2024 Di Shui Xiang Green Tea
2024 Di Shui Xiang Green Tea
This 2024 Spring harvest is available for pre-order! ETA: end of May 2024
Biluochun-style
tender spring buds
tender spring buds
Early delicate spring buds, carefully twisted and curled to bring out creamy texture and notes of melon sherbet, orange blossom, and vanilla
Early delicate spring buds, carefully twisted and curled to bring out creamy texture. The fresh 2024 harvest is now picked and available for pre-order!
Spring 2023 ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
ETA: end of May ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
Crafted By the Cheng Family
Dedicated craftspeople and farmers, the Cheng Family has a beautiful, high-elevation plot above Guixi Village, an excellent micro-climate for Qimen Black Tea in Anhui.
Master Cheng picks the tiny buds for his family's teas at the very peak of spring and finishes them by hand in his tiny workshop, coaxing out complexity and the underlying minerality of rocky Huangshan.
- DATE OF PICKINGMarch 2024
- Guixi VillageQimen, Anhui
- ELEVATION200 METERS
- Di Shui XiangTea Varietal
Di Shui Xiang is a uses early, downy, and delicate spring buds, normally reserved for the famous Maofeng style, but coaxes these buds into tight curls like Biluochun. The biluochun finishing adds creaminess and depth to the texture, bringing out intense dessert-like notes and the kind of complexity that can only come from one of China's most famous growing regions, Qimen and the misty mountains of Huangshan.
Tasting Profile
- floral - orange blossom
- vegetal - butter lettuce, basil
- fruit - melon sherbet, pineapple
- savory - vanilla pudding
- spice - galangal
- texture - tingling, creamy, sweet
the Cheng Family also recommends:
Steeping Instructions
Western
5-10 g.6-8
oz.use 208° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
add 40 sec. each infusionGongfu
5 g.6 ozuse 200° watersteep 6 seconds
add 15 sec. per steepingenjoy many steepingsIced/Cold
10 g.12
oz.use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
8 hoursadd ice & enjoy