Fuding is the home to three famous teas.  Bai Hao Yin Zhen (Silver Needles), Bai Lin Hong Cha (aka Golden Monkey), and Bai Mu Dan (aka White Peony).  Fuding area teas enjoy fair weather and rich loamy soil giving them a special sweet and fruity quality.  Our “White Peony” is harvested from first flush of Spring harvested tea.

The taste is sweet and fruity, with very little astringency.  We recommend brewing with 90C water gong fu style to get the best taste from this wonderful tea!

Origin:  Fuding, Fujian Province

First Flush Spring Harvest

Altitude: 600 meters

Varietal:  Fuding Da Hao

Fuding Bai Cha In order of tippiest to coarsest:

1st Grade – Bai Hao Yin Zhen (Silver Needles, Pure Bud)

2nd Grade – Bai Mu Dan (1 leaf to 1 bud)

3rd Grade – Gong Mei (2 leaf to 1 bud)

4th grade – Shou Mei (3 leaf to 1 bud)

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The aroma when brewed at first reminds us of cured cannabis flowers and orchids.  The taste is thick and pungent, with sweetness and little or no astringency.  The tea has body and seems to expand in the mouth.  The after-taste is noticeable and long with a soothing lubricating effect on the mouth and throat.

Roast level:  Light to Medium

Just 3.5 kilograms in total produced!

Late-April Harvest

Li Zi Ping Village, Feng Huang Town, Raoping County of Guangdong Province.

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Jin Yao Shi has been grown for about 100 years by just a few families. Our tea is from one of the two original gardens with leaves being picked from 15 to 60 year old bushes and trees.

Jin Yao Shi is typically processed with a medium level of roasting and ours is a traditional medium roast style. Smooth with a fruity, sweet minerality! We recommend aging this tea in a sealed pouch or air-tight canister for at least 6 months!

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Ba Xian is a special varietal in that it has 53 distinct aromatic molecules in it.  It is also grown completely naturally without the use of pesticides, using composted chicken manure as it’s sole fertilizer.  

The taste is strong with an up-front bitterness that quickly fades in to a fruit and flower sweetness.  It has a distinct White Magnolia (白玉兰香) aroma to it.

An incredibly unique tea, grown naturally and carefully processed to preserve it’s lovely character.

Spring Harvest from Ping Keng Tou village (850 meters)

Only 15 kilograms in total produced!

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Incredibly complex and tasty tea!  Must be experienced!

Late April Picking

Area:  Wu Dong Mountains

Altitude: 800 meters

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Scott drinks and discusses the 2018 version of this tea in this video:

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This is a lovely middle mountain (中山) elevation Mi Lan Xiang (蜜兰香) from Da An village, grown at an altitude of roughly 900 meters from decades old tea bushes growing wild.

Strong and thick tea, golden yellow tea soup, powerful honey and orchid aroma.  Perfect balance of sweet, bitter and umami with a long lasting mouth-feeling.  Cha Qi is powerful and clean.

This is a high quality Mi Lang Xiang that will surely please even the most discerning Dan Cong connoisseurs! 

Roast level: Light-Medium

Spring Harvest from Da An Village

Only 10 kilograms in total produced!

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Spring Harvest notes: Spring picked Middle Mountain Dan Cong is typically harvested in early April! Our Spring Yu Lan Xiang is fresh, umami, bitter, and astringent, but also has a long lasting fruity sweetness and heady aroma. Like the winter harvest (also available), this a prominent sweet magnolia flower nectar aroma and taste!

Winter Harvest notes:  Winter picked Dan Cong is typically picked and processed in Late-October into mid-November and carries a unique taste and feeling.  Our winter harvested “Yu Lan Xiang” has a sweet magnolia nectar aroma and thick sweet floral taste that is countered by some vegetal bitterness, however the sweet floral character with a creamy taste/feeling dominates the palate.

Winter Harvest is early November

Spring Harvest is early April

Origin:  Tou She Village, Feng Huang Town, Raoping County of Guangdong Province.

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April Harvest.  Re-roasted in May!

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Xing Ren Xiang “Almond Aroma” is one of the many varietals of Dan Cong that has been around for centuries. It is called “almond aroma” because during the roasting process the tea smells much like roasted almonds! 

The taste is crisp, bitter-sweet, with notes of honey and cream.

April Harvest

Xing Ren Xiang Varietal  杏仁香

Altitude: 870 meters

Area: Ping Keng Tou Village, Wu Dong Shan, Guangdong

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Late-April Harvest

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