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Our organic Golden Monkey is made in the traditional longer, black-leaf Fujian style with a healthy malty-side aroma. When we tasted this lot, wonderful cocoa and malt tastes were evident in the first steep. Using spring's tender leaves and buds, this black tea is naturally sweet and refreshing, with a taste that will linger. Note our lot offers a thicker, darker leaf profile with a smattering of golden bud. This tea has strength, will yield multiple steeps and will take milk and sugar.

Price: $16.50

Rare Lot # W

Grown on a small tea farm in the higher elevations of the mountains near Fuzhou, in Fujian Province, a tea maker and true "artisan of the leaf" processed the very aromatic and tasty Mei Zhan green-tea varietal in the traditional pan-fired Xan Bei Xiang style. His process creates green tea leaves in wonderful shades of deep-green to light-gray colors that cup to a clear liquor with complex, nuanced flavors and naturally sweet notes. This is a prized, slow growing varietal made with a leaf process that is "old school" and increasingly rare. His tea farm uses organic methods and his tea is delicious!

Price: $25.00

Available early in the spring and only for a matter of days, this "pre-rain" tea is made of unopened buds and then processed to a green tea. The tea is traditional to Fujian Province. Our lot is Pre-Qing Ming and grown high on the mountain giving the leaf a deep green color and distinct taste notes. Steeped, it offers a bright, savory aroma and a smooth, sweet taste.

Price: $27.50

Aromatic, large light-green leaves tinged with hues of red, have been lightly pressed into 10-gram cakes and offer yet another way to enjoy an oolong. Our Immortals Oolong is honey-sweet and light, it will linger in the mouth with a light flavor. As the cake unfolds and its large leaves and stems unfurl, the mass of leaf will yield multiple steeps. The cup liquor is clean, light-yellow, almost a shade of green. Tea has a light fruit note, lingers on the tongue. Each cake is wrapped in white paper, perfect for travel.

Price: $3.50

Jade Spring is the clarion announcing that the tea harvest is well underway. Grown in Fujian Province, it is a mix of leaf styles that exemplify the delicate art of Chinese tea making. The leaf has been well-preserved in processing - long, slender, light-green buds open, revealing beautiful oval-shaped, serrated leaves. Tender is the leaf and it will cup to a naturally sweet and light vegetal taste. This tea is true delight. Excellent served with food.

Price: $15.40

Jasmine Pearls is a delight to watch unfold as well as to drink. Early-picked green tea leaves are carefully rolled into small pearls with a white downy striping. Once rolled, the pearls wait until the jasmine flowers are harvested later in the summer. For a high-grade pearl such as ours, the flower petals are introduced and then removed after imparting their fragrance, a process that may be repeated up to seven times. Our supplier's family has been making jasmine teas for generations in Fujian Province and his skill is evident. This tea is exquisite, a sweet and delicate green redolent with fresh scent of jasmine.

Price: $22.00

Sourced in Fujian Province, this is a small leaf green tea that has been scented with Jasmine flowers. The scent is natural and not too strong giving the tea a soothing and pleasingly balanced cup. The green tea is high quality, the Jasmine flavourful, we think you will enjoy this tea. Good for everyday use. Steep at water temperature of 185 degrees for 2 minutes.

Price: $8.25

Fired in wicker baskets, this Fujian Province early spring green will cup to a round and sweet vegetal taste that hints of asparagus. Made of artfully curled, light-green leaves and a smattering of white buds this tea is an excellent example of China's fine spring green teas. In tasting, note the rich mouth taste and brief aftertaste. Then steep another cup!

Price: $26.40

A competition-grade, single-origin Tieguanyin oolong made in AnXi by a tea maker well-known for the superb quality of his teas. Classed as a clear and fragrant Tieguanyin, the leaves were fired briefly at low-temperature to ensure a fresh, green-color leaf with a very evident floral aroma. As the rolled leaves steep, they unfurl slowly and release lush, honey-colored liquor and an orchid-like flavor that will delight the palate and linger for some time. Lightly oxidized, uniformly large, the leaves are light-to-dark green. This oolong is rich and is good for many infusions as the leaves release complex flavors.

Price: $24.20

This Golden Monkey is made in the "Pang Yong Congou" style, a rare "family" of black teas that are produced in a village on the coast of Fujian Province. Tan Yang village is known for producing very high-grade, fragrant black teas, yet only a small portion of the tea produced here is actually made to black. Green has been the primary tea. Our "monkey" is a fine plucking, note the very delicate black leaf and gold buds. The taste is refined with nuanced with notes of malt and fruit.

Price: $22.00

A Fujian Province spring green made of small, dark green, rolled leaves with just a hint of white-downy coloration. Consumed primarily in the province, it is not well known and its taste is provincial . It well exemplifies the endless varieties and styles farmers are capable of making. This tea will cup to a deep yellow-green color, strong with hints of asparagus and some astringency along with the vegetal notes. If you enjoy a stronger green tea that puckers the mouth, these small pearls will deliver!

Price: $8.80

This lot of Silver Needle, made of plump Pre-Qing Ming spring buds, is grown in Zhenghe county and is traditionally processed. Plucked from the Zhenghe Da Bai tea varietal, it is masterfully worked to preserve its natural leaf shape. This tea is one for every tea drinker's collection. The bud is twinged with a greenish-gray hue and covered with the tender, downy hair giving it a velvety appearance. The liquor is soft yellow in color and delicate in flavor, savory with taste characteristics of melon and sweet apricot. It goes well most anytime and very well with fresh foods and desserts.

Price: $28.60

Tightly wound leaves characterize this Fujian Province, high-mountain varietal. Named for the occasional white snow-colored patches that spot the leaf, this tea is harvested early to capture a nuanced and sweet taste. Offers floral notes through its light-yellow liquor and it will linger in its aftertaste. Grown at a high elevation, when steeped long, it offers some astringency.

Price: $13.20

With the warming weather in the early harvest, a really sweet lot of this Mao Feng varietal will arrive in the marketplace. Its appearance is eye-catching, the fresh and fragrant green leaves give off a vegetal aroma that is confident and rich. A visual treat of wiry green, curled leaves, abundant white buds, this very natural looking tea offers much for the tea enthusiast. It cups to a rich green color and vegetal sweetness with hints of chestnut. It is a good value, drinkable all day and goes well with food.

Price: $9.90

An unusual, small-leaf Mao Feng varietal that is well-known in Fujian Province and virtually unknown outside of China. This tea is typically found in the market by early April. The leaves are light green in color and attractively curved. The taste is sweet, with a clean vegetal aroma. It is lighter, less vegetal in body than many green varietals and this makes it a pleasing everyday use tea. A good value given the high quality and workmanship of the leaf.

Price: $8.80

Named for the fact this tea will yield 3 fragrant cups from its sweet leaves. An elegantly shaped leaf offering a soft vegetal taste that gives way to a sweetness that will linger. Its leaves are slender, uniform in size and curved in shape. Pan-fired using the "san bei xiang" process that results in leaves in shades of dark green to a silver-gray sheen. A traditional Fujianese green tea, this is a very well-made, full-bodied green tea.

Price: $11.00