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2024 Qing Xiang Wulong Revival

2024 Qing Xiang Wulong Revival

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Mineral-driven
ancient-style oolong
Ben Shan varietal finished "greener" in a long-lost oolong style with notes of eucalyptusosmanthus, buttercream, and banana.
Spring 2024 ♦ Qing Xiang Finish
Mineral-driven
ancient-style oolong
Ben Shan varietal finished "greener" in a long-lost oolong style with notes of eucalyptusosmanthus, buttercream, and banana.
Spring 2024 ♦ Qing Xiang Finish
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Carfted By Master Zhang

Environmentalist and award-winning craftsman, Master Zhang is committed to pioneering low-impact tea farming that replenishes 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 2024
    • Daping VillageAnxi, Fujian
    • ELEVATION1000 m
    • Ben ShanTea Varietal

    This beautiful experimental tea from Master Zhang brings together the deep complexity and lingering aftertaste of his full day turning and fluffing process required for Revival style, and the luscious sweet floral aromatics of Ben Shan varietal. Master Zhang’s Ben Shan bushes were planted by his grandparents on some of the highest slopes of the family’s mountain plot above Daping Village. Their deep roots take in water from a sweet mountain spring running under the rocky soil, bringing big texture and lingering sweetness to compliment the intensive finishing. The “dragonfly” shape unfolds beautifully in a gaiwan over many steepings.

  • true
    85
    graham cracker, buttercream
    true
    60
    eucalyptus
    true
    70
    osmanthus
    true
    65
    banana
    false
    true
    rich, creamy

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - graham cracker, buttercream
    • spice - eucalyptus
    • floral - osmanthus
    • fruit - banana
    • texture - rich, creamy


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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