Sanzhanping TeaSanzhanping Tea
Flavour
Cold-mountain floral, thick with pectin
Fair priceestimated
One jin is 600 g. Below NT$1,000, be sceptical.
A reasonable range is NT$1,600–3,200 per 600 g. Below NT$1,000, ask more questions. This figure is an estimate from comparable districts, not a checked listing.
What to ask when buying this
"High mountain tea" has no legal definition in Taiwan. The K number is a road milepost — the most concrete way to pin down origin. Asking it signals you have done your homework.
This price range is estimated from nearby regions and elevation and has not been verified, so compare for yourself.
Spring and winter lots fetch the highest prices and the best aroma; summer and autumn are a step down in both.
If they will not let you taste but want you to buy 600 g of something expensive, walk away. It is the simplest and most effective filter there is.
Specifications
About the origin
In Da-an village, Zhushan, along the Shanlinxi road and the Neihu forest track, between sixteen and eighteen hundred metres — a few plots, at Liurengong and the upper part of Sancengping, reach eighteen fifty. Also written Sancengping. The gardens are scattered between valley floors, stream banks and slopes rather than laid out in one block.
These figures will be updated if they change.
Brewing
Temperatures follow the official category guidance. Source: TRES — Effects of water quality and temperature on tea liquor
Common mistakes with this tea
95°C or above. Too cool and the roast aroma never opens, leaving it flat.
Best drunk within two months.
The most common beginner regret is buying 600 g on the first try. Buy a jin only after you know you like it.
What to eat with it
A chilled jelly has almost no flavour of its own; a heavily roasted tea would bury it. A fragrant, lightly oxidised tea lifts it instead.
Location accuracy: township level (23.6478, 120.7670). This marks the growing area, not one specific garden.
Shanlinxi Tea Region9
What there is to do here
1 routes Day trip Shanlinxi・Around Yangzaiwan and Longfengxia
Above 1,500 m, forty minutes further up the road from Lugu. This is ginkgo, moso bamboo and cloud country; tea is one thing among several here, though it is the one that keeps.