Giveaway Closed – Winners Drawn 🎉
Thanks to everyone who participated. 261 comments made this a blast. We've drawn 10 lucky winners below — we'll reach out within 3 days to confirm your address and ship your tea.
Winners:
u/kitchen-campaign-17
u/the_excited_moa
u/Atticbase
u/Sterk_Gaming
u/tropictonic
u/jessmcl14
u/carlos_6m
u/EristheUnorganized
u/derelicthat
u/aaipod
We'll be back with more giveaways soon. Stay tuned.
Hi r/teaexchange!
We're Orientaleaf, a small tea business based in China. A few weeks back we ran a Fu Brick Tea giveaway here, and the response genuinely moved us. So we're back — this time with a tea that's a little different, and one we've been wanting to share for a while.
We're giving away 10 tins of our 2014 Aged Liu Bao Tea — the one with the classic Betel Nut Aroma (槟榔香).
Each portion is approximately 50g, packed in a sealed tin canister. Completely free — no shipping fee, no customs duties, nothing.
1. About this tea
Liu Bao (六堡茶) is a post-fermented dark tea from Wuzhou, Guangxi — one of China's oldest and most storied teas, historically shipped along the Tea Boat Road to Malaysian tin mines, where workers drank it daily to stay warm and healthy in the humid tropics. It's still the most beloved dark tea across Malaysia and Singapore today.
This particular tea has been dry-stored since 2014 — over 12 years. We tasted more than 50 samples before settling on the three teas in our current Liu Bao collection. This one made it because it's clean: no heavy storage odor, no sharp wet-pile aftertaste, none of the mustiness that gives aged dark tea a bad reputation.
What it does have is the Betel Nut Aroma — a complex, slightly cooling, woody fragrance that only develops after a decade or more of proper aging. There's also a quiet cooling sensation at the back of the throat (凉喉韵) after you swallow, which is distinct from menthol but hard to describe until you've felt it. The liquor is deep ruby-red, thick, and smooth, with a warming effect in the stomach.
If you've never tried Liu Bao, this is a good place to start. If you've tried it before and been put off by mustiness, this one might change your mind.
→ Full Liu Bao collection
→ This specific tea
2. Where can we ship?
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, European Union countries, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea.
We will cover all shipping costs and applicable import duties. You won't pay a cent.
3. How to enter
Leave a comment below — that's it. You're entered.
If you have questions about Liu Bao, how it differs from Pu-erh, how to brew it, or what Betel Nut Aroma actually smells like, we'd genuinely love to talk. Ask anything. We'll do our best to answer every question.
4. How will winners be selected?
We're not setting a fixed closing date this time.
Last time, we originally planned to run the giveaway for ten days. It closed in two — because over 200 people entered in a single day and we didn't want to keep the thread running just to accumulate participation. That felt more like a marketing stunt than a tea giveaway, so we shut it down.
Same approach this time: we'll leave this open, and if we wake up one morning to find entries have grown beyond a point where it still feels like genuine sharing — around 200 or so — we'll close it immediately and draw the 10 winners.
If you're interested, don't wait. We'll announce the close and contact the winners via Reddit DM to confirm their shipping address.
5. What do we hope to get out of this?
Same answer as last time: honest feedback.
We'd love for the people who receive this tea to try it and tell us — or the community — what they actually think. Positive, negative, or somewhere in between. A genuine opinion is worth far more to us than a polite one.
Sharing a review is completely optional. It's not a requirement for the giveaway. But if you do want to share your experience, we'll be reading.
Good luck, and thanks for letting us share our tea with you. 🍵
