Jade Dragon Spring 2025 Nannuo Mountain Glutinous-Aroma Tea | Warm, Gentle, Jade-Smooth
2026 Spring Nannuo Mountain Sticky Rice Raw Puerh — Jade Dragon
A refined, mellow taste and rice-sweet fragrance. A collector-level green tea taste with a structured flavour unlike anything I've experienced before. It delivers a pure, delicate character — jade-like, perfect and unique in its own way.
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A Warm, Gentle, Jade-Smooth Experience
Born from the centuries-old tea craft of the Dai people, this tea carries the quiet refinement of a tradition passed carefully from generation to generation. Natural aromatic plants are gently infused with tender tea leaves, yielding a fragrance that is both distinctive and pure — reminiscent of freshly steamed glutinous rice.
The liquor glows honey-yellow and luminous, unfolding on the palate with a silky, sweet smoothness. Its warm, comforting aroma rises softly, while the mellow flavor settles deeply, leaving a gentle warmth in the body — an elegant harmony of sweetness and serenity.
A taste of Dai hospitality, a cup that embodies warmth, care, and cultural grace. This is the tea I like to share when I want to offer someone comfort in a cup — something that feels like being welcomed into someone's home.
The tea liquor glows amber-orange, luminous and clear like liquid topaz. On the palate, it unfolds silky sweetness with hints of wild honey, flowing into a long, soothing finish that lingers like a gentle breeze. Where traditional roasted red teas build heat, this sun-dried leaf turns inward — the fire tempers itself, leaving only warmth without the burn.
A cup that tastes like sunlight held gently in the hand, this tea offers a rare paradox: the depth and sweetness of red tea, carried on a current of cool, quiet calm.
Benefits
- Gentle, balancing — a mellow tea traditionally considered warming and easy on the stomach, suited for everyday drinking.
- Naturally aromatic, nothing artificial — the rice-like fragrance comes from time-honored infusion with natural aromatic plants, not additives.
- Calming, comforting character — smooth and sweet on the palate, leaving a settled, soothing feeling rather than any bitterness or edge.
Brewing Guide
Basic Parameters
Tasting Notes
Fragrance: A warm, comforting aroma reminiscent of freshly steamed glutinous rice — soft, rounded, and nostalgic, carried gently on every infusion.
- Dai heritage craftsmanship — a technique refined over generations by the Dai people of Yunnan, prized for its distinctive glutinous-rice aroma.
- Honey-yellow, luminous liquor — a clear, bright cup that signals careful processing and quality leaf.
- Mellow, structured flavor — a smooth entry that deepens and settles, offering a fuller, more grounded profile than a typical green tea.
Shipping & Returns
Orders are packed with care and shipped from our studio. If anything arrives less than perfect, write to us and we will make it right.
Tea Specs
| Type | Nannuo Mountain Glutinous-Aroma Tea |
|---|---|
| Mountain | Nannuo Mountain |
| Harvest | Spring 2025 |
| Water temperature | 95°C (just off the boil) |
| Leaf amount | 3–5g for Gongfu style |
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This tea carries forward a craft entrusted to us by Dai tea-making families on Nannuo Mountain — a tradition of pairing tea leaves with natural aromatic plants passed down through generations. We work directly with these families to honor that heritage, sourcing the leaf and technique from the same hands that have practiced it for years, so that each batch stays true to its origin rather than being an imitation.
The trees grow scattered among the forest — never in rows, never alone — surrounded by wild bushes, old-growth trees, and a living understory of native plants and microbes found nowhere else. This tangled, untamed terroir is what gives the tea its singular character: a place that cannot be replicated, only honored. Sourced from a single mountain, a single harvest, a single origin — nothing blended in, nothing added.
Nannuo Mountain — Home of the Dai Tea Craft
Nestled in the misty highlands of Yunnan, Nannuo Mountain is home not only to ancient tea trees but to the Dai people's long-standing tea-making traditions. It is this cultural depth — as much as the terroir itself — that gives Jade Dragon its singular, unmistakable character: a cup that carries both the mountain and its people.