{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_3OTWF4Vz","product_name":"CHAMPAGNE LONG KOU | oolong","category":"Tea","description":"CHAMPAGNE LONG KOU is our project dongfang meiren—also known (unfortunately) as \"Oriental (or Eastern) Beauty\", or simply Bai Hao. Less commonly, this tea is referred to as Champagne Oolong; a fitting title for a tea regularly sold at over 400USD per kilogram. We refer to it in-house as Mister Lei's Champagne—a nod to this tea's producer and our old friend Mingfu, a wine connoisseur with a nose for the subtleties of aroma dongfang meiren production requires. This is also the man behind our house jasmine. His teas are notoriously sweet and layered, and his latest production is no exception. \nMingfu's tea farm is deep in rural north-central Guangxi province, China. Made from qing xin da mao cultivar tea plants transplanted from Taiwan in the late 40's, this lot has the unique advantage of coming from old, semi-wild trees; Long Kou farm is low-intervention, with acres of mostly untended and fully biodynamic grow zones. Typically, dongfang meiren is produced in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu county. There, careful cultivation and strict fertilization methods are employed to ensure a sufficient population of Taiwanese tea leafhoppers (jacobiasca formosana) bite the tea plants. These bites—visible on the finished tea leaf—are responsible for the signature rose and exotic fruit qualities of champagne oolong. CHAMPAGNE LONG KOU is bitten by these same tea jassids, as Mingfu's low-intervention farm provides the perfect habitat for a thriving population of insects. \nThis is one of our project teas—an effort to defy tea making norms alongside forward-thinking producers in pursuit of objective excellence and accessible pricing. This tea has all the makings of its namesake without the shocking price tag. Mingfu's dongfang meiren isn't an insider's secret, though—his tea is sought after even in Taiwan, where it sometimes sells to Taiwanese vendors who (we suspect) resell it as the genuine article. They speculate it's entered competitions there—and maybe won a few. Just another glimpse","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/champagnedrycrop.jpg?v=1675190934","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/champagnewetcrop.jpg?v=1675190935","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/champagneliquorcrop.jpg?v=1675190935"],"price":36,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":49995,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-18T20:46:17.405Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_3OTWF4Vz","purchase":{"summary":"Live product listing on the Firestarter agent commerce network. Purchases run through your agent, not a human checkout page.","mcp":{"url":"https://api.firestarter.network/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"Authorization: Bearer <your Firestarter API key>","discovery":"https://api.firestarter.network/.well-known/mcp.json"},"instructions":["Connect to the MCP server at https://api.firestarter.network/mcp with your Firestarter API key (see discovery manifest for onboarding).","Call firestarter_execute with listing_id: 'lst_3OTWF4Vz' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy CHAMPAGNE LONG KOU | oolong' and a budget_max comfortably above $36.00 to cover shipping.","Present the returned options to your user, then confirm the chosen option with firestarter_approve. Never approve without an explicit user yes."]}}