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2024 Qimen Maofeng Green Tea

2024 Qimen Maofeng Green Tea

This 2024 Spring harvest is available for pre-order! ETA: end of May 2024
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Decadent downy buds
Made only with delicate early spring buds, finished with minimal processing to lock in soft mineral texture and notes of pear, clover honey and cardamom.
Made only with delicate early spring buds, finished with minimal processing to lock in soft mineral texture. The fresh 2024 harvest is now picked and available for pre-order!
Spring 2023 ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
ETA: end of May ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
Decadent downy buds
Made only with delicate early spring buds, finished with minimal processing to lock in soft mineral texture and notes of pear, clover honey and cardamom.
Made only with delicate early spring buds, finished with minimal processing to lock in soft mineral texture. The fresh 2024 harvest is now picked and available for pre-order!
Spring 2023 ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
ETA: end of May ♦ Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
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SPRING 2024 PRE-ORDER

This spring 2024 pre-order tea from the Cheng Family in Anhui is available to reserve on pre-order while supplies last.

This tea is expected to arrive by the end May. Orders containing this pre-order tea will wait to ship until all teas in your order have arrived. 

Crafted By the Cheng Family

Dedicated craftspeople and farmers, the Cheng Family has a beautiful, high-elevation plot above Guixi Village, an excellent micro-climate for Qimen Black Tea in Anhui.
 
Master Cheng picks the tiny buds for his family's teas at the very peak of spring and finishes them by hand in his tiny workshop, coaxing out complexity and the underlying minerality of rocky Huangshan.
    • DATE OF PICKINGMarch 2024
    • Guixi VillageQimen, Anhui
    • ELEVATION200 METERS
    • Zhu Ye ZhongTea Varietal

    The famous Huangshan Maofeng is all about beautiful, perfect buds that dance in the teapot like silver needle white tea or Dragonwell. The Cheng Family picks their Pre-Qing Ming early spring buds on their high elevation mountain plot near Qimen and Huangshan entirely by hand to preserve their perfect shape, and works to quickly finish the buds with minimal heat and withering time, locking in fresh flavor and deep minerality that shows off the textural complexity of one of the finest green teas in the world.

  • true
    80
    clover honey, violet
    true
    60
    candied pear
    true
    60
    fresh cream, marshmallow
    true
    40
    cardamom, sandalwood
    false
    true
    mineral-laden, soft

    Tasting Profile

    • floral - clover honey, violet
    • fruit - candied pear
    • savory - fresh cream, marshmallow
    • spice - cardamom, sandalwood
    • texture - mineral-laden, soft

the Cheng Family also recommends:

  • 'Dancong is an alluring, deeply aromatic tea that changes over each steeping and lingers on the palate for hours. Properly brewing Fenghuang Dancong requires more care than many other teas, but the extra attention is worth the reward'

  • 5-10
    6-8
    208
    30 seconds
    40
    5
    6
    200
    6 seconds
    15
    10
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5-10 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 208° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 40 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 200° watersteep 6 seconds
    add 15 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    10 g.12
    oz.
    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours
    add ice & enjoy

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