标签： Cultivar Study
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Rou Gui (肉桂) — The Horse and the Flower
The twelfth and final Wuyi benchmark: Rou Gui’s exceptional rock minerality, wood and char evolve into floral-honey sweetness and a soft, dew-like finish across nine infusions.
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Rui Xiang (瑞香) — The Pear Tree and the Birds
Rui Xiang unfolds through pronounced Wuyi rock minerality, ripe and honeyed pear, delicate florals, creamy texture and persistent returning sweetness across eight patient infusions.
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Qi Lan (奇兰) — The Rock Beneath the Setting Sun
A composed Qi Lan journey of vivid rock minerality, passionfruit, silky mouthfeel and lingering sweetness, told through a butterfly resting beneath the setting sun.
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The Forest of Mist and the Flower: Jin Mudan (金牡丹)
A fourteen-infusion Jin Mudan journey through Wuyi mist, ancient forest and persistent rock minerality, culminating in sweet wood and a single white flower.
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Huang Guanyin (黄观音) Drinking from the Ancient Tree
A ten-infusion study of Huang Guanyin Wuyi Rock Tea, defined by ancient-tree imagery, mineral depth, wood, floral sweetness, and an exceptionally silky mouthfeel.
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Completing the Four Great Famous Bushes (四大名丛): My First Benchmark Journey into Wuyi Rock Tea
Completing my first benchmark journey through Wuyi Rock Tea’s Four Great Famous Bushes: Da Hong Pao, Tie Luo Han, Bai Ji Guan and Shui Jin Gui.
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Turtle of the Island Pool — Shui Jin Gui (水金龟)
A steady, deeply mineral Wuyi Rock Tea shaped by stone, clay, wood and gentle sweetness across ten contemplative infusions.
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Bai Ji Guan (白鸡冠): Beyond the White Walls
A nine-infusion tasting of Bai Ji Guan (白鸡冠), exploring honeyed minerality, silky mouthfeel, gentle roast and the quiet landscape this Wuyi Rock Tea revealed.
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A Journey Through Wuyi Rock Tea
A July and August journey through the cultivars, character, minerality and aging potential of Wuyi Rock Tea.