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Aged Old Tree Wuyi Gongfu Black

Aged Old Tree Wuyi Gongfu Black

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Stunning, wild black tea
aged since 2018
Picked from a wild, mossy old tree grove and carefully aged, this tea shows off all the cooling foresty rocky complexity of Wuyishan with notes of chocolate, camphor, elderberry, clover and deep incense.
Spring 2018 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Stunning, wild black tea
aged since 2018
Picked from a wild, mossy old tree grove and carefully aged, this tea shows off all the cooling foresty rocky complexity of Wuyishan with notes of chocolate, camphor, elderberry, clover and deep incense.
Spring 2018 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
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Crafted By the Li Family

Hand-picked and traditionally hand-finished within the true Wuyishan Ecological Preserve on forested biodiverse, rocky, mountainous land for distinct Wuyi minerality.
 
The Li Family is an award-winning, highly respected force for sustainability, hand-firing craft, rare varietal preservation, and tea education in Wuyishan.
    • DATE OF PICKINGMay 2018
    • Wuyishan Ecological PreserveWuyishan, Fujian
    • ELEVATION600 METERS
    • Xingcun XiaozhongTea Varietal

    Under careful airtight conditions, Wuyi teas that are particularly rich and packed with minerality can age into deeper, more complex teas. Li Xiangxi’s personal favorite is to use her family's old tree Wuyi Gongfu Black, picked from trees approaching one hundred years of age. The Old Tree Wuyi Black gains more foresty notes and deep cooling qualities on the palette that make it thrilling to sip. 

    This is not a yearly release- this is a special must-try one-off from Li Xiangxi. 

    Li Xiangxi has been aging this Old Tree Wuyi Black tea since 2018, and she kindly shared more than half of what is left of her personal reserve.

  • true
    90
    chocolate, toasted pistachio
    true
    100
    camphor, nutmeg, cedar
    true
    60
    elderberry
    true
    60
    lotus, clover
    true
    volcanic rock, smoldering incense

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - chocolate, toasted pistachio
    • spice - camphor, nutmeg, cedar
    • fruit - elderberry
    • floral - lotus, clover
    • texture - volcanic rock, smoldering incense

the Li Family also recommends:

  1. 2023 Jin Jun Mei
    2023 Jin Jun Mei
    Jin Jun Mei Wuyi black tea is one of the most labor intensive and demanding teas to produce. Fine Jin Jun Mei is made exclusively from tiny spring buds, and requires thousands and thousands of hand-picked golden buds to make a single pound of finished tea. The result is a downy tea with a thick full texture, and a beautiful elegance. Li Xiangxi's spring-fed tea grows out of rocky, sandy soil, yielding a rich mineral flavor true to Wuyishan's unique terroir.
  2. 2023 Bai Rui Xiang Wuyi Black Tea
    2023 Bai Rui Xiang Wuyi Black Tea
    Bai Rui Xiang varietal is named after the Winter Daphne, a heady aromatic flower native to China. Traditionally finished as an oolong, this tea always has a rich nuanced undercurrent of incense spice and cooling tingling minerality. This season, the Li Family saved a small portion of this reserve harvest Bai Rui Xiang to finish as a black tea using old-school sun-oxidation in bamboo baskets at the family workshop in Tongmu. The result is an incredibly complex black tea where the intense florals of the oolong finish take a back seat to the cooling tingling textural excitement this tea has to offer, along for a rich spiced brew full of Wuyi’s famous minerality.
  3. Hua Xiang Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong
    Hua Xiang Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong
    While Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is usually smoked, the same leaf material and finishing technique can be used without the final smoking step. Hua Xiang means floral fragrance, referring to the natural but subtle floral notes in Xingcun Xiaozhong varietal that are brought out through the Li Family’s expert hand-processing. When smaller leaf material mixed with delicate buds is used, rich vanilla undertones can develop, accenting the savory nutty flavors. The main difference between this tea and a classic Wuyi Gongfu Black is that Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is not necessarily curled and twisted as thoroughly, giving it a more open structure suitable for incorporating that smaller bud and leaf mixture that wouldn’t work in the tight twists of Wuyi Gongfu Black, but both are very traditional calls back to the very earliest black teas in the world.

  • 'With sweet floral notes of rose, saffron, and marigold paired with cozy rosewood, savory cream, and wuyi minerality, it's no wonder this tea has become a fast favorite! The woody texture reminds us of sweet incense, and even long steepings produce sweet cups without astringency'

  • 4
    6
    208
    15 seconds
    10
    5
    5
    208
    5 seconds
    3
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6
    oz.    use 208° watersteep 15 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.5 ozuse 208° watersteep 5 seconds
    add 3 sec. per steeping    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    4 g.12
    oz.    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours    add ice & enjoy

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