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

Transcendence

Name: Transcendence
Brand: Master Lü Lizhen
SKU: P-T-T-1441-S
Price: 13.0 USD
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Transcendence is a tea that has been years in the making and one of the best Taiwanese oolong teas we have ever tried. Master Lu Li Zhen held a long-standing dream to make a traditional Tieguanyin, but could not find suitable raw material. He worked to plant tieguanyin varietals in Alishan and waited for the trees to grow to a suitable age for processing. Master Lu is an expert at roasting and has been doing so for decades. He roasted this tea over five days. Transcendence offers an exquisite liquor that is complex, balanced, open and deep. It projects a bouquet of flavors and a Qi that is uplifting and extends beyond the body. This is an excellent tea for drinking and also perfect for aging.

The Farmer

Master Lu 呂禮臻

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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