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2025 Wuliang Mountain Jin Xuan “Milky Oolong” (2025 Spring)

2025 Wuliang Mountain Jin Xuan “Milky Oolong” (2025 Spring)

Wu Zhimin

Type
Oolong Tea
Origin
De'an Village, Wuliang Mountain, Dali, Yunnan Province, China
Cultivar
Jin Xuan (金萱)
Elevation
1900m
Steeping instructions
Water Temperature: Use boiling water at 100°C (212°F) for all infusions. Gongfu style: 1g : 20-25ml. For the first infusion, steep for 30s. For subsequent two infusions, use flash steeping (quick pour and strain). Then, gradually increase the steeping time with each round. Western style: 1g : 80ml, 2min + 1min per infusion Bowl style: 1g : 80ml
Description
This is a high-elevation Jin Xuan Oolong (金萱乌龙) from Wuliang Mountain, crafted in a Taiwanese-leaning oolong style that highlights cultivar expression shaped by mountain climate. Harvested and processed on April 30, 2025, it comes from a tea garden at ~1900m, where the slopes spend much of the year under mist and high humidity and sunlight arrives mostly as soft, diffused illumination. That gentler light helps reduce sun stress on the plants while supporting the kind of leaf chemistry associated with a more fragrant, less aggressive cup. Wuliang Mountain’s pronounced day–night temperature swing is a major part of the story: cooler nights slow leaf respiration and can help preserve sweetness while moderating harsher phenolics. Combined with steady moisture from monsoon rainfall and mountain dew, the result is a tea that reads as clear, elegant, and “gentle but structured,” with a smooth, sweet-leaning texture. Jin Xuan’s hallmark in excellent lots is its naturally occurring creamy “milk” aroma—not an added flavor—often interlaced with a bright apple-like fruit note. In this tea, the creaminess presents as a soft, dairy-adjacent impression (think warm milk foam rather than candy), while the fruit note keeps the cup feeling clean and buoyant. In top-grade infusions, you may also catch faint honeyed or osmanthus-like accents, and the aroma tends to stay present across multiple steeps, with lingering fragrance even after the cup cools.

Shipped in February 2026

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