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2024 Wild Laoshan Mulberry Leaf

2024 Wild Laoshan Mulberry Leaf

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Mulberry leaf finished like
classic Laoshan Green
Caffeine-free wild-foraged herbal tea defying genre with a green tea rolling and firing process to bring out notes of banana chups, cornbread, allspice and vanilla.
Spring 2024 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
Mulberry leaf finished like
classic Laoshan Green
Caffeine-free wild-foraged herbal tea defying genre with a green tea rolling and firing process to bring out notes of banana chups, cornbread, allspice and vanilla.
Spring 2024 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
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Crafted By the He Family

Pioneers and community leaders, the He Family is dedicated to making a name for their stunningly smooth, malty, rich teas cultivated in China’s coldest, northernmost growing region.
 
This herbal tea is foraged from Laoshan's wild Lu mulberry trees, carefully hand-finished by the He Family in their workshop just like their classic Laoshan green teas.
    • DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2024
    • Laoshan VillageShandong Province
    • ELEVATION500-600 M
    • Morus multicaulisTea Varietal

    The He Family is continuing their tradition again this year of wild-foraging caffeine-free native Laoshan herbs and using their expertise at green tea processing to finish the leaves like a traditional green tea. While Shandong native Lu mulberry leaf would normally be simply air-dried for use in medicinal tea, the He Family has applied withering, heat-fixing, curling and tumble-drying to bring out much richer and more subtle flavor through their craft. We are excited to share the He Family's herbal teas once again this spring season, and to offer a look at the flavor of Laoshan from another plant entirely different from camellia sinensis!

  • true
    100
    banana chips
    true
    90
    cornbread
    true
    80
    vanilla
    true
    70
    cinnamon, allspice
    true
    thick and creamy

    Tasting Profile

    • fruit - banana chips
    • savory - cornbread
    • floral - vanilla
    • spice - cinnamon, allspice
    • texture - thick and creamy

The He Family also recommends:

  1. 2024 Autumn Laoshan Black
    2024 Autumn Laoshan Black

    The He Family’s Most Popular Tea. This cool autumn season harvest black tea is packed with flavor and aromatics, fully oxidized and roasted to achieve the iconic malty, chocolatey, honeyed Laoshan Black flavor.
  2. 2024 Autumn Laoshan Roasted Oolong
    2024 Autumn Laoshan Roasted Oolong
    Laoshan Roasted Oolong is an exciting experimental tea, applying traditional Southern Chinese yaoqing technique, an eight hour labor-intensive step, on top of slow careful roasting and curling, to produce a complex and nuanced tea that is distinctly Northern, and distinctly new. It takes the He Family an entire day to produce just a few kilos of this special tea, but the results are worth it. Yaoqing finishing gives deep fruit and floral undertones to the He Family’s trademark chocolate and malty base flavors. The careful kneading and rolling also brings out a beautiful, pure expression of the minerality of the soil and the water.
  3. 2024 Autumn Laoshan Biluochun
    2024 Autumn Laoshan Biluochun

    This is the He Family’s iconic loose leaf green tea: organic farming, curled leaves that dance in the cup, all carefully hand-finished for rich creamy flavor. Delicate hand-picked buds and leaves are withered in bamboo baskets, and carefully hand curled and rolled under low heat to form beautiful long twists that unfold gracefully in a glass teapot or tumbler. The fresh and delicate leaf material is the first new growth of the cool autumn season as the weather starts turning and the mornings and nights are misty again. 

  • 'When humans first started drinking real tea, it rocked our word.The tea plant seemed magical. But what if tea is not the only plant out there that does incredible things when finished with craft and brewed up right?'

  • 5
    6-8
    175
    20 seconds
    10
    5
    6
    175
    8 seconds
    4
    5
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.    use 175° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 175° watersteep 8 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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