Crimson Robe

Open until 5pmIndependent shop in DowntownDirections

Available from Perennial Tea Room when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The paradoxically roasty, mineral, floral aroma that steams out of a fresh cup of this tea hits you in the face. Over the course of a sip, the roast gives way to a rainy day in a rose garden: the subdued aroma of rose under the soft, chalky petrichor of a gravel path. Aside from being a fantastic introduction to roasted oolongs—a heavy hand in comparison to our other oolong selection—this is a quintessential example of a famously distinctive category: the Wuyi rock oolongs. Wuyishan is a craigy,