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2023 "Zun" Qianjiazhai Sheng Pu'er

2023 "Zun" Qianjiazhai Sheng Pu'er

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Early Spring Sheng Pu'er
new 2023 pressing
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from ancient tea trees, a portrait of this tea forest’s beauty. Notes of honeysuckle, allspice, peach and molasses cake with an aged tingling profile.
April 2023 ♦ Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
Early Spring Sheng Pu'er
new 2023 pressing
The Zun series is made from sweet, tender early buds wild-foraged from ancient tea trees, a portrait of this tea forest’s beauty. Notes of honeysuckle, allspice, peach and molasses cake with an aged tingling profile.
April 2023 ♦ 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 2023
    • QianjiazhaiMt. Ailao, Yunnan
    • ELEVATION1800 m
    • Qianjiazhai AssamicaTea Varietal

    This 2023 Zun harvest is offered in both dragon pearls (25g bags of 4-5 pearls) and in two larger pressings: 100g cakes and 357g cakes

    This is the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative's "Zun" harvest - a designation chosen by the cooperative that means ‘reverence’ of the ancient Qianjiazhai tea trees themselves. "Zun" also points to human collaboration with a living tree that has existed long before us and - hopefully - will continue to exist for generations to come.

    The Zun harvest uses 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 sweetness and dried fruit with the support of wild mountain herbs and intense textural depth.

25g packages of 4-5 dragon pearls
357g cake pressing
100g mini cake pressing
  • true
    90
    peach, bergamot zest
    true
    50
    honeysuckle
    true
    90
    allspice, cedar
    true
    90
    molasses cake, whipped cream
    false
    true
    tingling, aged pu'er profile

    Tasting Profile

    • fruit - peach, bergamot zest
    • floral - honeysuckle
    • spice - allspice, cedar
    • savory - molasses cake, whipped cream
    • texture - tingling, aged pu'er profile

the Dongsa Cooperative also recommends:

  1. 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.
  2. 2023 Loose Leaf Gu Hua Sheng
    2023 Loose Leaf Gu Hua Sheng

    Craft and terroir have come together beautifully for this 2023 early autumn harvest from Qianjiazhai's wild tea trees. The Dongsa Cooperative wild-forages buds and tender leaves from tea trees between one hundred and three hundred years of age for this loose sheng pu'er blend. Every hand-picked leaf is withered and sun-dried in bamboo baskets, with little or no heat exposure to lock in the most wild and natural flavor of one of the most remote growing regions in the world.
  3. 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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