MULAN RESERVE
will gradually build a vintage reserve system of Mulan’s own, through year, origin, harvest, making, batch, edition and individual number.
Some teas can be made year after year.
Some teas we would rather remember by the year they belong to.
Because seasons return,
but this one will not.
MULAN RESERVE is MULAN TEA STORY®
the reserve system built for the teas worth being recorded by time.
In 2027 we will continue to refine this system.
What we want to record is not only a tea’s name.
For the works that enter MULAN RESERVE in the future, we want to establish as complete an identity record as possible:
YEAR
Recording which season it belongs to.
ORIGIN
Recording where a cup of tea truly begins.
HARVEST
Recording when it was picked.
MAKER
Recording the judgement left in it by people and craft.
BATCH
Recording the individual identity of this batch.
EDITION
Recording how much this season finally leaves behind.
NUMBER
Giving each reserve a place of its own.
We hope that in the future, when you open a MULAN RESERVE,
you will see not only a tin of tea.
But a span of time that can be traced.
A new spring will come.
New tea will come too.
But we will not decide that something must become a “reserve” simply because the time has come.
Only works truly worth keeping
will enter MULAN RESERVE.
Specific teas, vintage works, batches, editions and related information will be subject to the subsequent official release by MULAN TEA STORY® and MULAN POP.
Until then,
we keep waiting.
Waiting for the land. Waiting for the season. And waiting for the cup of tea truly worth keeping.
Keeping a spring in a cup of tea.
