A rare and hard to find treasure from the 90s

to follow the hint by brewing within the Yixing clay a tea from the local Guangdong province may well connect the dots separated by some thousand kilometers away

and its simplicity leaves room for the tea’s aroma and flavor to take center stage

and this tea is a perfect representative

nuanced green tea

bishiyan rougui oolong_yancha A rare and hard toRich and punchy, this Rougui will hit the spot for those with a craving for that high fire, charcoal y yan cha flavor, with a dark liquor and a nose full of cacao. And yet the producer has managed to avoid an acrid, over roasted character, the intense body with its namesake cassia bark note going down easy, and a slight tang, perhaps dried cherry, emerging to balance the chocolatey bitterness. Use to arouse a burgeoning appetite, or to quell one,