Cloud Line
Sweet · Floral · Creamy · Mineral
Best forA slow, savoured cup — best brewed gong-fu style for many infusions.
Type
Loose-leaf oolong tea
Caffeine
How much lift to expect — and you can shape it: cooler water and shorter steeps draw out less.
Harvest
April 2026
Origin
Dàyǔlǐng, Central Mountain Range, Taiwan
Altitude
Growing elevation. Higher, cooler slopes slow the leaf and tend to concentrate aroma and sweetness; lower gardens give a rounder, fuller cup.
Cultivar
The tea-plant variety — like grape varietals in wine, each carries its own aroma, body and ideal conditions.
OOLONG TEA / SWEET
We chose Cloud Line because it sits at the very top of where tea can grow — 2,150m at Dàyǔlǐng, where the cold and thin air force a sweetness and clean mineral depth you simply can't fake lower down. One cup and you taste the mountain.
Cloud Line
Aanbiedingsprijs€24,50
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Cloud Line
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In detail
A closer look at Cloud Line.
About this tea
Cloud Line is a high-mountain oolong grown at the very edge of where tea can survive — smooth, deeply sweet, and impossibly clean, carrying the cold mineral character of the peaks it comes from.
Our Cloud Line is a Qīng Xīn oolong grown at 2,150m in Dàyǔlǐng, deep in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range — one of the highest tea gardens in the world. At this altitude the bushes sit at the limit of survival, spending close to a quarter of the year under frost and snow. They grow slowly, wrapped year-round in cold mountain cloud. The leaves are tightly rolled jade-green pellets that open into whole, fleshy leaves, brewing into a bright, clear gold.
The cold is what makes it. Huge day-to-night temperature swings — often more than 15°C — force the plant to store up sugars and pectin to survive, and that's exactly what you taste: a full, rounded body and a deep natural sweetness that lingers. The constant mist filters the sunlight, slowing growth and softening any edge of bitterness, so the cup stays remarkably smooth. Beneath the sweetness runs a cool, almost mineral note — the "cold mountain" character you only find this high up — with a soft floral aroma and a sweet, lasting finish. It merits multiple infusions, revealing a little more with each steep.
The garden grows in loose forest gravel that drains fast and feeds the roots a steady supply of minerals, ringed by old-growth cypress and clean, untouched mountain air. Nothing about it is rushed. It's about as pure, and as high, as tea gets.
Best brewed gong-fu style — short, repeated steeps. Enjoy it slowly and on its own. This is a tea to sit with.
This selection was produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and harvested in spring 2026.
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