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2024 Huang Jin Gui

2024 Huang Jin Gui

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Golden Water Turtle
fruit forward oolong
This "se zhong" varietal takes on juicy ringing mouth-watering aftertaste finished by award-wining Zhang Rongde. Notes of green apple, guava, lilac, basil, soy milk and toasted almond.
Autumn 2024 ♦ Green Finish
Golden Water Turtle
fruit forward oolong
This "se zhong" varietal takes on juicy ringing mouth-watering aftertaste finished by award-wining Zhang Rongde. Notes of green apple, guava, lilac, basil, soy milk and toasted almond.
Autumn 2024 ♦ Green Finish
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Crafted By Master Zhang

Environmentalist and award-winning craftsman, Master Zhang is committed to pioneering low-impact tea farming that replenished natural forests on his high elevation Anxi mountain plot.
 
Master Zhang devotes his energy to introducing rare varietals of tea to increase biodiversity and researching ancient finishing techniques to make rich, aromatic oolong unlike anything else in the world.
    • DATE OF PICKINGAutumn 2024
    • Daping VillageAnxi, Fujian
    • ELEVATION1000 meters
    • Huang Jin GuiTea Varietal

    Huang Jin Gui, or Golden Water Turtle, is actually most widely tasted when grafted onto Tieguanyin to make Jin Guanyin. It is a remarkable show-stopper of an oolong in its own right when cultivated for what it has to offer. Huang Jin Gui is hugely fruity with juicy notes dominating, and a luscious honey backbone to carry the fruit. When the weather, soil and finishing come together perfectly, this tea also has an intriguingly complex cooling quality and deep minerality behind all that luscious dessert-like goodness. 

  • true
    90
    green apple, guava
    true
    70
    lilac
    true
    65
    basil
    true
    70
    soy milk, almond
    true
    juicy, ringing, mouthwatering

    Tasting Profile

    • fruit - green apple, guava
    • floral - lilac
    • spice - basil
    • savory - soy milk, almond
    • texture - juicy, ringing, mouthwatering

  • 'In his own words, Master Zhang describes the differences between different Anxi oolong tea varietals growing in his fields above Daping, Anxi. From Mao Xie and Tieguanyin to Mei Zhan, Qilan and Ben Shan, a wide variety of cultivars grow side-by-side'


Master Zhang also recommends

  • 5
    6-8
    208
    30 seconds
    10
    5
    4-5
    208
    10 seconds
    2
    5
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 208° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.4-5 ozuse 208° watersteep 10 seconds
    add 2 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    5 g.12
    oz.
    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours
    add ice & enjoy

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