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 countries 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 tea spoon per 7 oz, steep for 2-3 minutes at 212F. Multiple brewing.
ORIGIN: Tawian
GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight.
LiShan Oolong
$4.25 - $20.95
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 brew.
ORIGIN: Li Mountain,Taiwan
GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight.
Pu'erh Tangerine
$4.00 - $14.95
A ripe pu-erh tea stuffed into a whole tangerine created a tangy and citrus-y of orange peel aroma and taste. Dried tangerine is used to fortify spleen and eliminate dampness and inflammation.
The pu-erh tea consists of two completely different categories. One is called “Raw pu-erh Tea” and another is “Ripe pu-erh Tea”. To simplify it, it goes from pan-frying, rolling, drying, and aging it in the storage for raw pu-erh tea. As for ripe pu-erh, it is fully fermented by mold rather than aged in a storage. Normally, people dislike pu-erh because of the moldy flavor which is caused by the poor quality of the tea. The earthy flavor in pu-erh tea does not only give an unpleasant drinking feeling, but also causes health risks. This is why we are carefully selected pu-erh from a trusted tea farm.
INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea) , Dried tangerine
CAFFEINE LEVEL: High
BREWING DIRECTION: No need to peel tangerine. Open the top of tangerine and pour boiling water onto it. Let it steep for 1-2 minutes. Multiple brew.
ORIGIN: China
NOTE: 1 tea box has 5-6 tangeriens.
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 tea spoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 3-5 minutes.
ORIGIN: China
WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.
Yunnan Golden Buds Black Tea
$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 tea spoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 3-5 minutes.
ORIGIN: China
WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.
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 tea spoon per 6-7 oz of water. Steep for 1-2 minutes.
ORIGIN: China
WEIGHT: 56.65g. | 2.0oz.
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 Matcha Toshiyasu and 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 air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight.
Phoenix Honey Orchid Oolong (Mi Lan Xiang)
$6.95 - $32.95
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 sweet, smooth and subtle orchid fragrance.
INGREDIENT: 100% Camellia Sinensis (Tea)
TYPE: Oolong
CAFFEINE LEVEL: Medium -Low
BREWING DIRECTION: About 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: China
GOOD TO KNOW: Keep in air-tight container, away from strong odor or sunlight.
Eight Immortals (Ba Xian)
$32.95
$26.36
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 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 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.
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 ancestor. 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 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.
Pu'erh Cake
$24.95
Pu'erh is also called dark tea. Our pu'erh 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 pu'erh. This tea is known to help with digestive, 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 pu'erh 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 pu'erh cake directly from our tea farmers to make sure that we receive a quality product.
Huang Shan Mao Feng, Green Tea
$4.15 - $19.95
Many types of green teas tends to have grassy and vegetal fragrant. 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 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.
