Ye Sheng Purple - 250g Wholesale

Speciality tea for your tea service.

250g of loose leaf tea for cafés, restaurants and hospitality. Choose a paper bag for refilling your tea storage, or a labelled caddie to keep on your tea shelf or counter.

Ye Sheng Purple — Spring 2025

Harvested in spring from wild-growing purple-leaf tea trees in Jinggu, Yunnan, Ye Sheng Purple is processed in the style of a Moonlight White. The freshly picked leaves are briefly withered before being slowly air-dried, preserving the distinctive fruit and herbal aromatics of the leaf while allowing a little natural bitterness to remain.

The aroma is immediately striking, with dried apricot and ripe stone fruit noticeable before the tea is even brewed. In the cup, white peach and sugarcane bring a soft sweetness, followed by sage, green almond, and a gentle herbaceous edge. A slight bitterness gives the tea structure, while the liquor remains silky and full with a cooling finish that lingers between steeps.

Fruit-forward and unusual for a white tea, with enough savoury and herbal character underneath to keep it balanced. It develops gradually over multiple infusions, moving from bright stone fruit towards a softer, more rounded and cooling finish.

Tastes like
Dried apricot, sugarcane, white peach (Top);
Sage, green almond, cooling herbs (Base);

Brewing
5g tea / 100ml water / 85–90°C
Steep for 30–60 sec. Re-steep several times. The leaves are forgiving to brew, with shorter infusions emphasising the fruit and longer steeps bringing out more of the herbal character and gentle bitterness.

In the cup
Ye Sheng Purple has a bright, lively character with a noticeably full texture for a white tea. The combination of fruit, gentle bitterness, and cooling finish makes it feel refreshing while still having plenty of depth.

A good choice for a slower session, particularly if you want something more expressive than a delicate, traditional white tea.