Tagged: jin guanyin

DNA Testing Keeps Finding Tieguanyin's Own Cousin in the Bag

Genetic and spectral tests on commercial Tieguanyin keep turning up a different, related Anxi cultivar blended in, most often Benshan, close enough in leaf and aroma to pass for its more famous cousin.

An Oolong Cultivar Takes Two Decades to Earn a Number, and Longer to Reach a Nursery

An oolong cultivar clears a fixed government pipeline of field trials, roughly fourteen to twenty-one years, before it earns a number, then a separate license before any nursery can sell it. Taiwan's newest release traces its parent stock back to the 1960s.