Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin

Anxi Wulong Tea 2026

Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin wulong tea dry leaves.
Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin wulong tea leaves in clear water.
Cupped infusion of Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin wulong tea and strained leaves.
A woven basket full of fresh plucked tea leaves on the sprig.
Lush green leaves on an Anxi Hongxin Tieguanyin cultivar tea bush.

This earliest harvest of Tieguanyin has been processed like a rock wulong and slow-roasted over lychee wood charcoal for dark, toasty, and nutty flavors alongside sweet florals and notes of ripe apple.

Original price was: $19.25.Current price is: $15.40.

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Tea Origin
Anxi County, Fujian Province, China

Tea Bush
Hongxin Tieguanyin (Red Heart Tieguanyin)

Tea Maker
Zhang Shuiquan and Zhang Qingmu and Zhang Qingjian

Harvest Time
Late April

Plucking Standard
Zhong kai mian
A large bamboo drum full of dark tea leaves of Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin.
Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin slow-roasting over lychee wood charcoal.

This earliest harvest of Tieguanyin tea leaves would normally be made into our delicate Golden Tieguanyin. However, the tea maker has worked this small lot of leaves more extensively and slow-roasted them over lychee wood charcoal as if making a Wuyi rock wulong tea. As with that famously finicky style of wulong, both the oxidation and the charcoal-roasting steps require great attention and intuition on the part of the tea maker to cultivate the developing flavors and aromas within the leaf.

These efforts have resulted in a compelling tea with a much darker character even toastier than our Traditional Tieguanyin, rich and nutty with sweet florals and notes of ripe apple.

Glowing red embers peeking from beneath a layer of pale gray-white ash.
Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin is slow roasted over glowing embers of lychee wood charcoal, smothered in white ash to prevent the leaves from getting scorched or smoky.

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.

Charcoal Roasted Tieguanyin 2026 brewing guidelines

5 grams (2 Tb) tea

12 oz 100°C (212ºF) water

3 min. first infusion

At least 4 infusions: 3, 3, 5, 8 minutes

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