Wuling Farm TeaWuling Farm Tea
Where to buy it
Flavour
Elegant aroma with high mountain fruit notes
Wuling Farm is at 1,800 metres, the lowest and most accessible link in the Lishan chain.
Eighteen hundred metres is cold enough, but gentler than Fushoushan's 2,600. Growth is not as slow and the flavour is not as tightly wound — which also means it is easier to drink than tea from the extreme heights. You do not have to wait for it to open up.
Unfired, light and elegant, with the fruit note of the high mountains.
⚠️ Wuling is a busy tourist destination, and what is sold at the roadside is not necessarily from the farm. If you want the farm's tea, buy it from the farm's own outlet.
Fair priceestimated
One jin is 600 g. Below NT$1,800, be sceptical.
A reasonable range is NT$3,000–6,000 per 600 g. Below NT$1,800, ask more questions. "High mountain tea" has no legal definition in Taiwan. Ask for the exact elevation and the road marker (K number). Competition-grade lots command a large premium. Ask which association ran the competition, which year, and for the seal. This range is estimated from nearby regions and elevation; it has not been verified against listed prices.
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.
Grading standards differ between associations, so awards are not comparable across competitions. Genuine lots come with a seal and certificate.
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.
Specifications
About the origin
In the Wuling valley of Heping, Taichung, between 1,700 and 2,200 metres. The veterans' commission farm at Wuling was first to trial high-mountain tea here, in 1981, and later brought its own organic gardens under one name, Wuling Changqing — one of the so-called four kings of Taiwanese high-mountain tea. Cloud sits on it year-round; the water comes off the Xueshan and Qijiawan streams. Qingxin Oolong and Jin Xuan, picked by hand. The leaf is thick and supple, the aroma quiet with high-mountain fruit, the taste round and good for many steeps.
These figures will be updated if they change.
Brewing
Why this temperature
Ball-rolled oolong is tightly wound, and the first pour only reaches the outside of the pellet, so it needs water close to boiling to open at all. If it does not open, the later steeps swing between thin and heavy. The first and second steeps often take the same time or less, because the leaf does not truly unfurl until the second.
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.
The window for temperature and timing is narrow. On your first try use slightly less leaf and shorter steeps.
Rolled-ball leaf needs the first infusion to open up; the second is then shorter.
Best drunk within two months.
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.
This one is Taiwan-only — not available overseas
Here are the closest teas we can actually ship you:
Alishan High Mountain TeaAlishan 1700m 1700 m Milky Osmanthus2.0–4.0kLocation accuracy: named locality (24.3620, 121.3100). This marks the growing area, not one specific garden.
Lishan Tea Region9
What there is to do here
2 routes Two days possible Lishan・Fushoushan farm・Wuling farm
Two thousand to 2,600 m — the highest tea district in Taiwan. It is a long drive, but the same road gives you peaches, apples, the Xueshan trailhead and the country’s protected salmon. Give it two days at least.