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2022 Zun Sheng Dragon Pearls

2022 Zun Sheng Dragon Pearls

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Hand-formed Dragon Pearls
from sweet early spring sheng
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from 500-1000 year tea trees, a portrait of this ancient tea forest’s beauty. Notes of daffodil, camphor, peach and brown sugar with a cooling aftertaste.
April 2022 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Hand-formed Dragon Pearls
from sweet early spring sheng
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from 500-1000 year tea trees, a portrait of this ancient tea forest’s beauty. Notes of daffodil, camphor, peach and brown sugar with a cooling aftertaste.
April 2022 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
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Crafted by the Dongsa Cooperative

True zero-intervention wild tea, foraged from ancient tea forests in one of the most remote tea growing regions in the world.
 
The Dongsa Cooperative was founded to promote responsible stewardship of these tea forests and pass on old-school pu’er hand-crafting techniques that yield incredibly complex tea.
    • DATE OF PICKINGApril 2022
    • QianjiazhaiMt. Ailao, Yunnan
    • ELEVATION1800 m
    • Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal

    Zun, or ‘revered’ is the name the Li Family of the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative gives to the tea picked from their tea trees aged between 300 and 800 years old. This name is a reminder to them of the value of these old trees and of the respect that humans should pay to a living thing that has persisted for so long. Their sustainable foraging lets the trees continue to grow for future genertations to enjoy. The Dragon Pearl pressing of their 2022 Zun sheng pu’er is full of fruit and cooling camphor, and steeps out consistently as the ball unfurls over time.

    Each 25g bag contains four dragon pearls.

  • true
    85
    daffodil, orange blossom
    true
    80
    camphor, clove
    true
    95
    peach, muscat grape
    true
    70
    brown sugar, whipped cream
    false
    true
    cooling, tingling

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - daffodil, orange blossom
    • spice - camphor, clove
    • fruit - peach, muscat grape
    • savory - brown sugar, whipped cream
    • texture - cooling, tingling


the Dongsa Cooperative also recommends:

  1. 2020 Loose Leaf Zun Sheng Pu'er
    2020 Loose Leaf Zun Sheng Pu'er
    Zun, a designation chosen by the cooperative, means ‘reverence’ of the ancient Qianjiazhai tea trees themselves, an awareness of the human collaboration with a living tree that has existed for generations before us and hopefully will continue to exist for generations after us. The Zun series cakes use the first early spring growth from only the old-growth (500-1000 year) wild trees above the Li Family’s home high in the mountains, and accessible only on foot. The wild nature of this tea’s provenance come through as a flavor texture and aroma experience that is both reverent of its source, and worthy of reverence for its commanding beauty, full of honey and dried apricot with a hint of wild mountain tulsi, and intense textural depth.
  2. 2020 Gu Hua Sheng Pu'er
    2020 Gu Hua Sheng Pu'er
    Master Zhou's Gu Hua harvest is a careful blend of maocha from trees aged between one hundred and three hundred years old, picked for a balanced and rich full body and aroma. Gu Hua is the very early autumn harvest prized for its rich flavor and intense aroma. These wild trees grow in one of the oldest and most remote tea forests in the world, on Mt. Ailao. Every leaf is hand picked and carefully sun-dried with minimal time on the wok for a more natural and pure flavor. The maocha is finished with careful stone-pressing in a custom 100g mold carved by Master Zhou. In addition to 100g cakes, the cooperative has also pressed larger 250g "xiao jin gua" forms this year.
  3. 2020 Zun Sheng Pu'er
    2020 Zun Sheng Pu'er
    This year's Zun harvest is offered in two pressings: 5g dragon pearls (5g, 25g) and 100g cakes. Zun, a designation chosen by the cooperative, means ‘reverence’ of the ancient Qianjiazhai tea trees themselves, an awareness of the human collaboration with a living tree that has existed for generations before us and hopefully will continue to exist for generations after us. The Zun series cakes use the first early spring growth from only the old-growth (500-1000 year) wild trees above the Li Family’s home high in the mountains, and accessible only on foot. The wild nature of this tea’s provenance come through as a flavor texture and aroma experience that is both reverent of its source, and worthy of reverence for its commanding beauty, full of honey and dried apricot with a hint of wild mountain tulsi, and intense textural depth.
  • 'A single eight hundred year old tree can yield up to three kilograms of finished dry leaf. The Dongsa Cooperative picks each of these trees and keeps their leaf material separate. The finished sheng pu’er maocha can either be sold as a single tree lot, blended with other 800 year trees for a single age statement pressing, or blended with 300-500 year leaves for Zun pressings.'

  • 4
    6-8
    205
    30 seconds
    15-30
    4
    6
    205
    10 seconds
    10-30
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 205° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 15-30 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 205° watersteep 10 seconds
    add 10-30 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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