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2023 Anxi Ba Xian

2023 Anxi Ba Xian

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Experimental Oolong
From Untended Trees
Best known as Fenghuang Dancong, these unique plants gifted by Huang Ruiguang grow tall + untended in Master Zhang's fields. Notes of elderflower, juniper, pine, and sticky rice with a powerfully cooling 'Yun' aftertaste.
Spring 2023 ♦ Anxi
Experimental Oolong
From Untended Trees
Best known as Fenghuang Dancong, these unique plants gifted by Huang Ruiguang grow tall + untended in Master Zhang's fields. Notes of elderflower, juniper, pine, and sticky rice with a powerfully cooling 'Yun' aftertaste.
Spring 2023 ♦ Anxi
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Crafted by Master Zhang

Environmentalist and award-winning craftsman, Master Zhang is committed to pioneering low-impact tea farming that replenished natural forests on his high elevation Anxi mountain plot.
 
Master Zhang devotes his energy to introducing rare varietals of tea to increase biodiversity and researching ancient finishing techniques to make rich, aromatic oolong unlike anything else in the world.
    • DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2023
    • Daping VillageAnxi, Fujian
    • ELEVATION1000 m
    • Ba XianTea Varietal

    Ba Xian is a rare cultivar pioneered from old rootstock in Fenghuang, Guangdong that yields beautiful textural depth, lingering sparkling complexity and rich aromatics given the right soil conditions and expert craftsmanship. Master Zhang is a colleague of famous Dancong pioneer Huang Ruiguang, and was able to transplant several old Ba Xian plants from Wudongshan to his own fields above Daping in Anxi. These plants have been left mostly unpicked and untrimmed for years, giving them a wild appearance. Master Zhang has picked a limited quantity of his Ba Xian to share. The result is packed with deep minerality, “yun” and creamy florals - a powerful and commanding tea.

  • true
    75
    sticky rice
    true
    85
    pine, rosemary
    true
    70
    goji, juniper
    true
    70
    elderflower
    true
    powerfully cooling yun

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - sticky rice
    • spice - pine, rosemary
    • fruit - goji, juniper
    • floral - elderflower
    • texture - powerfully cooling yun


Zhang Rongde also recommends:

  • 'The process of making oolong is bringing the tea back and forth between withered and alive... the process of bringing it back from the brink eliminates bitterness and astringency.'

  • 5
    6-8
    212
    30 seconds
    15-30
    5
    5
    212
    10 seconds
    3
    5
    12
    212
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 212° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 15-30 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.5 ozuse 212° watersteep 10 seconds
    add 3 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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