This Aged Wild Shou Mei white tea is actually incredible!

And it’s just the medicine I need right now.

I’m dealing with a lot of stress right now. What I need right now is stillness.

What this Shou Mei gives me is a moment. Sometimes it really means something to just take a moment, have a sip, and realize, “This moment here is amazing and life is meant to be awesome.”

And here we go. All these tea leaves, harvested from an old tree growing in the wild, perched in my teapot. After two solid infusions, they expand beautifully. Funny enough, the liquor almost looks white—most white tea liquor is more of a yellow.

However, I assure this Shou Mei is bold. You can taste the wild quality of the leaves, something no human can engineer. And that’s what makes this special.

The other day someone said that making gongfu-style tea is hard. It’s actually not hard at all. In fact, easier than making coffee.

But one thing that is true about gongfu-style tea? You have to care. If you don’t care, it’s not going to be good. But if you do care, the whole world opens for you and tea can actually be special.

Maybe caring is work. Maybe what most people want is to just have something in their hand that gives them their caffeine. And I’m not saying there’s no merit in that. Nevertheless, if you don’t care, it likely won’t be good.

Good tea teaches you mindfulness. It teaches you to be in the moment. That the process of making tea is, of itself, the point.

If you can do this, manage this discipline, you will be rewarded.

Some call this a ceremony. I call it caring enough.

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