History of Oolong Tea

Tea with nickname "champagne of teas" is the whole tea leaves undergo a semi-oxidation. The existence of this tea between green tea and black tea, with complex aromas and flavors. Nutrients and natural healing elements of green tea awake in it, but without the aroma of raw leaves.


The legend begins oolong tea from Wu Liang figure, a tea farmer who lived at the time of the Ming Dynasty, around 1400. One day, Wu Liang out to pluck the tea, as she always did on a daily basis at the time the tea picking season arrives.

When the tea leaves collected enough, his eyes saw a deer drinking in the middle of the river bank. He then stopped picking tea, kill the poor beast, then took that catch to the house to meet his need for meat during the week. As a result, he was oblivious to the tea excerpt earlier results.

A week later, he found the tea leaves results excerpt has undergone oxidation and change color to black. Although initially hesitant to process Wu Liang, fearing the tea may not have been great, but ultimately it was still processing the tea leaves with its traditional equipment.

He dries the tea leaves like green tea while drying. Subsequently, he made a cup of tea using the leaves. Once drunk, Wu Liang was surprised! because the flavor is different from green tea usually, but still delicious. He loved it!

The tea story was later expanded to surrounding neighbors and friends, so finally he gave the name "Tea Wu Liang". Because of the language barrier, the tea name later changed to "Oolong Tea".

How to make oolong Tea

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