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2023 Jin Jun Mei

2023 Jin Jun Mei

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Wuyishan’s Most Famous
Buddy Black Tea
Countless tiny hand-picked buds make this tea, and the Li Family loves the way perfect Jin Jun Mei expresses the textural minerality of their rocky mountain plot. Notes of flan, cinnamon and vanilla.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
Wuyishan’s Most Famous
Buddy Black Tea
Countless tiny hand-picked buds make this tea, and the Li Family loves the way perfect Jin Jun Mei expresses the textural minerality of their rocky mountain plot. Notes of flan, cinnamon and vanilla.
Spring 2023 ♦ Wuyishan, Fujian
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Crafted by the Li Family

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 PICKINGSpring 2023
    • Wuyishan Ecological PreserveWuyishan, Fujian
    • ELEVATION600 METERS
    • Xingcun XiaozhongTea Varietal

    Jin Jun Mei Wuyi black tea is one of the most labor intensive and demanding teas to produce. Fine Jin Jun Mei is made exclusively from tiny spring buds, and requires thousands and thousands of hand-picked golden buds to make a single pound of finished tea. The result is a downy tea with a thick full texture, and a beautiful elegance. Li Xiangxi's spring-fed tea grows out of rocky, sandy soil, yielding a rich mineral flavor true to Wuyishan's unique terroir.

  • true
    85
    pumpkin flan, caramel
    true
    70
    clove, cinnamon
    true
    55
    vanilla
    true
    60
    elderberry
    true
    rich velvety

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - pumpkin flan, caramel
    • spice - clove, cinnamon
    • floral - vanilla
    • fruit - elderberry
    • texture - rich velvety

The Li Family also recommends:

  1. 2023 Bai Rui Xiang Wuyi Black Tea
    2023 Bai Rui Xiang Wuyi Black Tea
    Bai Rui Xiang varietal is named after the Winter Daphne, a heady aromatic flower native to China. Traditionally finished as an oolong, this tea always has a rich nuanced undercurrent of incense spice and cooling tingling minerality. This season, the Li Family saved a small portion of this reserve harvest Bai Rui Xiang to finish as a black tea using old-school sun-oxidation in bamboo baskets at the family workshop in Tongmu. The result is an incredibly complex black tea where the intense florals of the oolong finish take a back seat to the cooling tingling textural excitement this tea has to offer, along for a rich spiced brew full of Wuyi’s famous minerality.
  2. Hua Xiang Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong
    Hua Xiang Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong
    While Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is usually smoked, the same leaf material and finishing technique can be used without the final smoking step. Hua Xiang means floral fragrance, referring to the natural but subtle floral notes in Xingcun Xiaozhong varietal that are brought out through the Li Family’s expert hand-processing. When smaller leaf material mixed with delicate buds is used, rich vanilla undertones can develop, accenting the savory nutty flavors. The main difference between this tea and a classic Wuyi Gongfu Black is that Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is not necessarily curled and twisted as thoroughly, giving it a more open structure suitable for incorporating that smaller bud and leaf mixture that wouldn’t work in the tight twists of Wuyi Gongfu Black, but both are very traditional calls back to the very earliest black teas in the world.
  3. 2023 Mei Zhan Jin Black Tea
    2023 Mei Zhan Jin Black Tea

    Mei Zhan varietal is famous for its rich and focused fruit-forward oolong made from long skinny spring leaves. Recently, Mr. Li has been experimenting with a stand of his family’s iconic Mei Zhan in early spring when the plant puts out huge buds that are too delicate to withstand oolong processing. He personally leads the hand-picking of the Li Family Mei Zhan buds and brings them to the family home and workshop in Tongmu for Jin Jun Mei meticulous black tea hand-finishing. The slow oxidation in bamboo baskets brings out big savory notes and sweet rich honey and cream.

  • 'The pristine beauty of Wuyi, the biodiversity of the valleys, the sweetness of the water, the deep devotion of the farmers like Li Xiangxi and her family – for us, tea has always been about connecting with places, people, and history, but Wuyi is a life affirming confirmation of everything there is to love about the humble camellia sinensis plant.'

  • 4
    6-8
    205
    18 seconds
    10
    4
    6
    205
    6 seconds
    3
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.    use 205° watersteep 18 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 205° watersteep 6 seconds
    add 3 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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