha (25 g)

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In the so-called Golden Triangle, just a few kilometres from the border of Laos and Myanmar, is the mountain Doi Mae Salong. This rich and beautiful mountain, with an altitude of between 1 200 and 1 800 metres, is particularly suitable for growing tea leaves and other cash crops. Temperatures on the mountain vary quite dramatically between day and night, allowing for slower growth of tea leaves, which then have a sweeter and more aromatic taste. Another advantage of the climate in this area is that the amount of cloud and mist that covers the area allows the tea leaves to absorb more moisture.

The Ruan Zhi cultivar was imported from Taiwan and is often referred to as number 17 in Thailand and is often referred to as the queen of Thai oolongs.

Our tea is, however, quite rarely processed from this cultivar as a light red tea.
The same method of production was used as is most often used in Futien, called shaking in a bamboo cylinder. This method contributes significantly to the more pronounced automatic profile.

Nose: intense, sweet and very attractive, reminiscent of a perfume, with dominant notes of fresh flowers, overripe fruit, strawberry jam, apples, cherries, meadow honey, cocoa and poppy

Taste: intense, very full, attractive, sweet with notes of fresh flowers, meadow honey, berries, strawberry jam, spices with a long sweet-fruity finish

Harvest time: spring 2022

Place: Doi Mae Salong

Country: Thailand

Weight: 25 g

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Introduction to Thai tea

Thai teas have lately been ranked among the most interesting in the world and manage comparisons with the most famous tea regions. Modern Thai tea production is linked to the initiative of the government and the Thai royal family to replace opium production with tea at the end of the last century.
After the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Kuomintang army fled to Taiwan and Burma. In the mid-1970s, those who settled in Burma were ostracized and expelled by local militias. At that time, the Thai king invited the remnants of the Kuomintang to settle in northern Thailand and protect Thailand’s borders and territory. The families were given Thai citizenship. In the 1980s and 1990s, they began working in tourism, fruit farming and tea production to generate income for ethnic minorities and replace opium and drug cultivation.
In the early 1990s, tea growers in northern Thailand received great support and inspiration from the Taiwanese and Chinese tea industries to develop high-quality oolong in Thailand, thanks to their deep connection through their shared Kuomintang history and Chinese diaspora, which resulted in Chinese settlements in Taiwan and northern Thailand.
The history of tea in Thailand goes back much further, of course.
Chinese immigration to the area began some time ago, perhaps thousands of years ago, so tea may indeed have been indigenous or cultivated here long ago. There was also a trade route from China to India through this area until at least the second century BC, perhaps even earlier.