Tongmu is a beautiful protected region within the Wuyi Ecological Preserve known for its rocky volcanic slopes. Tea grows wild from seed in cracks between rocks, and the LI Family scales the hillsides to forage these special teas every spring.
These fully wild teas are self-propogated from seed and left untended throughout the year.
Wild Tongmu Jin Jun Mei is an experience unlike any other black tea. This is a very quiet and very contemplative tasting experience. Li Xiangxi and he[...]
Wild Tongmu Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is picked one bud at a time, entirely by hand, and entirely by native residents living within the reserve. The tea p[...]
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These varietal-specific tea trees were planted generations ago, but allowed to grow without trimming or intervention, creating a mossy biodiverse ecosystem and towering tea plants with deep roots for complex and stunning teas.
These old growth wild arbor teas were intentionally planted but left untended throughout the year.
The unique flavors of Old Tree Wuyi Gongfu Black comes in part from mosses and competing vegetation that grow naturally on and around the old and unte[...]
This tea is picked from trees between sixty and over a hundred years old. These trees are left mostly untended except for annual careful hand harve[...]
The Li family’s position as community leaders and environmental stewards gives them the special privilege to pick from an old wild grove of Shui Xia[...]
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The He Family has been wild-foraging on the Daoist holy mountain of Laoshan for generations to prepare traditional Chinese medicine. Recently, they have started finishing herbal leaves using masterful green tea craft.
These wild foraged herbal teas are self-propogated from seed and grow untended across Laoshan.
A member of the Solanaceae family, the caffeine-free Goji berry plant (Lycium barbarum) grows wild across Northern China - including on the slopes of [...]
Gan Zao Ye (Wild Jujube) is a naturally caffeine-free herbal tea that grows unmanaged and wild on the slopes of Laoshan. The He family forages a li[...]
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White tea has been growing on the mountains above Wuyangcun for hundreds of years. With white tea becoming popular across the world, Mr. Wu stepped in to protect these groves, even as other families tear out old tea trees for higher yield bushes.
These old growth wild arbor teas were intentionally planted but left untended for decades.
The Wu Family's oldest prized tea bushes growing among wild trees, flowers and bamboo are picked once in the extreme early spring for a bud-only ha[...]
Bai Hao Yin Zhen is picked entirely from early spring buds, with almost no leaf at all. The result is extremely sweet and thick, with a light flavo[...]
Bai Hao Yin Zhen is picked entirely from early spring buds, with almost no leaf at all. The result is extremely sweet and thick, with a light flavo[...]
The Wu Family's oldest prized tea bushes growing among wild trees, flowers and bamboo are picked once in the extreme early spring for a bud-only ha[...]
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Wudongshan is the terroir for fine Dancong. While many individual Dancong tea trees are ancient, they are varietal-specific. Huang Ruiguang keeps a grove of seed-propagated old-growth Dancong closer to true wild tea to express the unique flavor of Wudongshan.
This old growth wild arbor tea was intentionally propogated from seed and left untended throughout the year.
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 pic[...]
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Master Zhou works with the Li Family in the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative to advocate for environmental stewardship and conservation for the tea tress in Qianjiazhai. In the Mt. Ailao National Forest Preserve, tea grows as tall as trees with deep roots and stunning complexity, foraged and protected across generations.
These wildtea trees are self-propogated from seed and grow untended, enduring across centuries.
Qianjiazhai is home to some of the oldest tea trees in the world. Once again, we are extremely lucky in 2020 that we will be able to offer a single-tr[...]