Green '70 Vintage

We think this tea was made in 1970. It was a bushel of a few hundred kilos discovered in an abandoned tea factory being dismantled for a real estate transaction.

The northwest part of Taiwan produced a lot of green tea in the latter half of 1900, and from the look of this tea and the history of the factory, the factory keeper suspected it was made into a green tea in 1970 – when Nixon was president.

Some say it tastes like an old Pu-erh, but we were taken by its herbaceous and woodsy character that’s soft and velvety like a cashmere blanket. So here you go – a fifty-year-old green tea made on the eve of Watergate.

Available for purchase in the tearoom on Fri 2/21.

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