Sachet in, water on
Water at about 90 °C — a boiled kettle left to sit for a minute or two. Boiling flattens the florals.
Light-roast oolong · Anxi county, Fujian · whole-leaf pyramid sachets
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Tieguanyin (铁观音) takes its name from Guanyin, the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, and from the iron-rich soil of Anxi county in Fujian, where the cultivar was born and where its standard is still set. Anxi sits in the mountains of southern Fujian, where air off the Taiwan Strait meets high-altitude fog, and the tea carries a coastal freshness tea people call the Guanyin rhyme (音韵).
Ours is the light-fragrance style (清香), lightly oxidized and rolled into tight pellets that open slowly. The signature is its orchid fragrance — a floral aroma that occurs naturally in this cultivar — over a creamy sweetness and a clean finish that lingers. For table service it does something a black tea can’t: each steep is a different cup, so a guest who asks for more hot water gets a second tea, not a weaker one.
Rolled oolong needs a steep or two to unfurl. The first cup is the pellet waking up; the second is the tea. That is why we tell bars to leave the sachet in and top up — the leaf is built for it.
Two of the teas on Guam’s menus have no local competitor. This is one of them.
Cooler water than a black tea, and give the pellets time. Tieguanyin gets better as the leaf opens.
Water at about 90 °C — a boiled kettle left to sit for a minute or two. Boiling flattens the florals.
The pellets are still opening. Lift the sachet, taste, and keep it.
Same sachet, fresh hot water, a little longer. The second and third cups are where the orchid fragrance shows.
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