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Wild Purple Yabao Tea, Da Xue Mountain

Wild Purple Yabao Tea, Da Xue Mountain

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Our wild purple Yabao tea from Da Xue Mountain offers an delicate aroma of cream, pink roses and hints of citrus. These exclusive tea buds are hand-picked from sprouts on the small twigs of Camellia Crassicolumna tea tree.

Is Yabao a white tea or a pu erh tea?

Yabao tea involves minimal processing as it's only handpicked and then sun-dried. Because its production method is similar to most white teas, it's generally also classified as a white tea. The taste also mostly resembles that of a white tea soft and smooth base and a floral aroma. Some tea drinkers consider Yabao to be a raw pu erh tea, because you can age Yabao tea like a pu erh.

At last, one could say that Yabao is neither white nor pu erh as it's not made from the leaves and buds, but the sprouts on the twigs of a tea tree.

Independent from it's classification, Yabao is a unique tea since it is made from the sprouts of a tea tree, not leaves & buds.

Origin

  • Type: white tea
  • Origin: Daxueshan, Yunnan
  • Year: 2026
  • Season: Spring
  • Cultivar: Camellia Crassicolumna

How to Steep

Western method

Infuse 4 grams of Yabao white tea with 500 ml water at a temperature of 100ºC and steep for 3 minutes. For a second steep increase the steeping time to 5 minutes

Traditional method

Infuse 5 grams of Yabao tea with 100ml water at 100ºC and steep for 30 seconds. Increase the steeping time by 5 seconds for every next steep.

Cold-brewing

For cold-brewing you may use a bottle, jug, teapot or any brewing vessel that has a lid. Use 8 grams of Yabao tea per 500ml of cold water. Cover the brewing vessel with a lid, and store in the fridge for 8-10 hours.

Shipping, Returns & Payment Methods

Delivery time: EU delivery takes 1–10 days. For country-specific estimates, please see the Shipping Info page at the bottom of our website.

No import taxes: We ship from our EU warehouse. Customers in the EU will not be charged import taxes upon delivery. All applicable taxes are included in our prices.

Free shipping: From €65 to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Ireland. From €85 to most other EU countries and the UK.

Returns: We offer a 30-day return period.

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Sari Trabichi

I cold brewed this overnight and oh my god is it wonderful.

I loved it so much. Tastes floral and sweet. Absolutely new experience for tea.

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Ole

Ein sehr eigener Geschmack, mit einem Hauch Zitrone. Sehr erfrischender Tee.

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Moara De Bortoli Camara
sweet and earthy

this tea is so complex, rich, naturally sweet a bit mineral and earthy, reminding me of the flavor of a purple sweet potato with the skin, sweet in flavor but you can still taste the earth from where it has been dug up. this duplicity creates a perfect balance. in addition the buds of this tea are so beautiful too look at while the tea is steeping.

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Anonymous
Quality=Price

Very good quality for the price

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Alexandra S
Absolutely delightful

Absolutely delightful. Creamy, floral, fruity notes which feel refreshing.Really hits the right spot when you’re wanting some Raw Puerh. I get my white tea fix from a different one ;)

Also this brews for daaaaays, I cannot believe how many full flavor sessions I can get out of this. Don’t be shy about letting it sit a bit as you get to later brews too. Truly, this keeps on going. Absolutely delicious. Worth every cent.

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Gal Virt
Really good

Amazing tea, sweet with a lavander, melon rind and almost a bubblegum note. One of my favorite white teas

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Anonymous
Tasteful white tea; also gave this tea as a

Tasteful white tea; also gave this tea as a present to a friend

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Anonymous
Great website to order from

Great website to order from. I ordered 4 times now, always happy with my purchases :)

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Dhyan Meinoud
wauw amazing tea

I bought a sample of this tea and i love it it has a bit of rose and citrus in it. If you you like floral tea and i guess rose then you will like this tea.

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Anonymous
Not my cup of tea

The tea smells a little strange for me and it also tastes strange. Maybe I’m simply not quite used to the flavor. Anyway, I won’t buy this sort of tea again.

Hello Anonymous, no problem at all! The best teas are always controversial. I hope you'll be able to find teas you love in our catalogue. If you want, feel free to email us and perhaps we can advise on how to tweak the brewing parameters to make thist tea tasty for you. Or we could, based on your preferences, recommend other teas to you!

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Anonymous
Lovely tea

A delicious and fruity tea with a bright cup. Very different taste refering to other white teas; with a high recognition factor.

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Kristian Knudsen
A peculiar tea which in my opinion everybody should try at least once

A peculiar tea which in my opinion everybody should try at least once, just because it is vastly different from 'regular' teas. The dry buds smells pleasently of dry sweet herbs, 'tea', grass, hay, citrus and dried flowers. All of these notes expands greatly after the first brew in the gaiwan and bergamot, dill, flowers, roses and rosehib is revealing itself. The liquid is rounded, slightly oily, with a pleasant aftertaste and no bitter notes what so ever. I would put it between a green and a white tea, but more the latter. A real summer's tea.

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Dr. Richard Eigner
This is the best Yabao

This is the best Yabao, i have come across. Lovely floral notes.

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Erik van Baardwijk
Rare tea

Bought some amazing rare tea from high quality. If you want to taste special tea for tealovers, this shop must be your choice.

Thank you for your positive review and recommendating us!

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Stefan Talpalaru

Brewing: 5g/100ml, 100°C, 20s, +5s.

Warmed-up dry leaves smell like dill and green beans. When wet, floral notes appear, along with a chicken broth umami.

The liquor is bright, with grass and flowers on top of that chicken broth base.

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Eviss

This is such a lovely and aromatic tea. Floral, and a hint of honey to me, but not like a tisane. I also like the structure of the liquid. It is one of the few teas I drink summer and winter, as it seems to blend in with both, being light in Summer and comforting in Wintertime.

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Andrey

Amazing tea. Great flavor still going strong on 5+ steeps

Our design work is inspired by the artwork “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by the Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty. Instead of displaying the daily lives of people in the capital of China (as the original artwork), we display the tea making process of farmers through the same bird’s eye perspective.

When examining our packaging design in detail, tea enthusiasts will observe the tea making process, featuring tea farmers picking, drying, rolling, and frying tea leaves. The tea is then tasted in a pavilion and transported by horses along the ‘ancient tea road’.

Together, the traditional Chinese landscape and tea making theme, symbolise heritage, tradition, and respect for hard work of tea farmers.