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2025 High Elevation Huang Zhi Xiang

2025 High Elevation Huang Zhi Xiang

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Crisp + Juicy Reserve
High-Elevation Dancong
Huang Zhi Xiang or “orange blossom fragrance” varietal from old tea trees high on Wudongshan. Hand-finished to bring out powerful textural notes of juniper, gardenia and candied citron.
Spring 2025 ♦ Wudongshan, Guangdong
Crisp + Juicy Reserve
High-Elevation Dancong
Huang Zhi Xiang or “orange blossom fragrance” varietal from old tea trees high on Wudongshan. Hand-finished to bring out powerful textural notes of juniper, gardenia and candied citron.
Spring 2025 ♦ Wudongshan, Guangdong
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Crafted by the Huang Family

Recognized by Chaozhou as an 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 2025
    • Wudong ShanGuangdong Province
    • ELEVATION1000 METERS
    • Huang Zhi XiangTea Varietal

    This Huang Zhi Xiang Dancong is picked from the Huang Family's favorite high-elevation plot in Wudongshan from older tree stock and meticulously hand finished by Master Huang's sons over 24 hours to bring out the deep, almost electrifying aromatics. Huang Zhi Xiang is an incredibly rich spiced varietal with natural cooling notes that come through with striking intensity with the perfect microclimate, careful hand-picking, and 24+ hour continuous hand processing and finishing. Only a few kilos are harvested every year, and we are excited for the privilege to share.

  • true
    100
    orange blossom, candied citron
    true
    100
    saffron, gardenia
    true
    100
    juniper, rosemary
    true
    50
    whipped cream, tres leches
    true
    cooling, tingling, electrical

    Tasting Profile

    • fruit - orange blossom, candied citron
    • floral - saffron, gardenia
    • spice - juniper, rosemary
    • savory - whipped cream, tres leches
    • texture - cooling, tingling, electrical

the Huang Family also recommends:

  1. 2025 Ba Xian Dancong
    2025 Ba Xian Dancong
    八仙 or Ba Xian references the eight Taoist immortals, a truly evocative name for a truly unique tea. Huang Ruiguang says that originally, there were eight trees growing next to each other, each with a different flavor and appearance, like the Taoist Immortals. Today, five of the eight original trees still remain. Huang Ruiguang’s tree has one of the most perfectly situated east-facing high elevation slopes on Wudongshan, earned for a lifetime of contribution to Fenghuang as an agricultural pioneer and master taster. His Ba Xian Dancong is lush and juicy, full of tropical flower and fruit flavors, coaxed out over 24 hours of intense hand processing.
  2. 2025 Xing Ren Xiang Dancong
    2025 Xing Ren Xiang Dancong

    Xing Ren Xiang, or Almond Aroma is a uniquely savory nut-forward varietal that the Huang Family picks once a year from single bushes cultivated in Wudongshan. These bushes are not pruned back and picked sparingly to encourage deeper roots and more robust flavor year after year. The Huang Family’s meticulous hand processing yields a distinct roasted almond flavor, with notes of cooling pine.
  3. 2025 Old Tree Wulong Dancong
    2025 Old Tree Wulong Dancong
    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.

  • '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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