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Black

Oolong

Yunnan Spring Buds
Super-fine Grade
2012 Pre-Qing Ming

Yunnan Province, China
Basket-fired
Bud-only pluck with a slight twist
Soft, chestnut-like, smooth flavor
Light, fresh aroma
Clear liquor tending towards silvery-grey

4 oz	8 oz	16 oz
17.50 Buy	35.00 Buy	70.00 Buy

Our just-arrived 2012 harvest Yunnan Spring Buds is an extremely well-made tea that shows a careful pluck and experienced manufacture. It is a light-tasting, early spring green tea, yet it is flavorsome and has good mouth-feel. Yunnan Spring Buds is a delightfully smooth and rich tea for the tea enthusiast who prefers a completely non-astringent cup. If one tends to ‘wander’ while steeping one’s tea, this is a perfect choice, as it is very difficult to make this tea become astringent or over-steeped. It is a real ‘go-to’ tea for many different tea-drinking times and preferences.

The color of Yunnan Spring Buds’ dry leaf is suggestive of a small-bud white tea; however, when observing the exquisitely-formed shape that the buds have assumed during manufacture one sees that the tea is clearly a green tea. Upon steeping, of course, it is clearly a green tea, as it has the perfect flavor profile of a gentle green, and none of the oxidized flavor of a bud-only white tea. Looking at the exquisite buds when re-hydrated they are such perfect little green tea buds – a wonderful example of the tea artist’s craft.

Our new 2012 Yunnan Spring Buds tea has a unique core flavor that results from the special nature of the indigenous tea bushes that grow in southwestern Yunnan Province.

Use 2 teaspoons (2 - 3 grams) per 6 oz of water
Steep 2-3 infusions at 2 minutes each.
Water temperature should be 170˚ - 180˚ F