High Mountain Tea? Is it true that the higher the altitude the better, myth busting.
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Updated on 2025/05/07
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Alpine tea? High tea? Is it the same tea?
(Co-edited by Tea Knowledge Team)
For our tea knowledge team, the easiest way to identify high mountain tea is to look at the altitude at which the tea trees are planted, and tea trees planted at an altitude of more than 1,000 metres above sea level can be called high mountain tea.
If you look at the degree of fermentation and appearance, the partially fermented teas that are more fermented than the packet-type teas and kneaded into balls can be categorised as clear-flavoured oolong teas, which are smooth and sweet to drink, and in particular, it is said that each mountain has its own mountain air;
However, going back to the information provided by the Tea Conversion Centre, the most accurate way to distinguish between the two is by altitude.
What is high tea? It is a tea style that we often hear about but do not know the difference between it and high mountain tea. We cannot find the official explanation, so we have summarised three ways to share with you, which are summarised by high mountain tea growers, teahouse bosses, and online information.
Teaknowledge's explanations, interviews with farmers, tea houses, and reference answers from internet searches were collated into three types of answers.
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Because we need to know.Taiwan's Top Ten Contemporary TeasThis is a story about my past experience in a tea shop. When I sat down at the Centennial Tea House, the shopkeeper started to introduce me to their signature tea...
Shopkeeper: This is some of Taiwan's high mountain tea, the higher the altitude, the higher the price, but also the sweetness, the mountain air!
I asked, "Is the quality better at higher altitudes?"
Of course, the higher the level, the better.
Since then, buying tea has been deeply embedded in the concept of business constructs:"TheThe higher the altitude, the rarer it is.The following is a list of some of the most popular programmes in the world.It is a deliberately created business value.
Geographically speaking, a high mountain is1000 metres.
Is high altitude really good? High altitude is a myth in the development of Taiwan's tea industry.
- Alpine = 1000 metres as clearly defined.
- High tea = commercial term.
- High tea = business term.
- camellia = Shanzhong tea, which officially refers to a special variety in Taiwan.
Every time a friend asks if they want to buy it.Alishan, mountain range in TaiwanI have been drinking tea from the Suginashi, Lishan and Dayuling areas, but I am always confused about what I am drinking when I buy it, even the last straw.Label of OriginIt has not been well promoted in Taiwan.
Consumers are always clamouring to drink 600 metres, 800 metres, 1,200 metres, 1,800 metres, 2,000 metres height, like the extreme use of altitude to represent the taste of good and bad words, inevitably, always with the wallet pocket money is not good, accidentally to the merchants to induce the more you drink, the more expensive, so theAltitude of the mountainsIt seems to have become a synonym for quality, and the long-standing commercial jargon of tea houses and tea merchants has created a potential problem in the contemporary market.
Q. How high does it have to be to be called High Mountain Tea?
This is another interesting story. When the author visited a tea mountain, he arrived at the traditional tea area in Nantou, Nantou, where the famous Pine Cypress Evergreen Tea is produced.four seasons, andpeyote (Lophophora williamsii)The local production of refined tea varieties such as this is so to speak:
- Farmer: This is high mountain tea, and the aroma is amazing. (350m)
Otherwise, if you look at the tallest tea on our side of the road, and then go up this side of the road and point to the road that is Deer Valley, you will see the Farmers' Association and the Co-operative Society:
- Farmers' Association: Of course, this is Frozen Top Oolong Tea, which is a real high mountain tea. (800m)
When I arrived at Alishan, I felt like I was surrounded by clouds and mist, and I felt like I was in the middle of the mountain.orange day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva), andGreen Heart OolongThe master of the tea factory next to the tea plantation said:
- Master: This is where the high mountain tea is, and you don't even know it because you're a geography student. (1000m)
With this doubt in mind, I went out of the field again and arrived at the Suginashi River. When I stopped for a half day, the local people pointed out the way up the hill, saying that further up the hill was the "Zodiac Bend":
- Merchant: That side is all high mountain tea with fir aroma. (1600m)
I took a different road, crossed over Wulingqian, and stopped at a B&B area in the Hohuan mountain system, where I added a jacket:
- B&B: Our side of the high cold tea is very good, the frosty coolness is very sweet and refreshing. (1800m)
Since they are all high mountain teas, is there any difference between them and their origins? I was told by a substitute at the service office of the Ilsan Hotel:
- The service man: Of course there is a difference, here is a high mountain with three major farms! This is not a high mountain which is a high mountain, even cabbage is produced in high mountains, have not heard of snow oolong understand. (2000m)
After descending the mountain, I accidentally ran into an elderly middle-aged tea vendor in the plains of the Huadong Rift Valley in Luno, Taitung:
- (200m): The best selling tea is the high mountain tea. 30 years ago, Taitung was called the back of Taiwan, and the back of the mountain tea was also sold. (200m)
Tea area altitude reference map, but the altitude does not mean that the quality is necessarily high, but in order to sell well will be called high mountain tea sales.
High Mountain Tea is the high ground of tea tree species in terms of "any" commercial value. High Mountain Tea is a mainstream trade name that has not been clearly defined, and the emergence of this term is mostly due to the fact that tea gardens have been planted higher and higher since the 1980's. The term "High Mountain Tea" has been used to describe a variety of tea plantations that have been planted higher and higher than the traditional tea plantations.Taitung LunoIt was only when the Lugu Frozen Peak gradually lost its advantage as a mountain tea farm that the term "high mountain tea" began to emerge. It is a differentiation from flatland tea, and is different from the traditional practice of the previous generations.Iced Oolong TeaIn the representative book "The World of Oolong Tea", the phenomenon of green tea is referred to as the use of lightly fermented, non-roasted methods to express the unique aroma of the high mountains, and this type of hemispherical, lightly fermented green tea is the most common product referred to as high mountain tea.
"Is it the raw material of the tea or the good taste of the craftsmanship that you are buying? How much of the promised green leaves with red edges, matured leaves with open buds, and longan charcoal baking is left?
Turning to the previous briefing files I made, check out a chart I made in 2019, documented in almost half a century now, since the 1980s after the Taiwan Tea Alpine Green Tea mainstream production area, the market began to pursue up the three words of Alpine Tea, from the altitude, the mountain, the mountain gas commercial discourse gradually flourished.
Consumers have just started to buy all the teas, but gradually they have doubts in their mind, "Is it true that the higher the altitude, the better the high mountain tea? However, there is no doubt that the names of the places appearing on this map are all first-class good tea areas, and the raw materials of these teas definitely have their own advantages. While we pursue the use of raw materials, have we ever thought about how much of the "Taiwanese flavour of the master craftsmanship" is left nowadays?
It's not the altitude.
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The bad thing is that it's costly.
Tea is grown in an environment where better 'raw materials' can be grown at high altitude, but the quality of the raw materials does not necessarily mean the quality of the finished product.
In addition to the altitude of the environment, there are many other elements that are important in influencing the quality of tea:
- Tea Garden Management
- Picking Standards
- Tea Making
- Filter
- preservation method
Of course, there are also people to the variety, season, packaging, etc., categorised under the strict standards for measuring quality, from the above categories cited, we can know that the final product of a good cup of tea, the quality of the interlocking indispensable, and the quality of raw materials, good or bad, is only a small part, does not mean that the results of the quality of the comprehensiveness.
The explanation of Mr Tuan, the answer to the interviews on the industrial chain, the production side and the sales market.
The precise explanation of the correct way of understanding altitude is that, relative to high-cost production areas, high costs and low annual production will of course result in higher prices when sold.
- Shan Tou Qi: A commercial term referring to the established flavours of different tea regions.
- Shanchang: A commercial term that refers to the feeling that only a specific area of the tea region has.
- Terroir: A word with a clear academic explanation or definition under the humanities and social sciences. (TERROIR)
Article courtesy of thesavory.com (pinterest)
Quality does not only come from the height, the price does come from the height, but also the cost.
The demand side has wanted to have the flavour of the mountain, creating a cultural discourse of mountainousness. Alpine is no longer alpine, tea is no longer tea, and the three words "alpine tea" have become a commodity term under the operation of the market.
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