Red Label Tasting

$60.00

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$60 includes a tasting experience of our rarest teas for up to 4 people in our San Francisco retail shop.

This Red Label Tasting offers a selection of our most exclusive teas, representing the pinnacle of traditional tea craftsmanship. Choose four teas from our Red Label Collection to taste with one of our knowledgeable staff members as your guide.

The current tasting menu offers a selection of:

Silver Needle Reserve - A traditional white tea of the highest quality, with a creamy texture and aromatic notes of marzipan and rose.
Da Yu Lin - Our rarest Formosa oolong, from Taiwan’s highest elevation tea region; fresh and floral with a sweet, buttery finish.
Persimmon Blossom (Ya Sai) - A rare oolong tea from the Phoenix Mountains, cultivated to produce natural notes of honey, persimmon, and asian pear.
Heritage Beidou - One of China's most famous styles, this heavily roasted oolong offers complex flavors reminiscent of toffee, dried fruit, and whiskey.
Eastern Beauty - A rare harvest of bug bitten tea from a high elevation garden, skillfully crafted for notes of honey, stone fruit, and citrus.
Wild Leaf Menghai Sheng, 2003 - A naturally aged pu-erh tea, now dark and mature with rich notes of earth and camphor.

Purchase your flight online today, and receive an email voucher redeemable for this personalized service at our retail shop. Your voucher should arrive in your inbox within a few minutes of purchase. (If you have purchased a flight online but have not received your voucher yet, please contact us!) Vouchers have no additional processing fees, and do not expire.

After your purchase, we ask that you please call us at (415) 395-0868 to reserve a time for your visit. Our tasting space is limited, and we want to ensure we have a table reserved for you when you arrive.

Finally, plan your visit to Chinatown! Reserve 30 or 40 minutes for your tasting, and make sure to leave yourself time to browse our full collection of teas after you've learned all about them. We are located at 831 Grant Ave, in San Francisco, CA. Check out more about our shop, and feel free to give us a call if you have questions about directions or other details. (Again, our number is (415) 395-0868.)

When you arrive for your tasting flight, you'll need to present your voucher, in either printed or digital form. Once we've verified your order, it's time to sit down and taste some teas!

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