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2024 Qianjiazhai Wild Yue Guang Bai

2024 Qianjiazhai Wild Yue Guang Bai

$36.00
(100g cake)
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Wild White tea
from the world's oldest tea forest
Hand-picked ancient tree white tea inspired by Yue Guang Bai "Moonlight White" and shows off notes of jasmine, mulling spice, merengue and a velvety texture.
Spring 2024 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Wild White tea
from the world's oldest tea forest
Hand-picked ancient tree white tea inspired by Yue Guang Bai "Moonlight White" and shows off notes of jasmine, mulling spice, merengue and a velvety texture.
Spring 2024 ♦ 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 PICKINGSpring 2024
    • QianjiazhaiMt. Ailao, Yunnan
    • ELEVATION2140 m
    • Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal

    This is the Dongsa Cooperative's second year finishing thier wild-picked ancient tree tea as a white tea! Inspired by the famous Yunnan Yue Guang Bai or Moonlight White style white tea, this mix of buds and leaves is dried without heat in bamboo baskets outdoors on breezy days fro quickly lock in teh deep complexity of the tea as it tastes picked fresh from the tree. This year's Yue Guang Bai was rested for a half year before gentle steaming and pressing into 100g cakes.

  • true
    90
    jasmine
    true
    65
    pear crumble
    true
    75
    mulling spice
    true
    30
    clover
    true
    45
    meringue
    true
    fluffy

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - jasmine
    • fruit - pear crumble
    • spice - mulling spice
    • vegetal - clover
    • savory - meringue
    • texture - fluffy


Master Zhou also recommends:

  • 'However much moisture the tea wants to release, that is how much evaporates…. If you roast it at high temperatures, you are changing what it wants. The tea wants to hold on to a little moisture, but the [high] heat forces it out...'

  • 5
    6-8
    212
    20 seconds
    10
    5
    6
    212
    10 seconds
    2
    5
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 212° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 212° 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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