{"title":"Dongbanshan (东半山)","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"2026-weidong","title":"2026 Weidong","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDwarfed 150-200 year old trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2026 Spring first pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSourced by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/pages\/partners\/guniangzhai-42\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Guniangzhai 42\"\u003eGuniangzhai 42\u003c\/a\u003e, Produced by Yang Jiankang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/pages\/partners\/guniangzhai-42\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Guniangzhai 42\"\u003eGuniangzhai 42\u003c\/a\u003e sourced this tea from an old classmate, Yang Jiankang. The leaves come from the oldest trees in Weidong, all of which are on the same plot as the king tree (i.e. the oldest tree in Weidong) in ancient tea gardens. The trees in Weidong were dwarfed many years ago but, juding from the trunk size, they are around 150-200 years old. This tea is from the first spring picking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeidong, known in Hani as ‘Meng Noy’, has been sold by a few western vendors in the recent years despite being more remote and unknown than many other Bulang villages. Weidong's history is somewhat uncertain. The current settlement was founded by Hani settlers from Laobanzhang who, as legend has it, brought the genetics of their tea trees with them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRegardless, the tea is tasty. It has fast-onset sweetness and huigan alongside both the typical Bulang bite (a triangle of bitterness, minerality, and astringency) and the typical Bulang fragrance (animalistic and leathery). The fragrance is straightforward and punchy like a dashu tea (aka “big trees” aka “大树”) even though it also has the aftertaste, huigan, mouthfeel and overall strength of a gushu (aka “ancient trees” aka “古树”). Perhaps the mix of gushu and dashu features is due to the dwarfing of the trees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Hat Tea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56722962448709,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1014\/8364\/3205\/files\/Weidong.png?v=1779367862"},{"product_id":"2026-nuowu","title":"2026 Nuowu","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e200-500 year old trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2026 Spring first pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eProduced by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/pages\/partners\/yinji\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Yinji\"\u003eYinji\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWrapper design by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/moriz.work\" title=\"https:\/\/moriz.work\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emoriz.work\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/pages\/partners\/yinji\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Yinji\"\u003eYinji\u003c\/a\u003e made this tea from 200 to 500 year old \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003etrees from their four plots in Nuowu. Together these four plots have many hundreds of trees this old, a few even older, nearly two hundred fifty of which are processed individually as danzhu. The gardens are low-intervention and are only weeded to clear the way for the harvest. There are two harvests, one in the spring and one in the fall, and this tea comes from the first (and only) spring picking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNuowu is a Lahu village and the southernmost of the five Bingdao villages. It sits on Dongbanshan just northeast of the Bingdao lake. Like some other Bingdao teas, Nuowu is quite sweet. Unlike some other Bingdao teas, it has an engaging bite: it’s thick, with stimulating bitterness, minerality, and wild forrest fragrance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTogether with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/products\/2026-xiaohuangtian\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Xiaohuangtian\"\u003eXiaohuangtian\u003c\/a\u003e, the teas show two different sides of Dongbanshan. While Nuowu has a wildness and bite like some Menghai teas, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/products\/2026-xiaohuangtian\" title=\"Blue Hat Tea | Xiaohuangtian\"\u003eXiaohuangtian\u003c\/a\u003e more closely resembles Yiwu: low-astringency and low-bitterness and with high sweetness and depth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Hat Tea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57269189378373,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1014\/8364\/3205\/files\/Nuowu.png?v=1779367862"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1014\/8364\/3205\/collections\/dongbanshan.jpg?v=1779306022","url":"https:\/\/blue-hat-tea.com\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Blue Hat Tea","version":"1.0","type":"link"}