#tongmuguan
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Two Boxes, Twelve Years Apart
A box built from Tongmuguan's own wood, and a box wrapped in poetry — two packaging choices, two years apart, both saying something true about the same twelve-year partnership.
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The Flagship, Eleven Years In
Special-grade Jin Jun Mei, eleven years into the Jiang family partnership — early-spring single buds from forest tea gardens 1,200 to 1,800 meters up, picked before anything else.
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Why We Stopped Selling Broken Tea
In 2015, Baoputang made a deliberate choice about tea bags: whole leaf only, never dust or fannings — even when that makes the format harder to produce.
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The Jiang Family of Tongmuguan
Every red tea Baoputang sources from Wuyishan comes from one family — ten years working with Jiang Yuanfang, one of 24 generations of tea masters at Tongmuguan, where lapsang souchong itself was invented four centuries ago.