If you purchase this product you will earn 2026 Spring First Flush Batch
Yang Xian Xue Ya Snow Bud Green Tea
from the famous town of Purple Clay Yixing Teapot – Yixing
A premium first flush batch of Yang Xian Xue Ya陽羡雪芽 from Yixing, the famed home of the purple‑clay (Zisha) teapot, Yang Xian Xue Ya is a top‑tier ancient green tea whose history stretches back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD). “Yang Xian” is the old name for Yixing, and “Xue Ya”—literally “snow bud”—captures the tea’s appearance: plump, silvery‑tipped buds and small leaves dusted with white pekoe that resemble fresh snow.
This premium tea is exceptionally rare. With a strict plucking standard focused on the finest sections of the plant, it takes roughly 70,000 buds to produce just 500g of finished tea, limiting annual yield and elevating its status among connoisseurs. The result is a delicate, refined green tea prized for both its history and its sensory purity.
Ancient Tea with more than 2000 years of history
The recorded history of Yang Xian Xue Ya is roughly around 2000 years. Lu Yu – the Sage of Tea, has mentioned Yang Shan Xue Ya in the Tea Bible, he described it as an aromatic tea which can be served to Kings. It is then became a kind of Tribe Tea for the Royals in Tang Dynasty. The name of Yang Xian Xue Ya is named after a poem line “雪芽我為求陽羡” written by Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 – a famous Chinese Poet and Writer in Northern Song Dynasty. This beautiful line indicated the long history of this tea and described how beautiful the Tea is.
This Year’s Selection — First Flush, One Bud + One Leaf
Appearance
- Dry leaf: A luminous scatter of fat buds and small leaves, each tipped in downy white pekoe.
- Wet leaves: After infusion the leaves open to a uniformly fine, intact shape with a vivid, fresh green that signals careful picking and gentle processing.
Tasting Profile
- Fresh and elegant: brisk and refreshing, initial top notes of newly cut grasses and light floral lift, followed by faint sweet hay and a whisper of orchard blossom.
- Clean and persistent: the fragrance lingers without heaviness, offering subtle layers that reveal themselves over multiple steeps.
Harvest Date: 25 March 2026
Weight per pack: 25g/ 50g/ 125g
Tea Farm Location: Yixing, Jiangsu, China
Varietal: Zhe-nong 139
Types of Green Tea (Green-killing method): Hong Qing/ Baked Green Tea
Tasting Notes: crisp, refreshing, floral, sweet pekoe aroma with lingering sweetness
Dry Leaves Appearance: straight, green, white pekoe in between
Tea Liquor Colour: Bright and clear light green
Brewing Method (Adjust with your own taste):
Gaiwan Style: 3-4g Tea| 150-200ml water (85-90°c) | 1-3 infusion : 10-15’s, After : Add 5’s each
Glass Style: prepare a tall glass, pre-warm the glass by rinsing it, fill your glass with 85-90°c water, add tea leaves (3g), let it rest for 1 minute, enjoy (Don’t drink the whole glass, left 1/3 of Tea liquor in the glass for resteeping, add 30’s each time)
