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2025 Biluochun First Flush - Rare Reserve Spring Tea(Pre-sale)
We’re excited to offer you the 2025 Early Spring First Flush Bi Luo Chun, sourced from the tea garden of Master Zhang in Dongguan Village, Dai Bu Town, Liyang City, Jiangsu Province. Master Zhang has over 20 years of tea-making experience, having learned from his father, who has been a renowned tea master for over 40 years. Master Zhang has kept traditional tea-making methods alive, using hand-rolling, roasting, and drying techniques passed down through generations. This year's tea is picked in late March, around March 20, and features tender, fresh leaves at the "one bud, one leaf" stage, ensuring the highest quality flavor and aroma.
Product details:
Craftmaster: Zhang Hansong (30 years expertise)
Tea Varietal: Jiukeng Cultivar
Origin: Jiangdong Village, Liyang, Jiangsu, China | 300-400m Elevation
Harvest: First Spring 2025 Plucking (1 bud + 1 leaf standard)
Production Date: Crafted around March 20, 2025
Limited Availability: Only 50 packages available, each 50g
Expected shipping around April 5-10
Why We Source Biluochun from Liyang's Dai Town Instead of Lake Dongting
While Lake Dongting's Biluochun gets the hype, our Liyang Dai Town tea is the purist's pick. Think of it like craft beer vs. mass-produced lager – both quench your thirst, but one's got soul. Grown 60 miles west of Dongting in pollution-free mountain air, these old-growth tea bushes (the hardy 'Jiukeng' variety) have weathered decades to develop complex flavors. You get that classic Biluochun vibe, minus the touristy markup.
Why Handcrafted Beats Machine-Made
Master Zhang treats tea like a slow-cooked meal – no shortcuts. His hands knead each leaf to unlock natural oils (that's where the floral magic happens!), while factory machines just crush and rush. It's the difference between grandma's pie crust and frozen supermarket stuff. Want silky texture and aroma that dances on your tongue? That's the artisan craft talking.
2025 Enshi Yulu First Flush - Jade Dew Limited Edition
We’re excited to bring you the 2025 Early Spring First Pluck Enshi Yulu, a premium green tea from Enshi City, Hubei Province, located in the beautiful Baiyangping Township. This tea is grown in the heart of the Enshi Yulu region at an elevation of 800-900 meters, surrounded by fresh, clean air and pristine nature—one of the core growing areas for Enshi Yulu. Master Zhang Yi, with over 20 years of tea-making experience, is a national-level senior tea master and tea evaluator. He follows in his father’s footsteps, blending traditional tea-making skills with modern techniques to craft every leaf with care. The leaves are picked around March 20th, during the first pluck of the season, when the leaves are at their freshest with a tender bud and one leaf.
Product details
Craftmaster: Zhang Yi (20 years expertise)
Tea Varietal: Enshi Cultivar Group (Entai Early Varietal)
Origin: Dabaoping Group, Baiyangping Town, Enshi City, Hubei, China | 800-900m Elevation
Harvest: First Spring 2025 Plucking (1 bud + 1 leaf standard)
Production Date: Crafted on March 20, 2025
Limited availability: Only 100 sets, each set is 100g (25g of each tea)
Expected shipping around April 5-10
Why choose Enshi’s native tea plant, the Entai Early variety?
For Enshi Yulu, we’ve selected the local Enshi native variety—Entai Early, a traditional “group variety” that’s been naturally selected and cultivated over time. This type of tea tree is more adaptable, has a longer lifespan, and offers more stable and complex flavors. It truly reflects the local environment and soil. Choosing group varieties ensures a purer, more nuanced taste profile, bringing you a natural, multi-layered tea experience.
What makes the core Enshi Yulu region special?
We’ve chosen the core tea-growing region in Enshi—Baiyangping Township in the Dabao Ping Group. This high-altitude area benefits from perfect growing conditions, with rich soil, plenty of sunlight, and a significant temperature difference between day and night. These conditions make the tea leaves grow slower and more concentrated in flavor, producing a tea with a deeper, purer taste that has both consistency and stability. Compared to other regions, Enshi Yulu from this area offers a more refined and authentic flavor.
2025 Longjing First Flush Spring Tea - Limited Stock green tea
We’re thrilled to introduce our 2025 Early Spring First Flush Longjing Tea, handcrafted by the expert Master Sheng Jiangjun. With over 20 years of tea-making experience and more than 30 years specializing in Longjing tea, Master Sheng is a true guardian of traditional tea-making techniques. From 2011 to 2013, he honed his craft in the heart of the Longjing tea-producing region, Meijiawu. Later, he established his own tea workshop in Xingchang, Zhejiang, where he began crafting the distinctive Xingchang Longjing tea that we proudly present to you today.
This particular tea comes from a high-altitude tea garden in the mountains of Zhejiang’s Xingchang region, with harvesting taking place around March 25th, making it a premium first flush green tea—early-picked, tender, and rare.
Product Details
Craftmaster: Sheng Jiangjun (20 years expertise)
Tea Varietal: Xingchang Native Cultivar Group
Origin: Shengzhou, Zhejiang, China | 600-800m Elevation
Harvest: First Spring 2025 Plucking (1 bud + 1 leaf standard)
Production Date: Crafted around March 25, 2025
Limited Availability: Only 50 packages available, each 50g
Why Our Early Spring Harvest Stands Out
Discover the pinnacle of spring tea craftsmanship with our limited 2025 First Flush Longjing. Harvested in late March from the youngest buds of century-old tea bushes, these tender leaves capture the essence of the season with unmatched floral aroma and velvety smoothness.
Xinchang vs. West Lake: A Hidden Gem
We source exclusively from Xinchang, Zhejiang — a pristine mountain region 2,000+ ft above sea level. Unlike crowded West Lake plantations, our organic tea gardens thrive in crisp air and mineral-rich soil, yielding a cleaner, crisper cup with subtle honey undertones.
Old-Growth Tea Bushes: Nature’s Flavor Laboratory
Our 50+ year-old heirloom tea varietals (Longjing Quntizhong) are the OG of green tea. These hardy plants adapt to mountain microclimates, creating complex layers of flavor — think fresh chestnut notes with a lingering orchid finish. Perfect for tea connoisseurs seeking authentic, small-batch quality.
2025 Huangshan Maofeng First Flush - Seasonal Rare Tea(Pre-sale)
We’re excited to introduce the 2025 Early Spring First Pluck Huangshan Maofeng, a premium green tea from Master Yu Chengshi's tea garden in Longma Village, Yanzihe Town, Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province. Master Yu has over 30 years of experience in tea making, specializing in Anhui's famous teas like Maofeng and Guapian. His tea garden is located at an elevation of 800 meters, where wild Jinzhai native tea trees grow naturally. These trees thrive in the pure environment, producing tea with natural aromas and a unique flavor profile. This year’s tea was picked around March 20th, during the first pluck of the spring season, using fresh, tender buds and leaves to ensure top-notch freshness and fragrance.
Product details
Craftmaster: Yu Chengshi (30 years expertise)
Tea Varietal: Jinzhai Native Cultivar Group
Origin: Longma Village, Jinzhai, Anhui, China | 800m Elevation
Harvest: First Spring 2025 Plucking (1 bud + 1 leaf standard)
Production Date: Crafted on March 20, 2025
Limited availability: Only 50 units available, 50g per unit
Expected shipping around April 5-10
Why Choose Jinzhai Huangshan Maofeng Instead of Traditional Huangshan Maofeng?
While traditional Huangshan Maofeng is well-known, we’ve chosen Master Yu’s Jinzhai Huangshan Maofeng because it offers the same exceptional quality and unique flavor, but at a more accessible price. Jinzhai is not part of the core Huangshan region, but its natural environment makes it an ideal place for tea cultivation. The wild, native tea trees here have been growing for many years and produce tea with a flavor very similar to Huangshan Maofeng. The purity of the environment gives the tea a quality comparable to that of the famous Huangshan teas, but with a better price-to-quality ratio.
Why Choose Huangshan Maofeng Group Varieties?
We’ve selected Huangshan Maofeng made from group variety tea plants because it captures the most traditional, pure Huangshan Maofeng flavor. Group variety tea trees are grown from seeds, so they have natural genetic diversity. These trees have undergone years of natural selection, making them more stable and adaptable, which allows them to better reflect the natural flavor of the region.
Compared to modern tea plantations with clonal, asexual propagation, group variety tea trees grow in a more natural environment with deeper root systems. This results in richer, more complex tea flavors. The older age of these trees and their long exposure to the natural environment means they carry the most original tea aromas, delivering a tea with more depth and layers.
Wild red tea, produced in the Damingshan area of Shanglin County, Nanning, Guangxi. The tea gardens are primarily located at an altitude of 900 meters.Wild red tea grows in a pristine ecological environment with abundant vegetation. Due to the absence of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, its yield is limited, with only one spring tea harvest per year. It is processed using the traditional Lapsang Souchong Tea Process (non-smoked). It boasts a rich and unique floral aroma, with a sweet and refreshing taste, bright orange-yellow liquor, and evident golden rings.
Wild black tea is produced in Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, the birthplace of Anhua black tea. The tea gardens are primarily located in mountainous areas at an altitude of 1000 meters. Grown in a pristine ecological environment with abundant vegetation, this wild black tea is cultivated without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in limited yield with only one spring harvest per year. Processed using the Qiujiang Bopian Tea technique, it offers a pure and long-lasting pine-smoke aroma. The taste is rich, mellow, and sweet, with a lasting aftertaste and a unique pine-smoke fragrance. After consumption, a lingering sweetness remains in the mouth, leaving a memorable and unforgettable experience. Even after multiple infusions, it retains its distinctive aroma.
Wild green tea, produced in Kaishan Town, Hezhou City, Guangxi. The tea area is situated at an altitude of around 1000 meters, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with mist shrouding the area year-round. Grown in a pristine ecological environment with abundant vegetation, this wild green tea is cultivated without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in limited yield with only one spring harvest per year. Processed using the techniques of Roasted Green Tea, it offers a rich and refreshing taste, initially slightly bitter but quickly turning sweet, with a fragrant and full-bodied aroma. The taste is complex and layered, with a unique apple fragrance and a lingering aftertaste. Even after multiple infusions, the aroma remains fresh and pleasant. The liquor is clear and bright, with a yellow-green hue, visually appealing.
Wild oolong tea, produced in Li Jiang Village, Longsheng County, Guilin, Guangxi. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, the region boasts rich organic soil with strong sunlight and frequent rainfall, at an altitude of around 1000 meters. Grown in a pristine ecological environment with abundant vegetation, this wild oolong tea is cultivated without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in limited yield with only one spring harvest per year. Processed using the techniques of Wuyi rock tea, it offers a rich floral and fruity aroma, with a fragrant infusion and a burst of floral and fruity notes upon tasting. The liquor is bright orange-red, with evident golden rings.
2025 First Flush Spring Tea Collection: Biluochun, Longjing & More
We’re excited to introduce a unique tea experience: the 2025 Early Spring First Harvest Green Tea Collection. This special gift box includes four of China’s most loved and iconic first harvest green teas, giving you the chance to enjoy the different flavors of Longjing, Biluochun, Huangshan Maofeng, and Enshi Yulu all in one go.
Product Includes:
2025 First Flush Longjing - Artisan-Crafted Spring Green Tea (25g)
2025 First Flush Biluochun - Hand-Rolled Curly Green Tea (25g)
2025 First Flush Huangshan Maofeng - High-Mountain Bud Tea (25g)
2025 First Flush Enshi Yulu - Steamed Jade Dew Tea (25g)
Limited availability: Only 100 sets, each set is 100g (25g of each tea)
Why Choose This Collection?
Taste Four Classic First Harvest Teas in One Box Whether you’re a green tea enthusiast or someone wanting to dive into Chinese tea culture, this collection is the perfect choice. From Longjing’s refreshing taste, Biluochun’s floral fragrance, Huangshan Maofeng’s rich aftertaste, to Enshi Yulu’s clean and pure flavor – each tea offers a completely different tasting experience, making it a journey for your taste buds.
First Harvest Means Better Quality Each tea in this collection comes from the 2025 Early Spring First Harvest – handpicked from the youngest, freshest buds of the season, guaranteeing vibrant freshness and rich aromas. First harvest teas are especially rare and prized; once the season passes, it’s almost impossible to find them again.
Sourced from Top Tea Regions, Expertly Crafted These teas are from China’s most renowned tea-growing regions, carefully crafted by seasoned tea masters. Whether it’s the signature fragrance of Longjing, the floral notes of Biluochun, the sweetness of Huangshan Maofeng, or the refreshing taste of Enshi Yulu – each tea is a masterpiece from a tea master, grown in ideal natural conditions.
Tai Ping Hou Kui is a renowned Chinese green tea from the famous production area of Huangshan in Anhui Province. This tea comes from the core region of Tai Ping Hou Kui, specifically Qiaoshan Village in Xinming Township, where unique climatic conditions—cool, moist weather and fertile soil—create an ideal growing environment.
Our premium Tai Ping Hou Kui mainly consists of one bud and three leaves, carefully selected during the harvest, which typically occurs around the Grain Rain festival. Each leaf is covered in fine white down, showcasing its exceptional quality. We collaborate with Master Yu Jianguo, a tea farmer with over 20 years of experience in growing and crafting tea, ensuring expertise in creating this exquisite beverage.
This tea is made from the traditional seed-reproducing Shi Da Ye variety, known for its late-maturing characteristics. Coupled with the high altitude of the Huangshan region, the first harvest occurs around the Grain Rain period, resulting in a batch of Tai Ping Hou Kui that delivers vibrant flavors and aromas, captivating tea enthusiasts. Each sip captures the essence of its misty mountainous origins, offering a rich, smooth mouthfeel with a delightful sweetness.
Why Choose Tai Ping Hou Kui?
Authentic Craftsmanship & Core Origin: This Tai Ping Hou Kui comes from the heart of Huangshan City in Anhui Province, ensuring that every leaf captures the unique climate and fertile soil of the region. These natural conditions create an ideal environment for the tea trees to thrive, resulting in exceptional quality.
Direct Sourcing, Great Value: We collaborate directly with local tea farmers to ensure the authenticity and freshness of our tea. This direct sourcing approach not only guarantees high quality but also allows us to offer competitive prices, giving you premium tea without breaking the bank.
Early Spring Harvest: Our Tai Ping Hou Kui is harvested right around the Grain Rain season, making it one of the first teas of spring. This timing ensures that the leaves are picked while they’re bursting with vitality, preserving their delicate characteristics and rich flavors.
High-Quality Tea Varietals: We use the traditional Shi Da Ye tea tree variety, known for its late-maturing traits. Combined with Huangshan’s unique climate, this leads to remarkable quality, ensuring every sip is filled with pure, natural essence and aroma.
This Huangshan Maofeng green tea is carefully selected from the renowned high-mountain tea-growing regions of China, harvested from ancient tea trees over 60 years old, thriving in gravelly soil at an altitude of 800 meters. Recognized as one of the top ten famous teas in China and listed as a national intangible cultural heritage, its traditional craftsmanship is personally overseen by the experienced tea master, Master Yu. He adheres to the philosophy of traditional craftsmanship and hand refinement, combining high-quality raw materials to create this high-quality, affordable Huangshan Maofeng green tea.
Compared to the common Longjing tea, Huangshan Maofeng does not have the bean and chestnut aromas of Longjing but focuses more on the natural fragrance, orchid scent, and sweetness of the green tea itself, without any seaweed flavor. Its taste is fresh and elegant, and the tea soup presents a clear greenish-yellow, offering a very pure high-mountain tea experience.
Why choose this Huangshan Maofeng?
Top-shelf ingredients: Harvested from 60-year-old tea trees planted in high-altitude (800 meters) gravelly soil, these conditions endow the tea leaves with rich minerals and a unique sweet orchid aroma.
Traditional craftsmanship: Made by an experienced tea master using traditional drying techniques, preserving the natural aroma and taste of the tea leaves.
Great value: Despite its top-tier ingredients and traditional craftsmanship, this Huangshan Maofeng is priced at half the cost of similar Longjing teas, making it ideal for consumers who pursue high quality on a budget.
Suitable for tea enthusiasts who:
Enjoy exploring niche high-quality green teas: Huangshan Maofeng is a niche tea in the Western market, with a unique fragrance and orchid scent, perfect for tea lovers who like to try new types of tea.
Prefer green teas without the seaweed flavor common in steamed green teas: Huangshan Maofeng is more refreshing and natural.
Seek value for money in green tea: This tea is affordable yet does not compromise on quality, especially suitable for those who wish to savor top-tier green tea within their budget.
Not suitable for tea enthusiasts who:
Prefer strong pan-frying aromas or the bean and chestnut scents of Longjing tea, as Huangshan Maofeng has a milder and fresher flavor profile.
Seek very strong or full-bodied tea soup, as Huangshan Maofeng has a lighter color and softer taste, not providing an intensely robust experience.
By choosing this Huangshan Maofeng, you will taste a Chinese high-mountain green tea that combines high quality with great value, experiencing the true beauty of traditional handcrafted tea art.
Origin of Huangshan Maofeng
Location: Huangtian Village, Huangtian Township, She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China
Picking Standard: One bud with two leaves
Tea Cultivar: Huangshan Large-leaf Variety
Tea Tree Age: Approximately 60 years
Tasting Grade Longjing Tea Product Introduction and Reasons for Recommendation:
This Tasting Grade Longjing Tea is semi-handcrafted by Master Pan, who has 30 years of tea-making experience, and is carefully selected from the freshest pre-rain spring tea of 2024. As a traditional group variety Longjing, this tea is picked from high-altitude tea gardens in Lishui, Zhejiang, at an altitude of over 900 meters, where the superior climate conditions give the tea a more refreshing taste and rich layers of flavor. The tea is picked with buds and one to two leaves, ensuring its fresh and sweet taste, accompanied by a light and elegant fragrance.
Reasons for Recommendation:
Exquisite Craftsmanship: Master Pan has 30 years of experience in making Longjing tea, combining semi-manual techniques to ensure that each batch of tea can showcase the classic taste and unique flavor of Longjing tea.
High-Altitude Tea Gardens: Compared to other Longjing teas, this tea comes from high-altitude tea gardens in Lishui, where the superior climate conditions make the tea richer in substance, sweeter in taste, and more refreshing in aroma.
Pre-Rain Harvest: Pre-rain Longjing has tender leaves and is rich in substances, with a clear and sweet tea soup, accompanied by an elegant floral fragrance, making it a top choice among high-quality green teas.
Group Variety Tea Trees: Group variety tea trees have deep root systems, resulting in a richer taste and more lasting aroma. Compared to the Longjing 43 variety, Longjing tea made from group variety tea trees is more resistant to brewing, and the tea soup has a richer taste.
Suitable for:
Consumers who pursue high-quality green tea and pay attention to cost-effectiveness.
People who like the fresh and sweet taste of Longjing and want to experience the authentic flavor of the group variety Longjing.
Not Suitable for:
Tea lovers who prefer a richer and fuller taste may find this Longjing too subtle.
If you are only looking for the core production area West Lake Longjing, this Lishui Longjing may not be within your consideration.
Whether you are looking to experience high-quality Longjing or to find an affordable and authentic green tea, this Tasting Grade Longjing Tea will be an ideal choice.
Biluochun is one of China's most iconic green teas with a legacy that spans a thousand years. It's renowned for its unique floral and fruity aroma, often hailed as the most fragrant tea among greens. Traditional Biluochun tea gardens interplant fruit trees with tea bushes, allowing the leaves to naturally absorb a rich bouquet of floral and fruity scents, creating Biluochun's distinctive fresh and natural fragrance.
Our connoisseur-grade Biluochun is handpicked from the collective species (Jiu Keng variety) tea garden in Jiangdong Village, Tongguan Village Committee, Daibu Town, Liyang City, Jiangsu Province. The tea is personally crafted by Master Zhang, who has 30 years of tea-making experience. He adheres to the most traditional hand-crafting techniques to ensure that each leaf embodies the authentic flavor profile of Biluochun. Master Zhang's Biluochun boasts a distinct floral and fruity aroma, a long-lasting aftertaste, and a refreshing spring vibe with a delicate mouthfeel.
This tea is harvested before the rain, selecting the high-grade one bud and one leaf tea materials. The leaves are plump and tender green, and the tea soup is clear in color with a fresh sweet taste, almost devoid of astringency. Although its flavor and quality are on par with products from the core production area, the price is only half to one-third of the core origin products, making it a Biluochun tea with both high quality and great value for money.
Reasons to recommend:
Unique floral and fruity aroma: Biluochun's signature scent comes from the interplanted fruit trees in the tea garden. The dry tea has a natural, light aroma that becomes more pronounced upon brewing, making it especially suitable for tea enthusiasts who prefer a subtle fragrance.
Traditional handcrafting: This tea is handmade by Master Zhang with 30 years of experience, ensuring that the shape and flavor of each tea leaf are perfectly preserved. Handcrafted tea has a more delicate taste and a long, lingering aftertaste.
Great value: Although the tea comes from the surrounding high mountain tea gardens of the core production area, the quality is comparable to the authentic origin, but the price is only half to one-third of the tea from the core production area, making it suitable for consumers who pursue value for money.
High-grade picking: The tea is picked according to the high-grade standard of one bud and one leaf, especially before the rain, ensuring the tenderness and fresh taste of the tea leaves, and the tea soup is clear and bright.
Not recommended for:
Tea enthusiasts who prefer a strong roasted flavor: If you like the strong roasted flavor or bean flavor brought by the pan-frying process of Longjing or Biluochun, the floral and fruity aroma of this Biluochun may not meet your taste preferences.
Consumers with a limited budget: Although this tea offers great value, there may be cheaper options for consumers who are solely focused on price.
In summary, if you're looking for traditional craftsmanship, high quality, and a unique flavor profile, and you're fond of Biluochun's distinctive floral and fruity aroma, this connoisseur-grade Biluochun is an ideal choice for you.
Origin of Biluochun
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Location: Liyang, Zhejiang Province, China
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Picking Standard: One bud with one leaf
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Tea Cultivar: Jiu Keng Variety — a local group small-leaf cultivar from Dongting Mountain
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Tea Tree Age: Approximately 60 years
Biluochun is a renowned green tea in Chinese history, and the top grade of Biluochun requires not only high picking standards and early harvest times but also the craftsmanship of a master. The tea we've chosen is supervised by Shi Liwen, a non-heritage cultural inheritor of Biluochun. Shi Yuewen, born into a family known as the "Tea King," has ancestors who were called "Old Biluo" for their tribute of Biluochun to the imperial court, and his grandmother, Zhou Ruijuan, personally pan-fried tea for Zhu De. Building on the traditional skills of making Biluochun tea, Shi Yuewen has created new methods for making Biluochun black tea and osmanthus-flavored black tea. In 2017, he was selected as a representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage projects. The tea he personally makes is not available for purchase; it requires advance booking and is extremely expensive.
Huangshan Maofeng Green Tea – High Mountain Chinese Green Tea with Orchid Aroma
Huangshan Maofeng is one of the most renowned green teas in China, grown in the designated regions around Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) in Anhui Province.
This tea stands out for its elegant appearance—fine white hairs cover the leaves, and the bud tips stand upright like mountain peaks, which inspired its name “Maofeng,” meaning “Fur Peak.”
It delivers a refreshing green tea aroma, a subtle orchid fragrance, and a naturally sweet, smooth taste, making it a classic choice for both tea enthusiasts and newcomers.
Why Choose Huangshan Maofeng Tea?
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✅ High Mountain Origin: Harvested from 60-year-old tea trees at 800 meters altitude, grown in mineral-rich pebble soil—ideal for producing rich, complex flavors.
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✅ Traditional Craftsmanship: Carefully processed by tea masters using time-honored methods to lock in freshness and preserve the tea’s delicate orchid notes.
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✅ Perfect for Green Tea Beginners: This tea is smooth, lightly floral, and never bitter—even with longer steeps—making it one of the best Chinese green teas for daily drinking.
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✅ Excellent Value: Offers the ideal balance between quality and price, curated for those looking to explore authentic Chinese teas without overpaying.
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✅ Clean Taste, Lasting Aroma: Unlike roasted green teas, Huangshan Maofeng highlights the pure taste of tea leaves and subtle floral undertones.
Who Should Try This Tea?
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Green tea lovers exploring iconic Chinese teas
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Newcomers looking for a mild, sweet green tea
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Shoppers seeking high-quality, budget-friendly tea
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Those who enjoy refreshing, floral teas without bitterness
Brewing Instructions
Chinese Gongfu Style:
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Water temperature: 80°C–85°C (176°F–185°F)
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Tea-to-water ratio: 1:40
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Steep time: 15–30 seconds
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Re-steep: Up to 5 times
Western Brewing Style:
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Water temperature: 85°C (185°F)
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Tea-to-water ratio: 1:50
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Steep time: 2–3 minutes
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Re-steep: 2–3 times
Many white teas sold online in the U.S. are either of lower grades or come from Yunnan, making it tough to find authentic Fuding white tea at a reasonable price. Our Gongmei white tea from the renowned Fuding region in Fujian offers just that - an authentic taste rooted in traditional sun-drying and slow withering crafts, meticulously made from the local "cai cha" variety.
If you're looking for a genuine origin, traditional tea craft, and a balanced flavor profile – neither too light nor too strong – this tea provides excellent value for money. Its smooth and easy-drinking character makes it a perfect choice for beginners.
Why choose our Gongmei White Tea?
Genuine Origin: Our tea comes from the prestigious Fuding region in Fujian, ensuring authenticity and adherence to Fuding's high standards.
Traditional Variety: We use the local "cai cha" variety, known for its strong adaptability and imparting a rich flavor profile to the tea.
Classic Craft: Our Gongmei white tea undergoes traditional sun-drying and slow withering processes, essential for developing the tea's fresh and pure taste.
Suitable for Long-Term Storage: The quality of this tea allows for long-term storage, with its flavor becoming more elegant over time, potentially increasing in value as it ages.
High-Value Choice: For those seeking the authentic flavor of Fuding white tea without the high price tag, our Gongmei offers a high-value choice without compromising quality.
Perfect Balance: If you're looking for a white tea that's neither too light nor too strong, our Gongmei achieves a perfect balance, providing a smooth and easy-drinking experience at a reasonable price.
Ideal for Beginners: Our carefully curated Gongmei white tea offers a gentle introduction for white tea novices, avoiding the pitfalls of being too bland or too strong for new tea drinkers.
Experience the gentle charm of our authentic Gongmei white tea, with its selected quality and value, making it an ideal choice for everyday drinkers and those new to the world of white tea.
Buying Recommendation:
This 2021Gongmei White Tea is crafted from tender shoots of the Fuding Qunti tea variety using traditional sun-drying methods. It offers a rich, full-bodied flavor profile with notes of dried fruit and honey, making it an excellent choice for those who enjoy white teas with deeper, nutty undertones. However, if you prefer a lighter, fresher, or more delicate tea experience, you might want to explore other white tea options.
2021 Gongmei Basic Info:
Origin: Fuding, Fujian, China
Harvest Date: April 2021
Grade: Premium Gongmei
Tea Variety: Fuding Qunti
Crafted By: Li Shengyuan, a skilled tea artisan
Flavor Profile: Bold and satisfying with hints of dried fruit and honey
What Makes It Special: A traditional sun-dried white tea made from mature leaves and buds, offering a uniquely rich and nutty flavor
About Gongmei Tea:
Gongmei, a type of white tea defined by the GB/T 22291-2017 National Standard, is made exclusively from the Qunti tea variety. Unlike Baihao Yinzhen or Bai Mudan, Gongmei is crafted from slightly more mature leaves, typically one bud and two to three leaves, giving it a more robust and layered taste. It’s perfect for those who enjoy a richer white tea experience, with deep, nutty flavors and subtle dried fruit and honey notes.
Storage Tips:
To maintain freshness:
Keep tea dry, with moisture below 8.5%.
Store at a temperature around 77°F (25°C) and relative humidity under 45%.
Avoid light, odors, and exposure to air.
White tea aged three years or more can be classified as "aged white tea," offering even more complex flavors for collectors and enthusiasts.
How to Brew Fresh Gong Mei White Tea:
Gaiwan Brewing:
5g tea in a 110ml gaiwan.
Rinse: 10 seconds with boiling water, discard.
Brew: 30 seconds for the 2nd, add 5 seconds per brew.
How to Brew Aged Gong Mei White Tea:
Gong Mei Thermos Brewing
1g tea per 100ml (3.4oz) water.
Boiling water (212°F).
Steeping Time: 1-2 hours.
Recommended Tool: Insulated thermos.
Boiling Method:
Add 1g of tea per 100ml (3.4oz) water.
Boil for 1-2 minutes, then let it sit for 2-3 minutes.
For each rebrew, boil 3 minutes longer.
Use a glass or ceramic teapot.
Enjoy up to 3 brews.