• Vietnamese tea pickers harvesting teas. Women dressed wearing traditional clothing with a basket for teas.
  • Vietnamese tea picker climbing a tree in a tea forest.
  • Vietnamese tea picker carefully harvesting the best teas for processing.
  • iloose vietnamese oolong tea on a tray with women vietnamese pickers in the background
  • Lac Hong Oolong tea-making setup with oolong tea leaves, honey, orange, and teapot on a wooden board.
  • Tea cup with brewed Vietnamese oolong tea on a white background
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Lạc Hồng Oolong Loose Tea

Lạc Hồng Oolong Loose Tea

$51.00 USD
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Lac Hong Oolong tea, aka Eastern oolong, is the Vietnamese twin to Oriental Beauty. Like traditional Taiwanese processing, this tea is produced in the Hoàng Liên Sơn mountain range. With secondary and tertiary notes of rose, grape, pineapple and muscat grape this tea is highly aromatic and naturally. Eastern oolong tea, known for being "bug-bitten tea." It's rich and distinctive flavor profile is attributed to the tea cricket. The tea cricket bites the tea plant. The natural defense mechanism of the plant produces a hormone which makes the tea naturally sweet. From this is a naturally sweet oolong.

Caffeine Level Moderate-An 8-ounce (230-ml) cup of oolong tea contains 35-50 mg of caffeine

Tea Origin Vietnam U.S. 

How to prepare Lac Hong Oolong Loose Leaf Tea

  • 4 grams of tea for 8oz (240 ml) of fresh water
  • Bring fresh water to 185-200 degrees F
  • Steep for 4 minutes
  • Good for 2 - 3 infusions. With each infusion, the flavor profile changes and you    can experience secondary and tertiary notes

Pairing Recommendations

  • Lobster Crab
  • Dim sum
  • Pasta dishes, sweet corn
  • Biscuits, scones, shortbread fruit tarts
  • Mangos, apples, pears, peaches

 

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