Sanxia
A district in the hills south of Taipei and effectively the only place in Taiwan where green tea is a serious local tradition rather than a sideline. Sanxia makes a Bi Luo Chun and a Longjing-style green from the Qing Xin Gan Zai cultivar, which is grown almost nowhere else on the island. The district survives on proximity to Taipei and on that cultivar, since it cannot compete on altitude with the oolong mountains.
Elevation
Recorded at 50–500 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
Spring-weighted, and unusual in Taiwan for producing a needle-shaped green tea rather than a rolled oolong. The district works an early spring pick on the mainland green-tea logic, in a country that otherwise picks for oxidation.
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 san xia, sanxia. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.
Other teas recorded from here
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.