Name: 2024 Mr Ye's Handmade Wild Green
Origin: Houkeng, Anhui, China
Season: April, 2024

When tea seeds ripen in the mountains during autumn, they fall to the forest floor, settling beside small streams or among thick bamboo groves, sometimes getting stuck in boulder cracks. They lie dormant, ready for nature to breathe life into the roots they lay down. Gradually, year after year, undisturbed by humans, these saplings grow into hardy wild tea trees, thriving off the natural environment, vying for light and soil.

Just before Mr Ye begins his annual processing of Houkui tea in April, he hikes into the mountains and picks a small batch from the seasons newly-sprouted wild tea saplings. There is no grading, he simply selects single shoots with one, two or three leaves, following what the forest has to offer. He then takes the pickings home and pan-fries them by hand, finally drying them by charcoals. The tea is ready to drink.

This is tea simply as nature offers it: sweet and fragrant, with a clean, refreshing aftertaste. Wild tea resonates, deep within. I can taste a call to nature.

茶籽在冬天成熟，散落在山林之中。溪流边，竹林里，岩缝中，等待着新的生命的到来。年复一年，这些未经人为干预长成的茶树，和野草争夺养分，与大树抢夺阳光。

每年4月，在制作猴魁之前，叶师傅都会上山采摘这些野生茶树的新芽，不分等级，一芽一叶至一芽二三叶，有什么就采什么，回家后手工炒制，炭火烘干。

这是一份完全来自大自然的馈赠，饮罢唇齿留香，回甘自然舒适。