Bai Xiang Guo Jin Xuan "AA" (Fire Flower with Passion Fruit Scent), 2025

Bai Xiang Guo Jin Xuan is a Taiwanese oolong with passion fruit flavor. This example is made from high-quality raw materials from Jin Xuan (Fire Flower) bushes. Usually, tea flavoring is used to hide the mediocrity of low-quality raw materials or to sell that same light oolong that has been lying around in the warehouse for a long time. Here, the motives are more benevolent: since flavored tea is popular and there is a demand for it, why not take good raw materials, a good flavoring and ultimately make good tea? Yes, you can’t sell it for next to nothing, but at least you will preserve your honesty.

A pleasant, not cloying passion fruit flavor does not interrupt the main, fresh and juicy notes of the raw material, but only pushes them into the background. Ahead: tropics, passion fruit and a slightly hedonistic atmosphere of enjoying beach sweetness. In the background: light freshness and natural floral flair of Jin Xuan raw material, so as to know the honor. The state is akin to Taiwanese light oolong - a small plus in mood and lightness.

Bai Xiang Guo is a great alternative to cheap aromatics. It's still easier on the soul to give a flavored tea lover something like this than to leave him to the mercy of fate in his trips to supermarket islands.