Master Heng Yi of Mabian, Sichuan is a third-generation Sichuanese tea master specializing in wild teas. He has identified different “subspecies” of tea plants inhabiting different parts of the mountains of his home in Mabian. His paternal grandfather took him on plant walks as a child where he showed him the locations of these different tea plants and pointed out the morphological differences between them. Heng Yi has dedicated his career to exploring the different subpopulations of wild tea plants in Mabian and tailoring his processing techniques to bring out the individual attributes of each.
This flight contains 10g samples of 3 different Wild Sichuanese teas: