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Connoisseur Tea Collection

Rare | Top of the Line | Unique Teas

At Great Tea Road, we notice that you are looking for high quality loose leaf teas. Our Connoisseur Tea Collection represents the very best tea selections. Indicator of quality depends on many factors such as varieties, harvest timing, and processing. We work with tea farmers and select unique teas from many part of the world and offer extraordinary flavors and many health benefits to you. 

Sun Moon Lake Black Tea #18

$4.15 - $19.95

Taiwan is an island near China. Although mountainous, its climate conditions make it ideal for farming. Many Taiwanese have either Chinese and/or original tribal heritage, and the country's main languages are Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. This tea is uniquely produced with a mixture of local Taiwanese tea cultivar and Burmese tea cultivar. The leaves were picked by hand. Its smell is like light lotus and cinnamon which is uniquely produced in Taiwan. Read more in our blog. 


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea) 

TYPE: Black Tea

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Medium - High

BREWING DIRECTION: About 2 teaspoons per 7 oz, steep for 2-3 minutes at 212F. Multiple brewing. 

​ORIGIN: Sun Moon Lake area, Taiwan

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight. 

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LiShan Oolong

$2.97 - $14.66

LiShan, Mountain Li, is the tallest mountain in Taiwan. Its fragrance is like sugar cane and cashews. When brew, it has a wildflower with notes of nectarine and jasmine. It gives a medium-heavy body and can brew several times. 


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea) 

TYPE: Oolong

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Medium 

BREWING DIRECTION: About 6 grams per 8oz, 90c for two minutes. Multiple brews. 

​ORIGIN: Li Mountain, Taiwan

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight. 

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Puerh Tangerine

$7.00 - $17.95

A ripe Puerh tea stuffed into a whole tangerine created a tangy and citrusy orange peel aroma and taste. Dried tangerine is used to fortify the spleen and eliminate dampness and inflammation.


​Puerh tea consists of two completely different categories. One is called “Raw Puerh Tea” and another is “Ripe Puerh Tea”. To simplify it, it goes from pan-frying, rolling, drying, and aging it in the storage for raw Puerh tea. As for ripe Puerh, it is fully fermented by mold rather than aged in storage. Normally, people dislike Puerh because of the moldy flavor which is caused by the poor quality of the tea. The earthy flavor in Puerh tea does not only give an unpleasant drinking feeling but also causes health risks. This is why we are carefully selected Puerh from a trusted tea farm. ​


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea), Dried tangerine

CAFFEINE LEVEL: High

BREWING DIRECTION: No need to peel a tangerine. Open the top of the tangerine and pour boiling water onto it. Let it steep for 1-2 minutes. Multiple infused.

ORIGIN: Puerh region, China

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep away from strong odor and sunlight.

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Keemun Mao Feng

$20.95

Harvested earlier than others around early May; it is lighter and sweeter than other Keemun teas. Tender and sweet, very fruity, also floral, and complex.


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

TYPE: Black Tea

CAFFEINE LEVEL: High

BREWING DIRECTION: About 1 teaspoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 3-5 minutes. 

​ORIGIN: China

WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.

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Yunnan Golden Buds

$5.25 - $22.95

The tea has a unique long, closely rolled fat shape, showcasing golden downy pekoe. It has a magnificent reddish-amber color and warm sweet potato flavor, a wonderful afternoon tea!


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

TYPE: Black Tea

CAFFEINE LEVEL: High

BREWING DIRECTION: About 1 teaspoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 3-5 minutes. 

​ORIGIN: China

WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor and sunlight.


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Long Jing (Dragon well)

$4.75 - $22.95

Famous Chinese green tea. Our high-quality Long Jing tea has a very tight, flat shape, and light green color. The aroma is an amazingly complex, lightly grassy, and mild flavor. It gives light grassy and light chestnut flavor. 


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Low

BREWING DIRECTION: About 1 teaspoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 1-2 minutes. 

​ORIGIN: Hangzhou, China

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor and sunlight.

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Fukamushi Gyokuro

$6.15 - $29.95

Tea leaves were steamed rather than roasted to produce a rich dark green color and deep taste with a light grassy aroma. This tea is grown by a tea master in Uji, Japan same as our Genmai Matcha Tea. His family has been producing tea since 1751.


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Low

BREWING DIRECTION: Use cooler water temperature around 122F - 140F about 1 gram per 30 ml of water.

​ORIGIN: Uji, Japan

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight. 

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Phoenix Honey Orchid (Mi Lan Xiang)

$6.95 - $32.95

Phoenix Honey Orchid or Mi Lan Xiang is produced by a tea farm in Tian Zhu Keng village, Feng Huang mountain, China. Its characteristic is light honey taste and orchid fragrance. This is a very smooth tea and persistent orchid fragrance. Oxidation is about 30% and repeatedly roasted. Therefore, it is a sweet, smooth, and subtle orchid fragrance.


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

TYPE: Oolong

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Medium -Low

BREWING DIRECTION: About a heap of tea per 6 oz of water. For multiple infusions by removing the tea leaves from your tea and set them aside until you are ready to re-steep.

​ORIGIN:  Feng Huang mountain, Chinaa

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in an air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight. 

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Eight Immortals (Ba Xian)

$32.95

Eight Immortals or also known in Chinese as Ba Xian is originally from Tian Zhu Keng Village, Feng Huang Mountain, Dandong Prefecture, Liaoning Province, China. This is one of our favorite oolong tea. It is sweet and smooth with a light floral and fruity taste to it. It can be brewed several times. The altitude of tea was grown above 700 meters. One of the best oolong teas and difficult to find. This tea comes from the same family that grows our Phoenix Honey Orchid Oolong tea.


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

TYPE: Oolong

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Medium -Low

BREWING DIRECTION: About a heap of tea per 6 oz of water. Multiple infusions by removing the leaves from your tea and set them aside until you are ready to re-steep.

​ORIGIN: China

WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.

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Pre-Qing Ming Dian Hong (Yunnan Red)

$4.25 - $20.95

Dian Hong or Yunnan Red tea gives a brassy golden orange in color with a sweet, gentle aroma and no astringency. This tea was produced prior to Qing Ming period. Qing Ming is a Chinese festival to remember ancestors. Depending on the lunar but generally ending March or beginning April.


INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

TYPE: Black Tea

CAFFEINE LEVEL: High

BREWING DIRECTION: About a heap of tea per 7 oz of water. Multiple infusions by removing the leaves from your tea and set them aside until you are ready to re-steep.

​ORIGIN: China

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in the air-tight container, away from strong odor and sunlight.

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Pu'erh Cake

$24.95

Pu'erh is also called dark tea. Our Puerh Cake is a Shou-cha (ripe tea) which was fermented then gradually aged with time. This is a bold, lightly earthy, and smooth taste of tea.

If you have traveled to Hong Kong, you may have tasted a wonderful dim-sum meal with Puerh. This tea is known to help with digestion, lower cholesterol, and to seed your gut with probiotics.


INGREDIENTS: Tea

CAFFEINE LEVEL: High

BREWING DIRECTIONS: 6-7g (or about 0.2oz) per 6 oz of water | 212F or 100C ​| Multiple infuses.

ORIGIN: Yunnan, China. Aged 2014.

WEIGHT: 200g | 7oz

GOOD TO KNOW: If you are shopping for Puerh online, beware of what you buy. Due to this type of tea is getting popular, a mass-produced is inevitable. Therefore, the quality could be poor and, sometimes, with mold. We obtained our Puerh cake directly from our tea farmers to make sure that we receive a quality product.

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Huang Shan Mao Feng

$4.15 - $19.95

Many types of green teas tend to have grassy and vegetal fragrances. Our Huang Shan Mao Feng has one of a kind of fragrant with vegetal and orchid flower. The flavor is natural, mild, lingering, and fascinating. This has been the quality character of this tea as one of the Top Ten Chinese Teas. The taste of the tea is also mild, mellow, and can hold several infusions. This is a light rolling tea. The leaf shape is straight and broad, with white hair tips.


Be mindful about using low-temperature water to prepare the tea and you will discover a wonderful fragrant of this our Huang Shan Mao Feng.



INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)

CAFFEINE LEVEL: Low

BREWING DIRECTION: About a heap of tea per 8 oz of water. Multiple infusions by removing the leaves from your tea and set them aside until you are ready to re-steep.

​ORIGIN: Anhui, China

GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in the airtight container, away from strong odor and sunlight.

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