2021 Special Grade Shui Jin Gui
2021 Special Grade Shui Jin Gui
Crafted by the Li Family
Tasting Profile
- spice - deep forest, aloeswood
- fruit - passionfruit
- floral - lilikoi
- savory - deep roast
- texture - powerful cooling yun, sparkling
- DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2021
- Wuyishan Ecological PreserveWuyishan, Fujian
- ELEVATION600
- Shui Jin GuiTea Varietal
Deep forest, tropical florals and powerful aftertaste - the new 2021 harvest is here!
To produce a Special Grade offering requires perfect weather, perfectly situated old-growth tea stock, shaded by mist through the spring, expert hand-picking and critically, an exhaustive production process of small batch hand yaoqing and five to six rounds of hand-firing. The Li Family is only able to produce a few kilos of this special tea every year. Li Xiangxi sets aside a small allotment for us because she loves Shui Jin Gui varieties so much that she wants to share what she thinks is one of the truest expressions of Wuyishan with interested tea lovers outside of China. Tasting notes can’t capture the critical tingling cooling sparkling sensation that is yun and the way that it lingers in the back of the throat, building with each sip and letting each steeping build on the potency of the one before.
- DATE OF PICKINGSpring 2021
'Indeed, the most prized tea in Wuyi are the wild tea bushes that grow right out of a split in the rock. The flavor of tea growing from the rock and tea growing from the soil is vastly different. While all of Li Xiangxi’s teas have a sweet and nuanced mineral flavor that evokes the peaks she tends to, her wild picked old tree tea has a deep and haunting mineral flavor that proclaims the legendary origins of the tea.'
Steeping Instructions
Western
6 g.6
oz.use 208° watersteep 18 secondsresteep many times
add 10 sec. each infusionGongfu
7 g.5 ozuse 208° watersteep 5 seconds
add 3 sec. per steepingenjoy many steepingsIced/Cold
4 g.12
oz.use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
8 hoursadd ice & enjoy
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