Seven Cups

Please welcome the first of our 2026 Rock Wulong Teas!!

This weekend we start with Iron Monk, Narcissus, and Eight Immortals produced by tea maker Liu Dexi.

Liu Dexi’s teas come from handpicked, large leaves from Wuyi mountain and are heavily roasted in large bamboo baskets.

This years Eight Immortals you will find a coffee-like roastiness and late-blooming floral finish.

New tea season is also new bamboo season is also fresh mangosteen season is also lychee season is also young ginger season 🤤

Spring, buddy, you’ve done well.

First spring teas of 2026 are coming out the gate tomorrow at 11:00 AM MST tomorrow. 🐎🍃马上到, buddy!

Horses going up!

If you’re in Tucson, we hope to see you tomorrow as we all pack into the teahouse for the annual lion dance. (Sat. 2/14 10 AM - 11 AM)

Also, continuing our other New Year tradition, our entire store (online and in person) is 20% off through Tuesday. 🐎🧧

One week away!

Our friends at Tucson Hung Gar Wing Chun Club will be back to celebrate with a traditional lion dance and martial arts demonstrations. There will also be nian gao “new year cake” (Chinese baked mochi) to eat and teas to sip.

Overflow parking is available west of the teahouse in the parking lots of our friendly neighbors, Dan’s Toy Shop and Northminster Presbyterian Church.

This event is free and open to everyone. We look forward to seeing you there!

UPDATE 1/26: We're closing applications for now. The response has been far beyond what we imagined! Thank you to everyone who's shared and submitted their resume. We’re so lucky to have you as our community.

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Our Seven Cups warehouse team (pictured) is hiring.

We’re searching for a part-time tea packer to help us package loose leaf tea into bags for sale.

This position offers shifts 2-3 days per week, with some flexibility for scheduling. Typical shifts are 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Our office is a friendly, welcoming, and quiet work environment.

Please note: Tea packers are required to not smoke and not wear fragrances or use products with fragrance (lotions, hair care products, etc.) before or during shifts packing tea.

Additionally, this position requires:

— Keeping a clean and organized workspace.
— Careful handling of delicate products.
— Attention to detail.

Applicants with an interest in tea are especially welcome. All the tea you can drink is one of the perks. 🤓

If you stop by the teahouse this weekend you’ll see Jodie and Mike, giving the dragon and monsoon clouds a bath, a few touch-ups, and a fresh protective coat.

Their work to create this mural three years ago made it into one of the things that defines our teahouse. They’re also such wonderful people to work with that we’re thrilled to have them back to help preserve the mural’s colors for years to come.

From design to ex*****on to conservation, we can’t recommend enough.

A snapshot found on Austin’s desk, taken before Seven Cups was even Seven Cups.

This photo goes all the way back to the first time Austin ever stepped foot into a tea garden, twenty-five years ago, when he hiked up into the Wudong Mountain range on a stock trail and camped among the tea bushes there with this tea maker (name unknown) as his host.

There was no driving up the mountain back then, although the local government was actively working on a road at the time. Rock-clearing dynamite blasts echoed through the night as the tea maker poured gongfucha brews of dancong and made Austin some farm fresh chicken soup on the mountainside, as advertised by his sign in the photo. Talk about entrepreneurial spirit.

That was a year before Seven Cups started up, when Austin was still figuring things out. He wasn’t in the tea business. He didn’t know he even wanted to be in the tea business. He was just a guy who loved tea and China was opening to the world. Beijing just got chosen for the 2008 Olympics and China soon entered the WTO. There was a sense of optimism and awe in the country, among Chinese and outsiders alike.

Drinking 2025’s Sweet Potato Dan Cong invokes these memories for Austin. It reminds him of both the flavor of the tea he drank that night on Wudong Mountain and the feeling of promise it came steeped in.