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2014 Shu Pu'er Nuggets

2014 Shu Pu'er Nuggets

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Sweet, rich, iconic pu’er nuggets

These nuggets form naturally in the heat and moisture of the pu’er aging process. The result is a dessert-like tea with notes of maple syrup, cherry, sandalwood, vanilla and tulsi.

March 2014 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Sweet, rich, iconic pu’er nuggets

These nuggets form naturally in the heat and moisture of the pu’er aging process. The result is a dessert-like tea with notes of maple syrup, cherry, sandalwood, vanilla and tulsi.

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
    • ELEVATION1900
    • V. AssamicaTea Varietal

    This tea is a new experiment from one of Master Zhou's former students, another member of the cooperative. Qianjiazhai one hundred to three hundred year wild-picked leaves and buds are pile-fermented until they clump together in tight balls in the heat. The balls ferment and age differently than loose tea and yield a rich vanilla-heavy flavor that is impossible to steep out.

  • true
    80
    vanilla pudding, maple syrup
    true
    60
    dried apricot, cherry
    true
    40
    camphor, sandalwood
    true
    35
    fresh tulsi

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - vanilla pudding, maple syrup
    • fruit - dried apricot, cherry
    • spice - camphor, sandalwood
    • vegetal - fresh tulsi

the Dongsa Cooperative also recommends:

  1. 2014 Qianjiazhai Yi Ji Shu Pu'er
    2014 Qianjiazhai Yi Ji Shu Pu'er

    Master Zhou works with his students in the Qianjiazhai Dongsa Cooperative to start introducing shu pu’er fermentation and crafting techniques more widely across the mountain. This stunningly clean, rich and foresty example is crafted from pre-Qingming harvest maocha picked from one hundred to five hundred year trees. Master Zhou set aside a cache of this precious pu'er over a decade ago and agreed to release a small amount to show off the incredible complexity and depth that over ten years of aging brings to pu'er made from leaf and bud material picked in the oldest tea forest in the world.
  2. 2014 Loose Gong Ting Shu
    2014 Loose Gong Ting Shu

    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.
  3. Gong Ting Shu Dragon Pearls
    Gong Ting Shu Dragon Pearls

    The Cooperative's first-ever shu pu’er dragon pearl pressing, this tea is made with beautiful little 2014 buds, allowed to ferment slowly under natural moisture conditions for a sweet and clean flavor profile that shows off the herbaceous side of Qianjaizhai. The loosely pressed. dragon pearls are compact enough for long-term aging and small enough to allow for single brew sessions without having to break apart a bigger cake of tea. The loose hand-twisted compression allows for better and more even aging than anything a machine could achieve.
  4. 2018 Qianjiazhai Tea Flower Gong Ting Shu
    2018 Qianjiazhai Tea Flower Gong Ting Shu
    For a few extraordinary weeks at the beginning of autumn, every wild tea tree in Qianjiazhai puts out deeply aromatic golden blossoms. In recent years the Dongsa Cooperative, led by Master Zhou, has experimented with picking small amounts of the rich evocative tea flowers to blend with their wild-picked ancient-tree teas. 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. This is the first time Master Zhou has blended tea flowers with Gong Ting Shu, and the result is a beautiful visual contrast, along with a floral boost to the textural complexity and nuance of this budset shu pu’er. The clean natural fermentation preserves the herbaceousness of the tea, and the florals bring it out even further.

  • '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
    205
    30 seconds
    15-30
    4
    6
    205
    10 seconds
    10-30
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.    use 205° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 15-30 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 205° 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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