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2023 Gua Zi Jin Wuyi Oolong

2023 Gua Zi Jin Wuyi Oolong

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Rich, Toasty & Savory
Rare Cultivar Wuyi Oolong
The Li Family cultivates a small grove of Gua Zi Jin on their beautiful plot within the Wuyishan National Park. Notes of pumpkin seed, guava, osmanthus honey, nutmeg and a thick rich texture
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Rich, Toasty & Savory
Rare Cultivar Wuyi Oolong
The Li Family cultivates a small grove of Gua Zi Jin on their beautiful plot within the Wuyishan National Park. Notes of pumpkin seed, guava, osmanthus honey, nutmeg and a thick rich texture
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
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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
    • Gua Zi JinTea Varietal

    This beautiful oolong smells like roasted pumpkin and semolina right out of the bag. Deep smoldering spice compliments the sweet pumpkin, along with notes of deep pomegranate. Through multiple infusions, the tea remains tightly composed, bright and sunny. As the aftertaste builds up, you can taste the beautiful stoney minerality of Wuyishan and the Li Family’s rocky soil.

  • true
    95
    toasted pumpkin seed
    true
    70
    nutmeg, clove
    true
    60
    guava
    true
    55
    osmanthus honey
    true
    thick, rocky

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - toasted pumpkin seed
    • spice - nutmeg, clove
    • fruit - guava
    • floral - osmanthus honey
    • texture - thick, rocky

the Li Family also recommends:

  1. 2023 Bai Ji Guan
    2023 Bai Ji Guan
    Bai Ji Guan is a rare and unique varietal in Wuyi. The Li Family cultivates a small amount of Bai Ji Guan on their mountainside plot. This extremely light, beautiful, almost Dancong-like tea is full of the mineral notes that define Wuyi. It is thick and packed with unique vegetal undertones and florals. The Li Family's careful cultivation and roasting means gorgeous giant light-colored leaves and a bright crisp brew.
  2. 2023 Bai Rui Xiang
    2023 Bai Rui Xiang
    The Bai Rui is the Winter Daphne, a flower native to China with an intensely sweet fruity aroma. This rich incense-forward varietial shares those heady perfumed overtones with its namesake, along with the rare and sought-after yun xiang, the cooling tingling sensation that build up in the back of the throat. The Li Family finishes their Bai Rui Xiang as a ‘reserve’ quality tea, using a meticulous twelve hour hand-firing to bring out deep complexity. The minerality of the family’s volcanic rocky mountainside plot comes through as a textural foundation for the spices to build on, resulting in a balanced, beautifully structured Wuyi Oolong.
  3. 2023 Chun Lan Wuyi Oolong
    2023 Chun Lan Wuyi Oolong
    This extremely limited offering is crafted from the Chun Lan varietal, rarely seen outside of Wuyishan. It was originally selected by Li Xiangxi as a reserve tea to share with our CSA-style tea club members. Hand-fired Chun Lan combines all the big orchid flavor of Qilan with incense spice and cooling yun. The "Yun" sensation in this tea builds with each infusion over time. After several steepings, this Yun begins to dominate as a lingering physical sensation that strengthens the growing mineral texture and flavor.

  • 'When you make tea, the craftsman has to sense that the tea is great'

  • 5
    6-8
    205
    12 seconds
    8
    7
    6
    205
    5 seconds
    3
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.    use 205° watersteep 12 secondsresteep many times
    add 8 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    7 g.6 ozuse 205° 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

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