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2024 Tongmu Reserve Jin Jun Mei

2024 Tongmu Reserve Jin Jun Mei

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the Li Family's Reserve
Buddy Black Tea
Tiny golden buds, hand-picked in early spring and finished at the Li Family's Tongmu Workshop to bring out notes of staemed bun, apricot, nutmeg, vanilla. and a silky smooth texture.
April 2024 ♦ Tongmu, Fujian
the Li Family's Reserve
Buddy Black Tea
Tiny golden buds, hand-picked in early spring and finished at the Li Family's Tongmu Workshop to bring out notes of staemed bun, apricot, nutmeg, vanilla. and a silky smooth texture.
April 2024 ♦ Tongmu, Fujian
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Crafted by the Li Family

This tea is part of Li Xiangxi's Reserve Collection, selected by her family to best represent Tongmu and the heritage of Wuyishan.
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 PICKINGApril 2024
    • TongmuWuyishan, Fujian
    • ELEVATION800 m
    • Xingcun Xiao ZhongTea Varietal

    Li Xiangxi’s old family home is in Tongmu, in a protected ravine with wild bamboo, orange trees and native flowers growing around old growth wild tea bushes. Once a year in the early spring, Li Xiangxi and her family pick the tiny golden buds off the cultivated tea bushes growing below her family home. The beautiful golden color and flavor of this carefully cultivated Jin Jun Mei (Golden Eyebrows) makes it one of the most prized teas in China. This tea is particularly precious as it takes expert hand-labor to harvest the thousands of tiny young buds that go into a single 5g package.

  • true
    65
    vanilla, honey
    true
    85
    nutmeg
    true
    65
    pear, apricot
    true
    70
    sweet corn, steamed bun
    true
    cooling, velvety

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - vanilla, honey
    • spice - nutmeg
    • fruit - pear, apricot
    • savory - sweet corn, steamed bun
    • texture - cooling, velvety

The Li Family also recommends:

  • 'Wild tea bushes grow right out of the rocks, fed by deep natural springs higher up in the mountains. Simple bamboo aqueducts bring the water downhill, providing good fresh water to the bushes, the Li’s vegetable gardens, and the workshop below.'

  • 4
    6-8
    195
    30 seconds
    15-30
    4
    6
    190
    10 seconds
    10-30
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 195° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 15-30 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 190° 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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