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2025 Special Grade Laoshan Biluochun

2025 Special Grade Laoshan Biluochun

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2025 special harvest - only while supplies last!
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Special Da Tian
1st Picking Biluchion
Hand-twisted and hand-rolled for an iconic finish and intense complexity. The fresh 2025 harvest is coming soon and available for pre-order!
The Da Tian harvest is the first picking of the year after greenhouse covers come down. Sweet, rich and complex, this is Mr. He's favorite tea. Notes of tulsi, pine nut, osmanthus, mandarin orange and cardamom.
April 2025 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
ETA: May ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
Special Da Tian
1st Picking Biluchion
Hand-twisted and hand-rolled for an iconic finish and intense complexity. The fresh 2025 harvest is coming soon and available for pre-order!
The Da Tian harvest is the first picking of the year after greenhouse covers come down. Sweet, rich and complex, this is Mr. He's favorite tea. Notes of tulsi, pine nut, osmanthus, mandarin orange and cardamom.
April 2025 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
ETA: May ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
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SPRING 2025 PRE-ORDER

This spring 2025 pre-order tea from the He Family in Laoshan is arriving now and available to reserve on pre-order while supplies last.

This tea is expected to arriving now and shipping ASAP!

This spring 2025 pre-order tea from the He Family in Laoshan is now available to reserve on pre-order while supplies last.

This tea is expected to arrive in May. Orders containing this pre-order tea will wait to ship until all teas in your order have arrived. 

Crafted By the He Family

Grown using old-school organic farming techniques on the rocky foothills of Laoshan, protected by ocean mist and fed by sweet spring water.
 
Grown using old-school organic farming techniques on the rocky foothills of Laoshan, protected by ocean mist and fed by sweet spring water.
    • DATE OF PICKINGApril 2025
    • Laoshan VillageShandong Province
    • ELEVATIONsea level
    • longjing quntiTea Varietal

    Mr. He's pride and joy, this special and truly limited harvest is the very first picking of the year after the greenhouse shade coverings are removed, exposing the tea leaves to the first gentle sunlight of spring. The buds form slowly under the shade coverings over cold nights and cool days, building up sweet depth and rich texture, and then spend just a day or two exposed to the ocean mist and sun, taking on incredible complexity and textural depth. Only a few pounds are picked every year, and most years, we aren't able to secure a harvest at all. We are excited to get to share this beautiful 2025 special grade tea!

  • true
    55
    butter lettuce
    true
    65
    marshmallow, toasted pine nut
    true
    70
    osmanthus
    true
    60
    mandarin orange
    true
    55
    cardamom
    true
    silken, bright, mineral-laden

    Tasting Profile

    • vegetal - butter lettuce
    • savory - marshmallow, toasted pine nut
    • floral - osmanthus
    • fruit - mandarin orange
    • spice - cardamom
    • texture - silken, bright, mineral-laden

The He Family also recommends:

Spring 2025 Update from the Fields

Cold weather in Laoshan means smaller yields, and a long season of shade-grown covered green tea before the protective greenhouse coverings come down. 

A very mild spring with very little rainfall has made for particularly concentrated creamy textural green tea and black tea. Cool weather persisted longer than usual, which kept protective shaded coverings on through April. This meant slow growth, but particularly tender sweet buds.

Not only is He Qingqing busy helping her parents finish this spring's fresh tea, but she and her husband are also celebrating the arrival of their son Liu Mu-Mu, just a few months old and already helping with the fresh Flat Pressed Laoshan Green.

Congratulations to the He Family for a wonderful spring season!

He Changke works with fresh leaves
fresh picked Laoshan tea buds
fresh 2025 Laoshan tea leaves
making Reserve Laoshan Biluochun green
brewing fresh Laoshan green tea
spring 2025 Laoshan tea plants

photos courtesy of He Qingqing, March 2025

  • 'Thankfully 2019-2020 was a mild winter compared to the last two years, meaning that the plants in China’s northernmost tea growing region did not suffer frost damage. The He Family's plants have been able to recover, and this new recovery growth has been rich and tender, a boon for the He Family after so many difficult years.'

  • 4
    6-8
    175
    20 seconds
    10
    4
    6
    175
    10 seconds
    8
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 175° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 175° watersteep 10 seconds
    add 8 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

He Changke works with fresh leaves
fresh picked Laoshan tea buds
fresh 2025 Laoshan tea leaves
making Reserve Laoshan Biluochun green
brewing fresh Laoshan green tea
spring 2025 Laoshan tea plants

photos courtesy of He Qingqing, March 2025

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