Cloud Line

Cloud Line is a high-mountain oolong grown at the very edge of where tea can survive — smooth, deeply sweet, and impossibly clean, carrying the cold mineral character of the peaks it comes from.

Our Cloud Line is a Qīng Xīn oolong grown at 2,150m in Dàyǔlǐng, deep in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range — one of the highest tea gardens in the world. At this altitude the bushes sit at the limit of survival, spending close to a quarter of the year under frost and snow. They grow slowly, wrapped year-round in cold mountain cloud. The leaves are tightly rolled jade-green pellets that open into whole, fleshy leaves, brewing into a bright, clear gold.

The cold is what makes it. Huge day-to-night temperature swings — often more than 15°C — force the plant to store up sugars and pectin to survive, and that's exactly what you taste: a full, rounded body and a deep natural sweetness that lingers. The constant mist filters the sunlight, slowing growth and softening any edge of bitterness, so the cup stays remarkably smooth. Beneath the sweetness runs a cool, almost mineral note — the "cold mountain" character you only find this high up — with a soft floral aroma and a sweet, lasting finish. It merits multiple infusions, revealing a little more with each steep.

The garden grows in loose forest gravel that drains fast and feeds the roots a steady supply of minerals, ringed by old-growth cypress and clean, untouched mountain air. Nothing about it is rushed. It's about as pure, and as high, as tea gets.

Best brewed gong-fu style — short, repeated steeps. Enjoy it slowly and on its own. This is a tea to sit with.

This selection was produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and harvested in spring 2026.