Buddha Palm heavy roast oolong in its vacuum-sealed Global Tea Hut packet

Brewed golden amber oolong tea liquor in a white porcelain cup on a clay coaster, seen from above

Buddha Palm

Name: Buddha Palm
Brand: Master Lü Lizhen
SKU: Heavy Roast
Price: 14.0 USD
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This Buddha Palm tea is a beautiful oolong from Taoyuan County in Taiwan. It is created by Master Lu Li Zhen. Everything about this tea speaks to heritage, mastery and refinement. It comes from a biodiverse and healthy, clean farm Master Lu started himself. Roasting skills, like farming and processing techniques, were handed down generationally at tea shops. Over time, they became refined secrets that brought the unfinished teas to perfection. Nowadays, there are very few tea shops left that do their own roasting. Some may roast a tea or two for fun or as a specialty item, but there aren’t many that roast all their teas the way Master Lu Li Zhen does. Buddha Palm was carefully roasted over days using Master Lu’s own secret methods. Growing the tea himself also allows him to control the environment and processing.

Master Lu

Lu Li Zhen (呂禮臻) was born in 1952 in Xin Bei, in the very north of Taiwan. His uncle owned a tea shop in Ban Chiao, and for more than thirty years Master Lu has roasted and sold tea in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Europe, especially Germany, where he often travels to lecture. He roasts every oolong he sells, keeping alive the old tradition in which farmers made maocha, or unfinished tea, and tea shops finished it by roasting. Very few shops still work this way, and Master Lu does it with decades of skill and several competition wins. He also tends his own clean, biodiverse farm in Taoyuan, and in the puerh world he helped revive the industry in the early 1990s.

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