Lao Cha Yuan Ganlu (Old Garden Sweet Dew)
Green Tea 2026
A hand-crafted tea made from the earliest harvest of heirloom tea bushes in a high-elevation Mengding tea garden. An infusion that’s as crisp as spring water, sweet as a spring garden, and as layered as a fruit pastry.
2025’s harvest is sold out. 2026’s harvest will be available soon.
$28.00
- Tea Origin
- Mengding Mountain, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, China
- Tea Bush
- Lao Chuancha (Old Heirloom Sichuan Tea Bush)
- Tea Maker
- Mu Zegang
- Harvest Time
- March 15th, 2026
- Plucking Standard
- One bud, one leaf
This is a small lot of Sweet Dew made from the first spring harvest of seed-grown heirloom Sichuan bushes. Those bushes are growing on a couple of acres of steep and forested mountainside, at a higher elevation from our usual Mengding Ganlu (Sweet Dew). This old tea garden is still planted with Sichuan’s native seed-grown tea bushes that are well-adapted to the local climate and environmental conditions of Mengding Mountain.
Leaves from this garden get the old-school treatment: hand-fired twice in the pan and rolled three times between the palms to dry. That brings a contrast of cool and warm top notes, bright melon and cucumber with buttery chestnuts and fresh baked bread. A cold breeze in the sunshine.
