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2018 Wuyi White Tea Mini Cake

2018 Wuyi White Tea Mini Cake

$25.00
(100g cake)
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Genre-Defying White Tea
Pressed for Aging
The Li Family applies old-school white tea craft to Da Bai varietal leaves for a striking, mineral-driven tea packed with cooling aftertaste and notes of rice wine, cream, lychee, honey and vanilla.
Spring 2018 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Genre-Defying White Tea
Pressed for Aging
The Li Family applies old-school white tea craft to Da Bai varietal leaves for a striking, mineral-driven tea packed with cooling aftertaste and notes of rice wine, cream, lychee, honey and vanilla.
Spring 2018 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
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Crafted by the Li Family

Hand-picked and traditionally hand-finished within the true Wuyishan Ecological Preserve on forested biodiverse, rocky, mountainous land for distinct Wuyi minerality.
 
The Li Family is an award-winning, highly respected force for sustainability, hand-firing craft, rare varietal preservation, and tea education in Wuyishan.
    • DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2018
    • Wuyishan Ecological PreserveWuyishan, Fujian
    • ELEVATION600 METERS
    • Da BaiTea Varietal

    The Li Family is excited to offer 100g cakes of this special aged tea!

    In an historic first, Li Xiangxi and her family have begun to cultivate Da Bai varietal in the cool, rocky, and singular terroir of their old growth fields in the Wuyishan Ecological Preserve. Using traditional sun-drying and airing techniques, the Li's have crafted finished white tea and pressed it into beautiful 90g cakes for aging. At a glance, it looks like a classic Shou Mei, but a tasting reveals how much the Wuyi terroir impacts the flavor of Da Bai. This tea is packed with deep minerality, balanced complex texture, and cooling foresty notes that you would not find in classic Fuding white tea. The biodiversity, soil, and water of one of the most famous tea microclimates in the world makes this a fantastic new way to experience what white tea has to offer.

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    70
    deep minerality, cooling cedar
    true
    65
    rice wine, cream
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    50
    lychee, lemongrass
    true
    60
    honey, vanilla
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    Tasting Profile

    • spice - deep minerality, cooling cedar
    • savory - rice wine, cream
    • fruit - lychee, lemongrass
    • floral - honey, vanilla

The Li Family also recommends:

  • 'In his own words, Li Xiangxi’s brother walks you through the Li family‘s Old Tree Shui Xian groves and explains how allowing the tea trees grow naturally and encouraging biodiversity creates this tea’s special, characteristic flavor profile.'

  • 5
    6-8
    208
    15 seconds
    5
    7
    5
    208
    6 seconds
    2
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 208° watersteep 15 secondsresteep many times
    add 5 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    7 g.5 ozuse 208° watersteep 6 seconds
    add 2 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    4 g.12
    oz.
    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours
    add ice & enjoy

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