Our newest limited availability tea! :)
Expertly roasted in-house in very small, select batches, our House Tieguanyin is one of our most prized offerings. This tea begins its journey in the tea fields of Anxi, in the Fujian province of China, where it is picked in the springtime and processed completely by hand by skilled tea masters. After the long and masterful process of processing the tea, it is exported. Its next stop is at our headquarters, where we carefully select a small batch for additional processing.
Our slow-roasting technique is done in-house by Brenden, the owner of Whispering Pines. By using low heat and basing the roast level mostly on the aroma, he is able to produce a traditional-style tieguanyin with absolutely perfect flavor balance. At first, the aroma of the tea morphs into melting butter before filling the room with popcorn, toasted rice, and finally the sweet aroma of salted kettle corn and oven-fresh wheat bread. The heat is slowly reduced at this point and the tea is covered until cool.
The taste of our first batch of House Tieguanyin opens up with a smooth, juicy body with brilliant light floral notes and the signature mineral notes symbolistic of the best Chinese oolongs. The middle and end of the sip carries the thick and warm sweetness of caramelized bananas and the finish is long-lasting with notes of salted kettle corn and oak!
A truly beautiful roast of an already perfect tea, our first batch of House Tieguanyin won’t be around for long!
Due to our extremely limited batches, we have decided to limit the purchase of our House Tieguanyin to one ounce per customer per order.
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Sounds wonderful…I have so much love for tie guan yin…I think I just ordered a dark roast anxi from you. (I hope I did!) ok, you have to stop with those enticing descriptions, you have me drooling all over my iPad, lol!
Had no idea you were doing your own roasting. Are you doing it for many of your teas?
:) Yep, I’ve been roasting stuff for personal use for about a year now. I also roast the Yabao in the October blend and the cedar leaves are roasted in-house too. I’ll be offering various roast levels of House Tieguanyin from now on, though :)
Sounds wonderful…I have so much love for tie guan yin…I think I just ordered a dark roast anxi from you. (I hope I did!) ok, you have to stop with those enticing descriptions, you have me drooling all over my iPad, lol!
Had no idea you were doing your own roasting. Are you doing it for many of your teas?
:) Yep, I’ve been roasting stuff for personal use for about a year now. I also roast the Yabao in the October blend and the cedar leaves are roasted in-house too. I’ll be offering various roast levels of House Tieguanyin from now on, though :)