2025 | ELEPHANT IN THE TEA ROOM, GUIZHOU GREEN

<Landing at the Tea Bar on May 8>

Imagine a tea origin that nobody has heard about, yet somehow produces more tea than all of Japan. 

Guizhou is world-famous as the origin of ‘Maotai’, one of China’s most treasured distilled spirits; it sells for hundreds of dollars (thousands, for older vintages) in liquor stores worldwide.  Yet Guizhou is barely recognized beyond China’s borders for another treasure: tea!  Located at the edge of the Tibetan plateau, bordering some of China’s most famous tea origins (Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan), Guizhou’s mineral-rich soils produce some stunning tea.

Credit to our good friend Mimi Chiu (a Hongkonger who spent many of her school years in Vancouver) for introducing us to Guizhou teas

Experience:  notes of freshly chopped celery, key lime and water chestnut; lingering 'green' mouthfeel.

Cool fact:  since Mimi came to Vancouver four years ago and gifted some of this tea to Geoff, the tea became one of his Dad's go to favourites.

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