Tea collection · 红茶

Black Tea

Changshou’s black teas are made to keep the character of Yunnan leaf clear: fruit, flowers, sweetness and a generous texture without relying on heavy roast. Some are sun-dried; the tiny wild-tea lots are finished gently to preserve their own fragrance.

Whole-leaf black teas made in small batches, with the making adjusted to the material rather than pushed toward a single house style.

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Shanhe sun-dried black tea served with autumn fruit

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Seasonal 2024 / 2026 batches · loose or 200 g cake

Shanhe · Sun-Dried Black Tea

山禾 · 晒青红茶

Several batches failed before we found a stable balance of withering and oxidation for this sun-dried black tea. Its name, Shanhe, joins mountain with grain or seedling; the liquor is silky and open, with fruit, flowers, and honeyed sweetness.

Shanhe taught Changshou that black-tea making is as much about timing as recipe. Several early batches failed before oxidation could be held at the right temperature and humidity. Instead of a high-temperature final firing, Shanhe is dried in the sun, giving it a softer, more active character that continues to change. Spring batches tend toward apple, apricot, flowers, and honey; autumn tea is deeper, with a longer throat finish and fragrance left in the cup.

Origin: Cunqing material, Yiwu · Yunnan
In the cup: Apricot · orange · apple · flowers · honey
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Spring 2026 · 100 g

Single-Tree Wild Black · 2026

野生红单株 · 2026

Five or six pickers spend a full day on a wild tree more than three metres high, yielding under ten kilograms of dry tea. Keeping that tree separate preserves its individual character: remarkable purity, round body, cool sweetness, and coherent fragrance.

The wild leaf is withered in shade, rolled, oxidised in a controlled warm environment, then dried at low temperature rather than roasted hard for aroma. Because one large tree is picked and made separately, the batch keeps that tree’s own balance instead of averaging it into a forest blend. Changshou looks for clean oxidation—avoiding over-fermented sweet-potato notes or high-fire roast aroma—so the yellow-peach, lime, rose, honey, and cool sweetness come from the material itself.

Origin: Fengqing protected forest · Yunnan
In the cup: Yellow peach · lime · honey · wild rose · caramel
Availability: Very small lot · enquire

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Spring 2026 · 100 g

Mixed-Pick Wild Black · 2026

野生红混采 · 2026

Mixed wild trees grow almost invisibly among the forest rather than in a managed plantation. The tea is warm, generous, and thick, with vivid mountain character, lifted fruit and flowers, and clean honeyed sweetness.

These are uncultivated wild-type tea trees scattered through protected forest around Fengqing. The leaf is picked from many plants, then withered, rolled, fully oxidised, and dried. Wild material has fewer downy buds and a waxier leaf than cultivated tea, but deeper oxidation turns its natural austerity into a warm liquor with bright acidity, fruit, honey, maple-like sweetness, flowers, and the unmistakable impression of the forest where it grew.

Origin: Fengqing protected forest · Yunnan
In the cup: Wild fruit · honey · maple sugar · bright acidity
Availability: Small seasonal lot · enquire

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Black Tea

Teas in this collection

Shanhe · Sun-Dried Black Tea

Single-Tree Wild Black · 2026

Mixed-Pick Wild Black · 2026

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