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Discover four distinctive sides of Tieguanyin in one collection:

🌿 Light Aroma Tieguanyin

Fresh, bright, floral, light-bodied

🌸 Floral Aroma Tieguanyin(Zhengwei Tieguanyin)

Orchid-like, smooth, sweet, cooling

🔥 Roasted Aroma Tieguanyin

Toasty, nutty, rich, mellow

🍂 Aged Aroma Tieguanyin

Aged, smooth, plum-like, lingering roast

Taste them side by side and discover how processing and aging can completely change the character of the same tea.

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2024 Dun Lao White Tea Wet Storage

It is believed that white tea should be aged in dry storage. The white Dun Lao that you see in the pictures spent two years in high-humidity storage, close to the Hong Kong style.

This wasn’t done on purpose; it can be difficult for local farmers to assess their storage conditions. Uncontrolled wet storage often leads to ruined tea, but sometimes curious metamorphoses occur.

That is exactly what happened with Dun Lao. When my skepticism of "you don't do this to white teas" was replaced by a pleasant wave of sensations, I decided to dive deeper into this tea. One of the markers was the desire to drink it to the very end — this doesn't happen to me with every tea.

​And the deeper I immersed myself in its essence, the stronger my desire grew to buy out the offered batch (40 cakes only) and show this tea to you.

Later, Dun Lao spent about three months in dry conditions already on my premises and began to truly delight with its unique profile.

Organoleptics.

Leaf aroma: warm, slightly damp, sweet. After washing and oxidation — slightly wine-like, with notes of baked apples and almonds. The brewed liquor smells like plum, reminiscent of GABA.

The taste of Dun Lao has both sweetness and the slight bitterness of fragrant teak wood. In the second half of the taste and the aftertaste, sweet minty chewing gum is clearly noticeable along with something floral, apricot, and even milky. All of this passes through the receptors quietly, but softly and richly.

The most pleasant thing about such teas: you don't have to delve into the profile here — Dun Lao will simply warm you up well, relax you, and satiate you.

The tea drinks easily and smoothly. In the later steeps, I like to bring the color of the liquor to a dark ruby and get a thick and dense compote. Then sandalwood and plum will appear in the taste, without astringency, and florality, as an illustration of the tea's actual youth.

Dun Lao holds up to multiple steepings perfectly, you can drink it for a long time, so use a moderate amount of dry leaf — 5-6 g per 100 ml will make your day.

The effect is mild, warming, and sedative. The tea has gathered in itself white, black, and even a little bit of sheng pu-erh characteristics, so it satisfies wonderfully.

About the name.

In Chan (Zen) Buddhism, there is a central concept 顿 (dun), which means "sudden". It appeared during the time of the sixth patriarch Huineng, and signifies the concept of sudden enlightenment, as opposed to the idea of gradual enlightenment that mostly prevailed in Buddhism.

顿老 (dun lao) means to age in a flash, to age suddenly/instantly. That's how the name of this tea came about — 顿老白茶 Dun Lao Bai Cha.

It will be very interesting to hear your feedback and impressions!

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June is coming to an end, and so is our June Dark Tea Season. If you’ve been wanting to stock up on clean-aged post-fermented teas/Heichas, our 15% off storewide discount on all dark teas is valid through June 30th, 2026.

If you’re tired of the musty, wet-blanket "cellar taste" (仓味) that often comes with humid Southern storage, our philosophy is entirely different. All of our teas are stored under strict, monitored conditions in our Northern dry storage (Xi'an), keeping the humidity locked between 50–65%. This allows the original material and microbial fermentation to age cleanly, predictably, and without off-notes.

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• Minimum order: $60
• Deadline: Valid until midnight, June 30, 2026.

A few highlights from the Archive Collection this month:

• On Taoism Fu Brick Series: Our award-winning, refined Jingyang Fu Brick with intense "Golden Flowers" (Eurotium cristatum). Complex, sweet, and zero swampiness.
• GenShe Vintage Series: Hand-pressed Shaanxi Fu bricks crafted by heritage master Jia Genshe. Great if you want to explore vertical aging profiles (we have vintages running from 2010 to 2019).
• Clean-Aged Shou Pu-erh: Deep, grounding, and thick, but completely free of that aggressive piling odor. Ready to drink right now or stash away for further dry-aging.

Check out the full collection here:Orientaleaf Dark Tea Season

Let us know if you have any questions about our storage setups or specific tea profiles! Happy brewing.

In order to honor the teas we are releasing from Spring of 2026, we are offering 10% off on all releases from past years. Between now and the Summer Solstice (June 21st), we will also give away 3 randomized minis with each cake or 12 with each tong purchased. Here is our new Puer sampler.

Zhangping Shuixian Nothing says summer like the light fragrances of Zhangping Shuixian, and this year we are expanding our repetoire with an award winning producer. In the Master's Touch Sampler, you can try he solid daily drinkers compared to teas that are 10 times the price from Master Lin.

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Tieguanyin, Dan Cong, Da Hong Pao… not sure where to start?

That’s exactly why we created this series:

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As announced in this month's newsletter : There is 20% off 2006 and 2007 teas until June 13th.

Discounts are reflected online already. Almost exclusively puerh, but there is a 2006 DaHongPao that's down to $8.89 / 50g which is a great deal :)

Either can go to Etsy and see them already or search for 2006 / 2007 at LiquidProust.com

Domestic shipping is free when you cross $100 and it ships from Ohio.

Hi all,

I just put this organic echinacea and elderberry blend together under my brand, Aeon Tea. I worked with a manufacturer to source it, but I picked these specific ingredients because I wanted a really clean, comforting defense blend.

We just went live on Amazon, and since we have zero reviews and no traction yet, I set up a 30% off code for anyone who wants to try a bag.

• Code: TZYI4P3L
• Valid: From today (6/4) through the end of the month (6/30)

Here is the link if you want to check it out: Amazon

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Discount Code: PNW Tea for 15% discount all teas are on sale for Memorial Day

It’s the perfect time to bring new energy to your daily tea moments.

🎁 Spend & Save from 19th-25th:

• $45 – $6 OFF

• $89 – $15 OFF

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In today’s newsletter, we have a new ripe pu-erh tea in two forms – cha tou and loose.

This shu is nothing like the 2013 Mae Nam Khun cake. The only thing they have in common is the quality of the material. Here, we have honest 200–300-year-old Thai trees, without any admixture of plantation assamica, as is often the case in Chinese shu when producers try to save on quality material.

The material for this tea was collected and accumulated in Thailand over several years before being sent to the Bafang factory in Menghai in 2024 as loose-leaf sheng puerh for fermentation.

I’ve already drunk around half a kilo of these tea heads and, honestly, I probably wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said that, to my taste, they come very close to ideal shu. That doesn’t mean I’m ready to drink only this tea. The urge to change my shu every morning is irresistible to me. But every time I return to these cha tous, I feel that pleasant anticipation of a flavor I already know well.

Organoleptics.

The main melody of the aroma: dark chocolate, milk, sea salt. Not milk chocolate with fish but exactly as I wrote it.

If you have a good nose and low-mineral water, then from the second infusion, when the heads loosen up a bit, you will also be able to catch the pastry tones of a freshly baked bun. I have absolutely no idea where a freshly baked bun comes from in shu, but somehow, it’s there.

By the way, for your first session with this tea, I recommend brewing the tea in a gaiwan, despite your extensive collection of Yixing pots. No matter what kind of pu-erh it is... otherwise, you won't know all the facets of your tea. Although, I fully admit that not everyone needs this.

Besides chocolate, you can easily find both milk and pastry-candy tones here, but they are slightly less prominent in the taste than in the aroma.

This heads, if desired, brew well into a thick chocolate “petroleum.”

Resinous notes emerge in the second half of the taste and in the aftertaste.

The texture is thick and oily. I really love it when a shou has a solid, multi-faceted body. With some shu, it often happens that the liquor ends up resembling a milky, vanilla-fruity water without much density. The top layer of flavor is there, but the body is missing.

The tea is easy to drink, smooth, and doesn't dry the mouth at all. It has a very voluminous taste with excellent balance.

The steeping resistance is remarkable, which again speaks to the old-tree material.

Cha Qi.

There isn't much caffeine in the tea, as sometimes happens, and that's very good. But it's there, and the tea invigorates quite well, while adding something else from its elements that gives a light sedative effect. I value this kind of effect very highly, a similar Qi can often be found in good aged shu.

All in all, these tea heads are good for both daily tea drinking and thoughtful tea meditation.

Loose shou, unlike cha tou, has a more pronounced bitterness. It may seem obtrusive to someone, but without this component, the tea would lose its fullness of taste. I drink both loose and heads with pleasure.

Loose tea brews faster than heads, requires no warm-up at all, and a gaiwan is excellent here for continuous brewing.

The bitterness will go away with age. I think in a year it will be completely gone, just like the tea itself...

20% off both new arrivals for 5 days.

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Yesterday I served roughly 60 people five teas at an event and woke up this morning with the decision to make them 25% off for the next 2 days

2025 Sweet Lamentations - a roasted oolong that is processed in a way to mimic aged oolongs

2026 Jackfruit scented green tea from Indonesia - scented February 2026, makes a perfect cold brew

Tea&I - the youngest leaf that KJY from South Korea uses on his dark teas

2025 Brahma Mahurat-read about this one, it's probably the most special of all black teas I've ever carried

Japanese Dark Tea Sampler- three unique Japanese fermented teas that use koji mold to create some really crazy stuff

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Half off through 4/30. Love this tea as a daily drinker. Especially at this price.

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I am bringing back the presale style of store credit buying for this week only.

At www.sweetestdew.com you can buy store credit and get a 20% increase on what you spent. Spend 50 and get $60 in store credit. A lot of high end teas are coming in May including 100% wild mao feng and some rare Anxi oolongs. You can use the store credit now or wait till you need it. It does not expire.
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