Dawn

Name: Dawn
Brand: Mr. Xie
SKU: SK80819964
Price: 25.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$25.00

Dawn is made from Four Seasons Spring (Si Ji Chun) varietal. It was made by Mr. Xie Yuan Zai, who has made many of our teas over the years and is one of our teachers (You can read more about him on our farmers page and in the magazine.) Dawn comes from bug-bitten, “honey-fragrance (mi xiang)” red. The tea was withered for a long time, rolled for a long time and then piled once more before roasting it dry. The long withering ensures the deep oxidation needed for making red tea. It is deep, dark and extremely fragrant. The grinding brings out a lot of the flavors and fragrances, making this tea a powerful drink and wonderful for cooking with. (There are a lot of wonderful desserts you can make with Dawn, some of which we shared in the January 2019 issue of the magazine.)

Each tin is 150 grams.

The Farmer

Mr. Xie 謝元在

Mr. Xie (Xie Yuan Zai, 謝元在) is a third-generation tea farmer in Mingjian, Nantou, in central Taiwan, where his family has grown small-scale oolong across three lifetimes. He has farmed organically since 1997, converting after agrochemicals began affecting his wife's health, and weathered years of lost customers, working part-time as a painter and carpenter to keep his family afloat rather than compromise his principles. By the early 2000s his organic craft had matured into award-winning teas that have been featured on Taiwanese television. He has since formed a local co-op, teaching neighboring farmers organic methods and offering them equal shares, and several farms around Mingjian, including those beside his own fields, have joined him.