Zi Mei Gui, or “Purple Rose” is part of the Li Family’s commitment to cultivating rare and off-the-beaten-track varietals to preserve biodiversity within the Wuyishan Ecological Preserve and to share with the students at the Yangxian Tea Institute as part of their tasting courses. Thanks to a long-standing relationship, we are lucky enough to bring in teas like this on a very small scale. Zi Mei Gui is appropriately full of notes of rose, along with persimmon, apple, sandalwood and toffee, with a bright juicy texture.