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If you run a tea company and the people behind Charlie Trotter’s new Vegas restaurant call, you get yourself on a plane immediately and present them with your finest selection. Peter Luong, 35—co-owner (with sister Alice) of Chinatown’s Red Blossom Tea Company, which has been in his family for 25 years—so impressed the management at Restaurant Charlie that they splurged on one of Luong’s newest acquisitions: Ancient Tree Shui Xian, a rare oolong that sells for $450 a pound and comes from centuries-old tea trees that cling to the cliff-side terraces of China’s Wuyi Mountains. The tea leaves are hand-bruised and roasted over fruitwood charcoal; the result is a delicate tea that’s fragrant with sandalwood and dried orange peel, with a lingering bittersweetness.
If you run a tea company and the people behind Charlie Trotter’s new Vegas restaurant call, you get yourself on a plane immediately and present them with your finest selection. Peter Luong, 35—co-owner (with sister Alice) of Chinatown’s Red Blossom Tea Company, which has been in his family for 25 years—so impressed the management at Restaurant Charlie that they splurged on one of Luong’s newest acquisitions: Ancient Tree Shui Xian, a rare oolong that sells for $450 a pound and comes from centuries-old tea trees that cling to the cliff-side terraces of China’s Wuyi Mountains. The tea leaves are hand-bruised and roasted over fruitwood charcoal; the result is a delicate tea that’s fragrant with sandalwood and dried orange peel, with a lingering bittersweetness.
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