Tie Guan Yin/Red Heart Goddess, Grade A

Code: O19A019

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Packaging Information:
Packed in 50g units / 5g SAMPLE also available

When you smell Tie Guan Yin for the first time, immediately after brewing, you won't believe that what you smell is pure tea. You find yourself on a meadow full of flowers. The truth is that you have been fortunate enough to taste Tie Guan Yin, pure loose leaf tea with no added flavours or perfume. Creation of nature.

Tie Guan Yin is a vibrant tea that wins you over and over again. You quickly fall in love with it's freshness and long-lasting fragrance. The tea is extremely smooth and easy to drink. Leaves of Tie Guan Yin are durable and allow multiple infusions. In fact, multiple infusions are essential for Tie Guan Yin leaves to fully open to their majestic size.
Tie Guan Yin is a legend among tea lovers. It is a semi-fermented tea that differs greatly from its close relative - dark Oolong. Tie Guan Yin is often referred to as ‘green oolong' thanks to vivid green colour of leaves and bright green tint of its liquor. Tie Guan Yin is less oxidized than dark oolong and therefore comprises a striking floral aroma with distinctive freshness.

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Other names:
Known under the following names: Iron Buddha, Red Heart Goddess, Iron Goddess of Mercy, Ti Kwan Yin, Wu Long Tea, Wulong Ti Guan Yin, Ti Kuan Yin, Tie Guan Yin or Tieguanyin.

Appearance:
Tie Guan Yin's leaves and liquor are vivid green. Leaves are tightly rolled into a ball shape, characteristic for Oolongs from Anxi region. When steeped, the hand-rolled dried leaves unfurl gracefully to reveal full size tea leaves of juicy green colour.

Taste & Aroma:
The intense, floral aroma of Tie Guan Yin is overwhelming. You may easily distinguish fresh flowers with sweet notes of orchid. A refreshing, mild but lasting sweet aftertaste makes Tie Guan Yin an unforgettable experience.

Origin:
Anxi, southeastern part of Fujian Province, China
Anxi is often reffered to as ‘Chinese Tea Capital". Well known for its oolong cultivars and manufacturing methods which involve loosely fisted rolling, moderate oxidation and roasting.

Harvest Period:   Spring 2009

History of the tea:
The tea is named after Guan Yin, the only female deity in the Chinese pantheon of deities. She is known as the Goddess of Mercy, believed to be the female incarnation of the many-armed compassion Buddha Avalokitesvara. Ti, meaning iron, is a reference to the iron jars that precious tea was once stored in. Legend says that the Qung emperor Kangxi (1661-1722) prayed to the goddess for the return of his health during a bout with smallpox. She answered his prayers and later appeared to him in a dream. In his dream she brought him to a place where a few tea bushes were growing on a mountainside. The emperor drank tea from the bushes and recovered from his illness. To repay the kindness, the Emperor helped the people of the region cultivate the tea bushes and prosper from it in the name of the Goddess. Kuan Yin then showed the emperor that the leaves of these tea bushes bore a marked impression. He plucked one from the bush, after which the leaf bore the impressions of both of their thumbs. These two tiny marks have always distinguished the leaves of true Tie Guan Yin bush varieties. Emperor Kangxi proclaimed Tie Guan Yin famous for all eternity in China and from that time on the Yieguanyin tea industry has thrived.