Sparrowtail Teas

Organic Song Luo Green Tea-
new to Sparrowtail

This tea is grown high on Song Luo mountain in Jiangxi province, with a lively and complex flavor containing notes of spinach and olive.

Harvested in April 2024

Allow me to reintroduce Bada Manle black tea. This is a sun-dried, hand processed tea from the Menghai region of Yunnan, very close to the Myanmar border, back with a 2024 harvest.

This kind of red tea actually tastes better with a bit of age, like a year or two past harvest. I got a few kgs this time and probably will have some of it still next year, BUT what I recommend is that you get a large amount now and store most of it, that is, if you can somehow stop yourself from drinking it all in a matter of weeks.

See, even though it will probably taste a little better next year or the year after, it also makes for very good drinking now. Enjoy.

Announcing- the glorious return of Premium Hui Long green tea!

A first flush green tea grown in Hui Long village in Western Yunnan at 1250m above sea level and picked to a standard of one-bud-one-leaf, this remarkable and rare green tea has echoes of young sheng puerh in its sweet and lightly astringent taste.

https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/premium-hui-long-yunnan-green-tea

Cold-brewed Organic Long Jing Dragonwell, for a day that will approach 90f. I have a theory, which I cannot prove, that it contains electrolytes. I also have a theory, backed by empirical observation, that it contains an awful lot of caffeine. Whatever the case, I'm ready to go out and water the various garden plants out back. My toddler son will invariably laugh and put his hand in the stream of water from the hose and end up rather wet. Such is daily life in the late springtime around here.

Anyway, this was picked in 2024 in the Hangzhou region before the Qingming rains and is tasty hot or cold. It might contain electrolytes. Enjoy.

Join us 10am-12.30pm on Saturday, April 27 for part 1 of our two-part Soaring Crane Qigong workshop. Part 2 will take place on May 11 at the same time. This course will also be repeated online via Zoom on May 2 (part 1) and May 23 (part 2) from 6.30-9.00pm and will be recorded to help students with their practice. The recording will be made available to all students registered for this course.

We will be teaching all 5 exercises of the beautiful Soaring Crane Qigong series. Regular practice of Soaring Crane Qigong helps promote good health, relaxation and increases our sense of vitality and well-being.

To find out more, or to register for this workshop, please go to baltimoretaichi.com/schedule and select 'Qigong Seminar'. If you have any questions, please call (410) 296 4944 or email [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you!

Please note, this workshop will be preceded by our free, annual World Tai Chi & Qigong Day celebration from 9-10am at the same venue on April 27.

New to Sparrowtail- Organic Gu Zhang Mao Jian green tea. This exquisite spring green is grown in a garden 800m above sea level in Xi Luo Mo village in Gu Zhang county, Hunan Province, and harvested before the Qingming rains.

Notes of fruit and rose predominate in this delicate and tasty tea, which is considered to be among China's famous teas, though not often seen in the West.

Welcome back, Green Spring Snail! Our new 2024 harvest of Organic Green Spring Snail Bi Luo Chun is even tippier and tastier than before.

https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/premium-organic-green-spring-snail-bi-luo-chun-green-tea

Getting today started with some tea from one of these Dancong Red and White 100g mixed cakes. These are a blend of black and white teas; the black tea is made from Mi Lan Xiang "Honey Orchid" bushes, and the white tea is made from Ya Shi Xiang. Both are normally processed as oolongs.

This innovative style of processing results in remarkable tea. Bold and aromatic, with a honey-like sweetness, it comes off a bit more like a black tea, though one very unlike any you are likely to have tried.

https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/dancong-mi-lan-xiang-honey-orchid-black-white-tea-100g-cake

What it looks like when I bring tea to Tai Chi classes I help teach on Tuesday nights with Baltimore Tai Chi

The name Sparrowtail Teas actually comes from a move in the Tai Chi form called "grasping the sparrow's tail", so it's only fitting that I would bring it to classes to share and sell.

Last night's featured tea was Certified Honeybug Taiwan Oolong
https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/other-oolongs/products/certified-organic-honeybug-taiwan-oolong-tea

I find that these early spring-like days make me crave green tea, and when the green tea harvest has yet to come, unroasted Taiwan oolongs like this organic D**g Ding oolong and the organic Four Seasons oolong help to bridge the divide.

In the Sparrowtail store, products>oolong teas>other oolongs

As we wait for the new year's teas, I just marked down the last of my 2023 Anji Bai Cha. I'm drinking some now. Feels like springtime!

https://sparrowtailteas.com/collections/green-teas/products/high-mountain-anji-bai-cha-zhejiang-green-tea