Super Bug

This tea is kind of an enigma. It is a very nice Spring high mountain oolong from Lishan, originally harvested in 2019 and lightly charcoal roasted.  However the characteristic that makes it an outlier is that it was not only visited by tea jassids, but was bitten so extensively by them that you could almost say it was bug bitten to a fault. The tea jassids go for the most tender part of the tea plant, the tiny new growth budding leaves, and if you spread out the brewed leaf on a plate after infusing it appears that almost every single baby bud was attacked by a tea jassid. The result is the baby leaves never grew up and maintained their incredibly delicate young bud character throughout the oolong making process. But the picking was done as a standard oolong tea, including the lower two mature leaves (even if the baby leaf is stunted by bug attack, the lower leaves can and do continue to grow). So you have some very very tender material with incredibly defined buggy-honey taste, and m