The Myth of Tea Workshops

Name: WooWoo: The Myth Of Oolong
Start: 2025-12-12
End: 2025-12-12
Location: Cup of Tea

This workshop series is designed to deepen your relationship with tea and journey beyond the cup by exploring its historical, cultural, and personal significance. Through guided tasting and sensory exploration, we uncover the ways tea connects us to cycles of nature, ancestral wisdom, and personal clarity.

Each session is an invitation to experience tea beyond its physical form, to listen to its whispers, engage with its energy, and develop a personal mythology of tea that resonates with your own journey. Whether you are new to tea or a seasoned drinker, these classes offer a space for reflection, presence, and discovery.

Meet Your Tea Guide

D’Guar Herrera (They/Them) is a tea student and guide for this workshop series. They approach tea as more than just a beverage; for them, tea is a practice of connection, presence, and personal exploration. D’Guar aims to cultivate a safe and welcoming space where participants can deepen their relationship with tea in profound and meaningful ways.

Monthly Workshop Series

This is a class series designed to deepen your relationship with tea and journey beyond the cup by exploring its historical, cultural, and personal significance. Through guided tasting and sensory exploration, we uncover the ways tea connects us to cycles of nature, ancestral wisdom, and personal clarity.

Monthly Workshop Series

This December at Cup of Tea, we’re stepping into the liminal, shape-shifting world of oolong — the in-between leaf that refuses to be just green or just black. Twisted, rolled, or curled into tight little dragons, oolong is the tea of transformation: floral one moment, roasty the next; buttery in one brew, mineral and deep in the following cup. From mist-wrapped Taiwanese mountains to the rocky cliffs of China’s Wuyi region, oolong’s story is one of craft, patience, and a little bit of magic.

Once poured only for emperors and honored guests, oolong has long been a tea of ceremony and intuition. Farmers watch the leaves with an almost mystical attention, halting oxidation at the exact heartbeat when the aroma blooms. Roasters coax out layers of orchid, honey, toasted grain, and stone fruit, turning simple leaves into something that feels more like alchemy than agriculture. Brewed gong fu–style in many short infusions, oolong doesn’t just make “a cup of tea” — it unfolds like a story, steep after steep.

In our Oolong Workshops, we’ll taste a flight of distinctive teas: a silky Iron Goddess with its lush floral notes; a buttery, balanced Butterfly Formosa; a high-mountain Shangri-La with its bright, ethereal lift; and a few rare oolongs that carry the imprint of their terroir in every sip. Together, we’ll explore how oxidation, roasting, leaf shape, and brewing method turn oolong into the most mystical of teas, a leaf that changes right before your eyes. If you’re ready to court a little wonder in your teacup, this is your invitation to discover the myth of oolong: mysterious, evolving, and endlessly enchanting.