The major production area is located in the Alishan Mountain which is at the altitude of 1200~1600 meters or so, the Jiayi County, Taiwan province. The Taiwan folk alpine love song lyrics written that” the Alishan girls are as beautiful as clear water and young men as strong as the mountain”. This lyric presented directly that the Alishan area was known by its ideal landscape and it is no surprised that the Alishan produced good tea. In addition, there are distinguishing features each in the sunrise sea of clouds of the Alishan, Yushan and Meishan and they are well-known by the world. And this also reflects that the tea produced by the Alishan has certain quality and connotation. There are clouds and misty in the Alishan Mountain every morning and night, and the average sunshine is short, and thus the sweet smell incense is free of vulgarity, and it tastes mellow, sweet, and the tea soup is green transparent. It has good texture and delicious taste, with a throat rhyme, thirst quenching, and there is fragrance lingering in the teeth and cheeks, and thus the Alishan high mountain tea is praised as the highest tea. Moreover, due to the big temperature difference, the tea trees are in slow growth, and thus the tea buds and leaves are soft, the mesophyll is thick, and it is rich in pectin substance etc. And all of above features are the characteristics that the Alishan high mountain tea shows.
