Tagged: da hong pao

Da Hong Pao's Closest Relative Is a Green Tea

Wuyi's Four Famous Bushes are sold and tasted as a family. Chloroplast sequencing of five classical Wuyi cultivars found no such cluster, and Da Hong Pao's own nearest relative on the tree is Longjing, a green tea from a different province.

No one has legally picked a Da Hong Pao mother tree since 2006

The six original Da Hong Pao mother bushes have not been legally picked since 2006, so every bag sold under that name since is a cutting-propagated stand-in, priced against an original that left the market for good.

Yancha, Wuyi Rock Tea

Yancha is the oxidized, charcoal-fired oolong of the Wuyi cliffs, defined by the mineral yan yun and sorted by the state into five official categories. The canonical account of what it is, how it is classified and graded, how it is made, and the documented history from Tang-dynasty tribute leaf to today's regulation.