What is "Crimson Pearl Oolong?"

Semi-oxidized tea
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ZigTheWiz
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Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:50 pm

My local tea store sells this tea called Crimson Pearl. I have no idea what this is. It says it's a "deeply fermented" oolong tea, and that it's red in color. Although it's pretty easy to tell that it's been heavily oxidized, I still want to know where it's from before I make a purchase.

Can anyone help find what kind of tea this is?

URL for further info: https://favatea.com/product/crimson-pearl-oolong-tea/
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Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:01 pm

ZigTheWiz wrote:
Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:50 pm
My local tea store sells this tea called Crimson Pearl. I have no idea what this is. It says it's a "deeply fermented" oolong tea, and that it's red in color. Although it's pretty easy to tell that it's been heavily oxidized, I still want to know where it's from before I make a purchase.

Can anyone help find what kind of tea this is?

URL for further info: https://favatea.com/product/crimson-pearl-oolong-tea/
Looks like a roasted Oolong from Taiwan. The name itself is a made-up English name, so it can be anything really, from Donding, Tieguanyin to Red-Oolong some sort of Hybrid Oolong processing that has popped up in recent years.

If their flavour description is anything to go by, I'd say it hints to being a Tieguanyin sort of tea. But probably in processing only not Tieguanyin leaf cultivar, that one is hard to find now and very expensive.
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Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:04 pm

Pearl being a bit unusual term to describe that it's a rolled leaf oolong. Lack of description and details let me think this is a generic, mid-low level offering.
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