#wuyishan
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The Famous One, Now in a Bag
Jin Jun Mei needs 75,000 single buds for half a kilo. Five years into the Jiang family partnership, it got the same whole-leaf tea bag treatment as everything 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 Cliff Shaped Like a Reclining Buddha
Foguoyan takes its name from a rock formation said to resemble a sleeping Buddha. The cinnamon-spice rougui grown in its shadow tastes nothing like its more famous Wuyishan neighbors.
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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.