Verdant Tea

  • Sign In
Menu
Toggle Nav
My Cart 0
Search

🎁 Cyber Monday is Pu'er Monday! Save 25% on ALL Pu'er | Earn $25 Tea Cash on orders $100+ today only >>

🎁 Shop Small Farmer Sunday SALES | Double Savings with $25 Tea Cash on orders $100+

🎁 Shop Black Friday Weekend SALES + Fresh Tieguanyin | Double Savings with $25 Tea Cash on orders $100+

🎁 Shop Black Friday SALES + All New Arrivals | Double Savings with $25 Tea Cash on Orders $100+

✨ Shop the Holiday Gift Guide: 20% off Tea Ware, samplers, and dozens of new arrivals >>

Save and explore with 20% off tea sets and tasting kits >>

2023 Full Roast Big Red Robe

2023 Full Roast Big Red Robe

banner
Wuyi's Most Famous Tea
with a deep finish
The Li Family treats their reserve-level Big Red Robe to dozens of hours of meticulous hand-firing for a rich, intense complexity. Notes of juniper, brown sugar, hibiscus, and rosewood.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Wuyi's Most Famous Tea
with a deep finish
The Li Family treats their reserve-level Big Red Robe to dozens of hours of meticulous hand-firing for a rich, intense complexity. Notes of juniper, brown sugar, hibiscus, and rosewood.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Loading...

Crafted By the Li Family

Hand-picked and traditionally hand-finished within the true Wuyishan Ecological Preserve on forested biodiverse, rocky, mountainous land for distinct Wuyi minerality.
 
The Li Family is an award-winning, highly respected force for sustainability, hand-firing craft, rare varietal preservation, and tea education in Wuyishan.
    • DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2023
    • Wuyishan Ecological PreserveWuyishan, Fujian
    • ELEVATION600 METERS
    • Qi DanTea Varietal

    This Qidan varietal was picked by the Li Family on their hillside plot within the Wuyishan Ecological Preserve. After a 24 hour withering and oxidizing process, this tea was hand-fired over another 16 hours and allowed to rest a full month before release. The result is an incredibly sweet and dessert-like tea with buttery, sticky pudding qualities brought out by the caramelization of sugars. The sweetness reveals cinnamon spice and warm dark fruit. 

  • true
    90
    rosewood
    true
    90
    brown sugar, cinnamon rolls
    true
    60
    rosehips, hibiscus
    true
    90
    juniper, sandalwood
    true
    deep, cooling, spice

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - rosewood
    • savory - brown sugar, cinnamon rolls
    • fruit - rosehips, hibiscus
    • spice - juniper, sandalwood
    • texture - deep, cooling, spice

the Li Family also recommends:

  1. 2023 Dark Roast Ban Tian Yao
    2023 Dark Roast Ban Tian Yao
    After a 24 hour withering and oxidizing process, this tea was hand-fired over another 16 hours, rested, and re-fired five times, then allowed to rest a full month before release. Why does Mr. Li choose to invest so much hand labor into this tea? The weather for this Ban Tian Yao harvest came together so perfectly with the inherent fruity flavors of the varietal that he was confident that he could coax out deep spiced complexity to complement the fruity notes for a true reserve offering. The result is spectacular; not only is this the most nuanced harvest we have tasted, but the fig cake richness is actually tempered by a piney cooling yun sensation, rounding this out as a powerful and commanding tea.
  2. 2023 Dark Roast Shui Xian
    2023 Dark Roast Shui Xian

    Shui Xian is named after the Narcissus flower (or Daffodil), and the dark roast on this Shui Xian brings out beautiful florals in contrast with dark forest and wood notes. Mr. Li hand-fired this batch of Shui Xian to give its cooling texture even more sparkling, tingling intensity. Shui Xian varietal is known for its foresty woody flavors and deep lingering texture. The Li Family’s biodiverse forested tea gardens within the Wuyi Ecological Preserve help play up the varietals natural complexity.
  3. Ten Yr. Aged Full Roast Shui Xian
    Ten Yr. Aged Full Roast Shui Xian
    Originally picked in 2007, this Shui Xian Wuyi Oolong has been carefully re-roasted and rested each year for a decade. The aging and careful roasting has brought out beautiful complexity in this tea, pairing Shui Xian's compelling texture with the mineral sweetness and mustiness of age. Sweet savory and salty elements keep the brew cozy and compelling, while sweet florals and intoxicating, evocative aroma make us nostalgic for the Li Family's biodiverse tea groves. This unique selection is not to be missed.

  • 'The emperor sent the symbolic red robes of nobility to the farmer who saved his wife, granting him land and status. In gratitude, the farmer named the tea Big Red Robe, and continued to climb the cliff each year to pick tea for the empress to remind her of their shared home in the Wuyi Mountains.'

  • 5
    6-8
    208
    20 seconds
    10
    7
    6
    208
    5 seconds
    3
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

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

    Gongfu

    7 g.6 ozuse 208° watersteep 5 seconds
    add 3 sec. per steeping    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

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

Product Photo Gallery

Copyright © 2013-present Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.