Luye
A township on the Fulu plateau in Taitung, at the southern end of the East Rift Valley, whose tea was promoted under the name Fulu from the 1980s. It sits lower and hotter than the mountain oolong districts, so the local speciality is a heavily oxidised, honey-scented red oolong made from summer leaf — a style that turns the season’s usual disadvantage into the point of the tea.
History on this page: TeaHQ synthesis
TeaHQ's own reading of well-attested general knowledge, with no single source behind it.
This district’s description dates something — a founding, a first planting, a period of expansion. The label above says on what basis, and it applies to the historical statements rather than to the elevation, climate or soil claims below, which carry their own confidence separately.
Elevation
Recorded at 150–500 metres.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
When it is picked
Summer leaf made into a heavily oxidised, honey-scented red oolong — a district that turned the season everyone else discounts into the basis of its product, at an altitude too low to compete on spring high-mountain terms.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
How the name is written
Also transliterated as lu ye, luye. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.
Teas this region is known for
- Hong Shui oolong — Fruity and honeyed with a warm roasted depth, sitting closer to a light black tea than to modern Taiwanese oolong. A useful reminder that the green floral style is a recent fashion rather than the tradition.
Other growing regions in Taiwan
The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.
Sources
- TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ
This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.