Lushan Yunwu
庐山云雾 · Cloud Mist
Green
On Lushan the fog does half the work.
The gardens sit above eight hundred metres and stay wrapped in cloud for nearly two hundred days a year. Sunlight barely reaches the leaves, so they grow slowly and turn out thick and sweet. Weather is doing what a maker would otherwise have to do by hand.
Monks were already tending these bushes when the Song court claimed the harvest as tribute, and the mountain has been famous for its cloud far longer than for its tea. The weather reaches the cup unchanged. Mellow and deep green, and about as close as mist comes to being drinkable.
- mellow
- vegetal
- sweet
- Origin
- Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi
- Water
- 80°C / 176°F
- Ratio
- 3.5 g / 100 ml
- Caffeine
- Medium
- Rinse
- Not needed
Song tribute tea; often listed among China's famous teas
How much leaf
Gong fu brewing is leaf-heavy and short. Set your gaiwan or pot size and this is what to weigh out.
Vessel volume
100 ml
Recommended dose
Use ~3.5g of tea
The session
4 infusions, about 2m 5s of total contact time.
- Steep 120sSoft, cloudlike, not yet spoken.
- Steep 225sDeep green thickens into broth.
- Steep 335sSweetness surfaces through the mist.
- Steep 445sLight rain, fading and clean.
Also sold as
Lu Shan Yun Wu, Lushan Cloud-fog
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Get notified at launchThese numbers are a median of independent gong fu sources, not a law. Leaf age, vessel and water all move them. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.