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Gui Fei (Concubine)

Named after Yang Guifei, the legendary Tang dynasty beauty. Like Oriental Beauty, this tea benefits from leafhopper bites, but is less heavily oxidised. Developed in the 1990s as a way to salvage insect-bitten summer leaves, it became a sought-after tea in its own right.

Tasting Notes

honeyedfruitysweet

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Origin

Nantou, Taiwan, Taiwan

Plant

Jin Xuan or Qing Xin

Land

400–800m

Craft

Summer (leafhopper season) harvest. Medium-heavy oxidation from leafhopper bites, ball-rolled.

Brewing

Gongfu
90.0°Ctemp
5gper 100ml
15s1st steep

Add 5s each steep · 6-8 steeps

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