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2021 Zun Sheng Pu'er

2021 Zun Sheng Pu'er

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Early spring sheng available
loose, and in special cakes.
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from 500-1000 year tea trees, a portrait of this ancient tea forest’s beauty. Notes of peony, sandalwood, apricot, snap peas, and oat with a tingling mineral aftertaste.
April 2021 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Early spring sheng available
loose, and in special cakes.
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from 500-1000 year tea trees, a portrait of this ancient tea forest’s beauty. Notes of peony, sandalwood, apricot, snap peas, and oat with a tingling mineral aftertaste.
April 2021 ♦ 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 PICKINGApril 2021
    • QianjiazhaiMt. Ailao, Yunnan
    • ELEVATION1800 m
    • Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal

    Crisp, fruity, floral, nuanced - the new 2021 harvest is here!
    This year's Zun harvest is offered both loose leaf (5g, 25g) and in two pressings:
    100g cakes and 250g Xiao Jin Gua.

    Zun, a designation chosen by the cooperative, means ‘reverence’ of the ancient Qianjiazhai tea trees themselves, an awareness of the human collaboration with a living tree that has existed for generations before us and hopefully will continue to exist for generations after us. The Zun series cakes use the first early spring growth from only the old-growth (500-1000 year) wild trees above the Li Family’s home high in the mountains, and accessible only on foot. The wild nature of this tea’s provenance come through as a flavor texture and aroma experience that is both reverent of its source, and worthy of reverence for its commanding beauty, full of honey and dried apricot with a hint of wild mountain tulsi, and intense textural depth.

  • true
    80
    peony
    true
    80
    coriander, galangal, sandalwood
    true
    100
    muscat grape, aloe, apricot
    true
    50
    arugula, sugar snap peas, tulsi
    true
    50
    oat, rye
    true
    crisp, minerality, tingling

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - peony
    • spice - coriander, galangal, sandalwood
    • fruit - muscat grape, aloe, apricot
    • vegetal - arugula, sugar snap peas, tulsi
    • savory - oat, rye
    • texture - crisp, minerality, tingling


the Dongsa Cooperative also recommends:

  1. 2023 Qianjiazhai Single Tree Sheng
    2023 Qianjiazhai Single Tree Sheng
    Qianjiazhai is home to some of the oldest tea trees in the world. Once again, we are extremely lucky this year to be able to offer a single-tree harvest from the oldest tree on the Li Family’s high elevation plot, estimated to 1300 years based on its trunk diameter. Located at 24°16'13.6"N and 101°12'19.6"E, this single tree needs to be carefully climbed to sustainably harvest about ten kilograms of leaf per year. Growing out of a rocky mountainside, and surrounded by a biodiverse wild growth of evergreens, tulsi plants and flowers, this tree benefits from cool misty air, and mineral-rich soil. It takes three people with linked arms to circle the trunk! The deep roots and thousand plus years of fighting for survival give this tea an incredible complexity full of yun cooling sensation and aloeswood incense undertones. The Li Family works with Master Zhou to dry this tea in bamboo baskets in the sun, and hand finish the maocha for traditional stone pressing. Even within a microclimate like Qianjiazhai, each mountaintop and valley has its own unique qualities, and the cooperative selected this tree as worthwhile to finish separate from their blended cakes to show off the stunning terroir and the complexity that is possible with ancient tree stock. Set aside a few cakes for aging and the yun cooling and tingling qualities continue to develop over the years. We’ve been following this tree for six years now and have been blown away with the development we see in cellaring. available this year in 5g dragon pearls, 100g tea cakes and 250g pressings
  • 'A single eight hundred year old tree can yield up to three kilograms of finished dry leaf. The Dongsa Cooperative picks each of these trees and keeps their leaf material separate. The finished sheng pu’er maocha can either be sold as a single tree lot, blended with other 800 year trees for a single age statement pressing, or blended with 300-500 year leaves for Zun pressings.'

  • 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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