Appearance & Taste
The tea leaves are like dark brow with rich white fuzz. It has an extraordinarily impressive caramel sweet taste, combined with smooth, nutty and mellow feeling in your mouth. It also contains a soft, earthy and woody aroma. After several brews, you may find a taste of sweet jujube and an aged ‘Chen’ fragrance. The tea soup is bright, with an oily wine-red colour.
2 TEASPOONS
100°C
3-4 MINS
ENJOY!
4 TEASPOONS
100°C
3-4 MINS
ENJOY!
8 TEASPOONS
100°C
3-4 MINS
ENJOY!
Adjust the amount of tea based on your own taste
Brewing Guide
For simple glass vessel / teapot brewing:
You can brew less tea leaves with more hot water for longer brewing time. Use 2 teaspoons of the tea for 125ml teacup, 4 teaspoons for 250ml glass or 8 teaspoons for 500ml teapot. Using 100°C hot water to infuse tea leaves for around 3-4 minutes. Re-steep for around 6-7 times. Adjust it according to personal taste.
For Gongfu Style: (Recommend using (Yixing) Clay Teapot and Gaiwan)
-Detailed processes:
- Warm the Gaiwan/tiny teapot with hot water; discard the water afterwards
- Add 1g Pu’er tea for every 50ml of water (recommend 7g-10g tea leaves, adjust by personal taste)
- Pour hot water (100 °C) into the clay teapot / Gaiwan, tilt it, slowly rotating it two times and quickly discard the water (this step is for waking up tea leaves and stimulating the special aroma of the Pu’er tea)
- Refill clay teapot/Gaiwan with hot water
- Infuse tea for around 10s – 20s for first brew, extending extra 20s infusion time for the following brew.
- Pour the steeped tea into serving cup and divided into small teacups and serve
- Repeat 8-15 times depends on personal taste.
Origin
This tea was produced in Menghai County, the famous home of Pu’er tea and the earliest site of tea production in China. The area is dotted with ancient tea trees: the oldest wild tea tree here is 1,700 years old. The leaves picked from these old trees are referred to as ‘wild arbour’.
The climate there contains both tropical and subtropical characteristics. there is a southwest monsoon temperature differences across the year are small, but large from day to day. Depending on altitude, the area can be divided into northern tropical and subtropical climate zones. The annual average temperature is 18.7℃, the average annual sunshine 2,088 hours, the average annual rainfall 1,341 mm, and the annual frost around 32 days. Menghai is very often foggy, on average around 107 to 160 days a year. The soil is deep, breathable and fertile; it is slightly acidic and has good drainage. Types include red soil, yellow soil and lateritic soil, and the pH value is between 4 and 6. These are advantageous conditions for the cultivation of Pu’er tea trees.
Alice –
The nutty caramel taste and earthy aroma make this a real treat. I definitely recommend.
Sebastian –
A real connoisseur’s tea. Lovely to share over a slow meal eaten with good friends or family. A real, earthy, genuine taste.
Matilda D. –
Thank you so much! I bought this as a gift for my tea-loving boyfriend and he was so happy with it. I couldn’t recommend it enough!