With a skilled hand and fine tuned nose, kung fu tea masters use touch, smell and years of experience to create semi-oxidized teas. Oolongs (also known as Wulong tea or wu-long tea) have the rounded fullness of flavor of black tea with the light clean tones of green tea. The perfect bridge for the fine tea revolution to introduce westerners to greener tea.

Oolong or wulong, meaning Black Dragon, is famous from fujian China and Taiwan or as it used to be called, Formosa. Many believe that the finest oolong tea is produced in Taiwan. Even today exceptional oolong tea is still referred to as Formosa oolong tea (sometimes even if it originates from China).

Wu-long tea is semi-oxidized tea, a cross between green and black tea. In Chinese medical tradition oolong tea is commonly used as an aid to digestion and is widely prized for its weight loss benefits. Teabox offers a range of the finest oolong tea from Taiwanese origin, including Oriental Beauty, Wu Yi and Li Shan high grown, organic, hand picked, premium grades of Formosa Oolong tea.

The wide spectrum between almost black to just off green make this one of the most complex categories of tea.

Oolong tea may be famous as a weight loss tea, but it also has a lot to offer the connoisseur in flavor. Find the flavor that suits you and enjoy the many layers of subtleties these teas have to offer.

Enjoy in a Yi Xing tea set for full appreciation.

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