Spring harvested in 2012 from sheng puer tea, grown in natural conditions.
A tea with a dried fruity character, long finish and pleasant old notes, aged for 5 years on Jingmai Mountain, followed by the town of Puer.
Worth a taste for those who have not tried old sheng puer tea.
Spring harvested in 2012, sheng puer tea from tea plants grown in natural conditions.
The tea has a long finish with a dried fruity character and pleasant old notes, aged for 5 years on Jingmai Mountain, followed by the city of Puer.
Worth a try for those who have not tried old sheng puer tea.
How to prepare this sheng puer tea?
Use 5-7 gr tea leaves for about 150 ml of the device, then pour several times after a quick wake-up. Infusion times should be 15-30 seconds. As you progress in your tea steeping, you can increase the time and the temperature of the water. We recommend using water between 90-95 degrees for this tea.
Categories of Puer tea trees - tea bushes:
The categories in use today are the following, which refers to the name of the tea, in our case Nanzuo Lao Shengtai (Nanzuo = name of a mountain, Lao= old tea, Shengtai= a natural (organic) tea garden that is not tended, completely wild, plants of tea gardens planted in the old days (circa 1950s).
- Gu Shu 古树: ancient tea tree, certainly older than 500 years,
- Da Shu 大树: large tree, or old tree Lao Shu 老树,
- Shengtai 生态: Natural tea gardens, ecological, primeval tea bushes growing in wild conditions, 50-80 years old, which were once plantations.
- Qiao Mu - 乔木: also a wild tree, growing in groves, very tall, straight-stemmed variety, tea plant over 60 years old.
- Tai Di 台地: plantation tea gardens.
This is how a wild tea is known, its leaves are very large compared to the usual. The stems of the leaves are also longer and thicker. If the stems are pulled apart after brewing, thin, cobweb-like, sticky fibres still hold the dissected stems together. They are very flowery and perfumed teas, and have a very strong effect. The infusions become sweeter as they progress. The flavor may fade, but the sweetness lingers for a long time.
