Taishan Wild Grown White Cloud Tea | 台山野生白雲茶

In Taishan, the wild grown White Cloud Tea has been revered by its local people since the Ming dynasty. Traditionally harvested in a narrow 2-month period starting before and after the Qingming festival, the White Cloud Tea is found deep in the forests of the Gudou Mountain Range. The tea’s name can be attributed to its growth at high elevations where it thrives under a constant shroud of fog and cloud. With each tree growing far away from the next, only the most experienced tea pickers know where to find the plant and very few dare to venture off-road. For this reason, very small batches of the tea are produced each year and White Cloud tea remains relatively unknown in the tea world with production and consumption of the rare tea mostly limited to the Taishanese people. In the early 2000’s, the White Cloud tea was on the brink of disappearance. Knowledge of cultivating the tea was lost as experienced tea pickers retired or passed away and few people  from the next generation were kee