Eastern Beauty Oolong Tea Oranges (Jesse’s Tea Orange Series)

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Eastern Beauty Oolong Tea Oranges (Jesse’s Tea Orange Series) Note: Seeing “Out of Stock”? They might just not be available in your market yet! Check the Launch Month Living Blog to see the status for each of our warehouses. What is a Tea Orange? Tea oranges, known as “Xiao Qing Gan” in Chinese, are tea leaves packed inside a special type of fragrant mandarin orange grown specifically for its aromatic peel. The inside flesh of the fruit is scooped out, the peel is dried, and then filled with loose leaf tea. The result is a fantastic citrus scent during brewing, and a smooth, natural orange note in the tea. The tea oranges in this series are the end result of over a year’s worth of tea scouting and sourcing, where I went in person to the orange fields and the tea mountains to find the best ingredients, put them together, and develop a complete line of amazing flavors, including both classics and innovative unique tastes. What’s in the Box? Each box contains ten tea oranges (between 100-120g total), filled with Eastern Beauty Oolong tea from Fujian province. Don't knock it till you've tried it! Eastern Beauty Oolong gets its distinct sweet-honey flavor from bug bites! Locals discovered that the tea leaves bitten by the Tea Jassid, an insect, created a special honey flavor in the tea leaves after they were plucked and processed as oolong tea. The flavor is the result of terpenes released by the leaf in self-defense. As a result, the "Eastern Beauty" was born - a bug-bitten oolong with notes of honey, cinnamon, and bursting with fresh fragrance. Bright yellow-orange, the tea has surprising depth and sweetness. It's a real treat for oolong lovers! Jesse Says: At first, I thought that Eastern Beauty tea oranges may seem like a contradiction, since Eastern Beauty is known for its delicate floral “Mi Xiang” honey-scent. Wouldn’t that conflict with the orange scent? But during testing, I repeatedly found myself reaching for this tea orange, hoping to try it again. While the orange scent definitely alters the honey-scent, I found I really liked how it smelled, and the flavor and mouthfeel that came out of these was awesome. Being a more expensive tea, however, the 10-pack boxes will have a more premium price tag than the others. But what’s the point of making your own line of tea oranges is you can’t be a bit excessive now and then? What is Oolong Tea? Oolong teas are partially-oxidized teas, almost like a mix between a green and a black tea. Oolongs are picked and then treated in a long, labor-intensive process that includes cultivating, harvesting, withering, oxidizing, fixing (or sha qing – “killing the green”), rolling and drying, and sometimes roasting. The end result is a tea with a fantastic fragrance, almost like a green tea, but with a richer and more complex flavor than most green teas. Oolong tea oranges are very unusual and we may be the first to make a tea orange with this tea! I hope you enjoy it! Not sure which flavors you like? Try the 5-orange sampler! Why Make Our Own Tea Oranges? While tea oranges are not difficult to find in China, they are usually filled with lower quality tea, with most vendors hoping the interesting shape will be enough to attract customers. Eventually, we decided that if we wanted higher quality tea oranges, especially those that would pass EU export standards for pesticides, we needed to start from scratch. We sourced the oranges, sourced the teas, put the tea in the oranges, and made our own line of products that simply can’t be found anywhere else! Our Orange Guy: Jie Ge Jie Ge is a third-gen tea orange farmer from Xinhui, China, the best location in all of China to grow tea oranges, thanks to its unique geographical position in a rich flood plain and their special varietal of orange. His family has been growing and aging oranges for decades. The orange varietal he grows has 27 volatile scent compounds contained in the dried peel, compared to normal oranges which have under 10. Jie Ge’s oranges come from the core area of Meijang and are grown fully organic, using only organic fertilizer he makes himself by fermenting ingredients like peanut shells, soybean powder, fish and fish bones, seashells and seaweed, amongst other ingredients. Our Tea Lady: Tian Zong Tian Zong has been in tea tasting and sourcing for over twenty years, and has spent much time in the last decade helping local farmers grow to organic and EU export standards, as a way of increasing incomes for farmers and helping them reach overseas markets. Tian Zong connected us directly to local farmers, and serves as our quality-control specialist for making sure all teas fit the highest standards of pesticide, heavy metals, and other health-related topics. She also ensures the farmers get the proper export papers needed. In addition, Tian Zong is also a certified tea-tasting expert, as granted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security . Her insight on which types of teas might be a good fit for the Tea