2019 Qianjiazhai Tea Flower Sheng
2019 Qianjiazhai Tea Flower Sheng
Sourced By the Dongsa Cooperative
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truesavory60brown sugartruespice85ginger, sparkling minerality, cedartruefloral75honey, osmanthustruefruit40dried apple
Tasting Profile
- savory - brown sugar
- spice - ginger, sparkling minerality, cedar
- floral - honey, osmanthus
- fruit - dried apple
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- DATE OF PICKINGApril 2019
- Qianjiazhai Mt. Ailao
- ELEVATION2000-2250m
- Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal
For a few extraordinary weeks at the beginning of autumn, every wild tea tree in Qianjiazhai puts out deeply aromatic golden blossoms. In recent years the Dongsa Cooperative, led by Master Zhou, has experimented with picking small amounts of the rich evocative tea flowers to blend with their wild-picked ancient-tree teas. Craft and terroir have come together beautifully for this 2019 early autumn harvest from Qianjiazhai's wild tea trees, picked at the same time as the iconic tea flowers are blooming. The Dongsa Cooperative wild-forages buds and tender leaves from tea trees between one hundred and three hundred years of age for this loose sheng pu'er blend. Every hand-picked leaf is withered and sun-dried in bamboo baskets, with little or no heat exposure to lock in the most wild and natural flavor of one of the most remote growing regions in the world. The tea flowers bring out textural depth and even sweeter undertones in this already sweet and supremely drinkable young sheng.
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'Within Qianjiazhai, there is little to no cultivated tea. Members of the Zhenyuan Dongsa cooperative forage from wild tea trees that have been growing for generations, scattered across the mountainsides. They have rights to sustainable foraging because they can trace back their family in the region to generations before the land was set aside as a protected forest preserve.'
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56-820520 seconds10562058 seconds45122058 hours
Steeping Instructions
Western
5 g.6-8
oz.use 205° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
add 10 sec. each infusionGongfu
5 g.6 ozuse 205° watersteep 8 seconds
add 4 sec. per steepingenjoy many steepingsIced/Cold
5 g.12
oz. use room temp.° water refrigerate overnight
8 hours hours add ice & enjoy