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2014 Loose Gong Ting Shu

2014 Loose Gong Ting Shu

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Wild tender bud shu pu’er
The Dongsa Cooperative carefully times their wild-foraging to capture tiny buds from ancient tea trees for a special Gong Ting pu’er unlike any other. Notes of roasted barley, vanilla, sandalwood, and kumquat.
March 2014 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Wild tender bud shu pu’er
The Dongsa Cooperative carefully times their wild-foraging to capture tiny buds from ancient tea trees for a special Gong Ting pu’er unlike any other. Notes of roasted barley, vanilla, sandalwood, and kumquat.
March 2014 ♦ 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 PICKINGMarch 2014
    • QianjiazhaiMt. Ailao, Yunnan
    • ELEVATION1500 m
    • Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal

    Qianjiazhai Gong Ting Shu Pu'er is still a very new practice, made only by one of Master Zhou's students in the cooperative. Using the giant buds of Qianjiazhai's wild trees between 100 and three hundred years of age, this tea is carefully and slowly pile fermented to bring out a deep rich sweetness unlike any other shu pu'er out there. Master Zhou was so excited by this experiment he is sharing the technique across the cooperative and encourage more members to keep developing the craft.

  • true
    80
    pastry, roasted barley
    true
    60
    vanilla
    true
    55
    sandalwood, fir tree bark
    true
    40
    kumquat
    false
    false

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - pastry, roasted barley
    • floral - vanilla
    • spice - sandalwood, fir tree bark
    • fruit - kumquat


The Dongsa Cooperative also recommends:

  • 'This Spring, we were lucky to return to Qianjiazhai to meet more of the talented people behind Qianjiazhai’s old tree pu’er and black tea. Through the cooperative, these families and individuals can work together the share resources and knowledge, teaching and learning from each other while protecting and acting as stewards over tea trees in the oldest tea forest in the world'

  • 4
    6-8
    208
    20 seconds
    10
    5
    6
    208
    6 seconds
    3
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 208° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 208° 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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