Camellia Sinensis

Our Shangri-La Oolong is quite an artistic and unique loose-leaf bulk oolong tea. It is not as subtle and/or light as Taiwanese oolongs, rather, it mostly resembles some darker roasted Chinese Oolongs. It does not follow the multiple rolling and oxidation processes that a typical oolong would go through. Instead, matured leaves are plucked, withered for a few hours, and placed through an enzyme to soften the leaves and also stop the oxidation to a degree. The tea leaves then go through about a 30-40-minute rolling process at varying pressure levels. The soft and rubbery leaves are oxidized for another 2 hours before finishing the tea in a commercial dryer resulting in a darker quite heavily oxidized nutty oolong. We’ve been a fan of this bulk oolong tea since its first production and have received tremendous positive reviews ever since.

Kanchanjangha Tea Estate and Research Center Pvt. Ltd. (KTERC) is the first certified organic tea garden in Nepal. It was founded in 1984 by Mr. Deepak Prakash Baskota to lift his community out of poverty. KTERC is still a model social enterprise that operates using cooperative infrastructure and prioritizes people and the environment before profit.