Anhui Wild Foraged Green

• Harvest: Spring 2024
• Oxidation: Unoxidized
• Production: Wok Fired
• Farming: Traditional Farming

Wild old tea bushes are scattered throughout in the mountains of Jin Zhai, Anhui, China, a series of deep, pristine, remote mountains with fewer than 100 households in small villages throughout. Here, the villagers forage from these wild tea bushes to make a specialty green tea without fanfare, only for the prestige of gift-giving to their local government officials. Foraging is labor intensive, and the villagers have to traverse through deep woods and bushes strewn far and wide to find enough tea buds to make even a small batch. We commissioned a batch for our American audience to taste the difference in wild, uncultivated tea nourished only by the sun and morning dew.

In 2022 it was only available for a few months before going out of stock in September.

Steeping Guidelines:

• 5g or 2Tbsp | 8oz. @ 175˚F | 45 seconds
• May be re-steeped multiple times.
• Use a glass or porcelain teapot.
• Drain completely and serve.