Bai Rui Xiang (Hundred Blooms)
Rock Wulong Tea 2025
Bai Rui Xiang (Hundred Blooms) is a magnificently buttery and flowery rock wulong entirely made by hand. Its infusion is light-bodied but full in flavor and aroma, suggesting osmanthus flowers, steamed artichoke, and fresh-baked bread.
Original price was: $26.00.$20.80Current price is: $20.80.
- Tea Origin
- Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, China
- Tea Bush
- Bai Rui Xiang #305
- Tea Maker
- Zhou Yousheng and Huang Shiying
- Harvest Time
- Mid-May
- Plucking Standard
- Zhong kai mian
This fully handmade version of Bai Rui Xiang (Hundred Blooms) is a delicious showcase of tea maker Zhou Yousheng‘s atypical style of making rock wulong tea. His light touch on the leaf’s oxidation and roasting maximizes the leaf’s flowery aromatics into a burgeoning bouquet while still developing a very full and well-rounded flavor. A must-not-miss from one of our long-time yancha producers.
Like most Wuyi rock wulong teas, Bai Rui Xiang is named after the tea bush cultivar used to make it. The cultivar is sometimes simply referred to as Rui Xiang or “305” (its assigned number from the Fujian Tea Research Institute) and its tea appears on the market variously as 白瑞香 “White Daphne” or the near-homonym 百瑞香 “Hundred Blooms.” This bush entered cultivation relatively recently, in the early 2000s. It is regarded as an exemplary “high-fragrance” variety with its own distinctive aroma.
The Dark Horse of Light Rock Wulong
Among the wulong producers of Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Yousheng is something of a dark horse. He’s a tea maker with no teachers in the craft save for his upbringing in a tea farming family. By this, he’s the most representative of the generational knowledge held by Wuyishan’s tea people. He has been in contact with tea every day since he was a child as the youngest of seven. Although his name is not associated with this origin’s famous teachers, the standard of his craft commands unequivocal respect. His tea consistently wins Wuyishan’s tea competitions. His Huang Guanyin won the grand prize at Wuyishan’s Zhang Tianfu Cup in 2020, beating out hundreds of other teas. His blended Da Hong Pao also stood above over a thousand other competitors in 2021’s Wuyishan Cross-Strait tea competition, winning the silver medal for Da Hong Pao category.
Mr. Zhou’s tea making emphasizes aromas that are sweet, heady and persistent. There’s a daring lightness to his tea that drops some of the mellow body that rock wulong is known for in favor of keeping its bouquet.
No chemical fertilizer, pesticide, or herbicide was used in the production of this tea. Click here to read more about our promise to fair trade and the environment.
