Wudong Mountain Reserve (Dancong Sampler)
This is an exciting new collection we are proud to offer this year: pure-origin, core-region Wudong Mountain Dancong Oolong. Ever since we first met Wen Zitong a few years back, we have been eager to share his Wudong Dancong teas and are continually delighted to be able to drink and offer these mineral sweet old-tree teas. Wudong (meaning Dark Soil) is a mountain in the Phoenix range outside of Chaozhou with distinctive volcanic soil and a lot of rocky boulders dotting the landscape. This mountain is home of the first dancong oolong bushes, and its cliffs have seen almost a thousand years of tea-making traditions. The young maker Wen Zitong has a gift for tea processing, and all of these teas are carefully crafted by his skillful hands. We visit each spring with him on his mountain home in the Wudong village and always sample a lot of Wudong dancong, as a result, we can whole-heartedly say that the teas Wen Zitong makes are truly a cut above the rest; thus, we have decided to sourc