We are so excited to finally be representing such a talented family in world-famous Qimen after a ten year search for the right partners. The Cheng family takes their work seriously and the proof is in the tea. Their classic Qimen is packed with sweet, honeyed notes, floral complexity and beautiful malty undertones thanks to the careful picking and slow, small-batch hand-finishing process that Master Cheng uses.

The famous Huangshan Maofeng is all about beautiful, perfect buds that dance in the teapot like silver needle white tea or Dragonwell. The Cheng Family picks their early spring buds on their high elevation mountain plot near Qimen and Huangshan entirely by hand to preserve their perfect shape, and works to quickly finish the buds with minimal heat and withering time, locking in fresh flavor and deep minerality that shows off the textural complexity of one of the finest green teas in the world.

This special grade offering from the Cheng Family is actually a newer style of tea, first pioneered in the 1990’s for its floral aromatics. Huang Shan Mao Jian takes advantage of the mountain’s big temperature swings and the biodiverse landscape for a brew that has all the clean crisp elegance you’d expect in a buddy tea, but with a deeper, more cooling complexity that reflects the character of the mountain itself. While this may be one of their most labor intensive teas, the Cheng Family is proud of the deep rich flavor and texture with notes of peony, semolina, and cardamom.