{"id":10779,"date":"2019-01-14T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/?post_type=product&p=10779"},"modified":"2024-04-21T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:50:47","slug":"yuchi-assamica","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/tea\/black-tea\/yuchi-assamica\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuchi Assamica"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yuchi Assamica (\u9b5a\u6c60\u9109\u963f\u85a9\u59c6) is a wonderful showcase of the complex and unusual black teas that are produced in Taiwan. This black tea is crafted from a TRES #8 Assamica cultivar that is grown at an altitude of around 700m in Yuchi Township, located on the edge of the picturesque Sun Moon Lake (\u65e5\u6708\u6f6d) in central Taiwan. It was hand picked in March 2019 and is sourced by us from the grower via our Taiwanese tea master.<\/p>\n
This Yuchi Assamica is made from the TRES #8 cultivar that is also known as the Assamica tea plant in Taiwan. This particular cultivar was registered by the Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station (TRES) in 1973. It was selected from camellia sinensis var. assamica<\/em> plants that were originally brought from Assam in India.<\/p>\n The story of the arrival of these plants goes back to the Japanese colonisation of Taiwan. During the Japanese rule of Taiwan (1895-1945) the Japanese established the first Tea Research Institute in Taiwan with a view to create a black tea industry to rival the black tea exports of the British Empire. In the 1920’s, the first camellia sinensis var. assamica<\/em> tea plants were introduced from Assam in India and planted around the Sun Moon Lake area as this was judged to have the perfect growing conditions. The production quickly took off and Taiwan was producing black tea on a large scale until the end of the Japanese rule at the end of World War II. After World War II the production of black tea declined significantly as it became too costly and unprofitable for the farmers.<\/p>\n