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2023 Old Tree Wulong Dancong

2023 Old Tree Wulong Dancong

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Wild Arbor Dancong
Picked from Ancient Trees
Wudongshan is home to the oldest Dancong tea trees. Huang Ruiguang's family carefully harvests these old trees and hand-finishes the leaves for notes of basil, cardamom buns, lingonberry and rose with a powerful aftertaste.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wudongshan, Guangdong
Wild Arbor Dancong
Picked from Ancient Trees
Wudongshan is home to the oldest Dancong tea trees. Huang Ruiguang's family carefully harvests these old trees and hand-finishes the leaves for notes of basil, cardamom buns, lingonberry and rose with a powerful aftertaste.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wudongshan, Guangdong
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Crafted by Huang Rui Guang

Recognized by Chaozhou as a living cultural treasure, Master Huang Ruiguang is the grandfather of modern Dancong. His status and award-winning history give him and his family picking rights to one of the best old-growth Dancong plots in Wudongshan.
 
Huang Ruiguang is devoted to continuing his work as a steward of rare ancient Dancong and as a teacher to nearly every family in the village, setting the standard for what defines the very best in competition-level taste, texture and aroma.
    • DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2023
    • Wudong ShanGuangdong Province
    • ELEVATION1000 METERS
    • WulongTea Varietal

    This Old Tree Dancong is picked from tree stock over one hundred years old. These trees are allowed to grow wild on the mountainside, and are only picked once a year in small quantities to allow the trees to continue growing. The deeper roots take up more minerals and the long history of the tree means that as a fighter, the plant has produced more polyphenols to fend off threats than cultivated plants, giving it a richer more complex flavor as a result. Master Huang leans on over fifty years of nationally-recognized and awarded work in tea to direct his sons in hand-finishing this limited harvest tea.

  • true
    80
    cardamom rolls
    true
    70
    lingonberry
    true
    65
    basil, nutmeg
    true
    70
    rose
    false
    true
    deep, mineral-laden

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - cardamom rolls
    • fruit - lingonberry
    • spice - basil, nutmeg
    • floral - rose
    • texture - deep, mineral-laden

Huang Ruiguang also recommends

  • 'An accomplished technical master of tea, Huang Rui Guang is affectionately called a ‘modern tea sage’ by many. He likes to say that one love is enough in life, and his is tea. This excerpt is an attempt to portray a small piece of one man’s contributions to and love of tea'

  • 5-10
    6-8
    208
    20 seconds
    10
    10
    6
    208
    6 seconds
    4
    5
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5-10 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 208° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    10 g.6 ozuse 208° watersteep 6 seconds
    add 4 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    5 g.12
    oz.
    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours
    add ice & enjoy

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