2013/2019 Chaze 'Da Huang Yin' Yellow Label Ripe Pu Erh Tea Cake 357g

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This exceptionally smooth, ripe pu erh tea is made from tea leaves harvested in 2013 and pressed into cakes in 2019. It features delightful aroma palette of rice, nuts, cream, red fruits, mint, and a refreshing sweetness. There's also something really special about this tea, which we believe really stands out: excellent 'Chen Xiang'. You can read more about this below.

This Yellow Label tea cake from the Chaze factory is made from premium material (1 bud, 2-3 leaves) from the Menghai tea region. The tea leaves are picked from wild trees in the region with an age of 100 years or more.

Chen Xiang: The Fragrance of Age.

The term 'Chen Xiang' is something that often appears in the world of pu erh tea, and we think it's used too excessively. The term literally translates to 'the fragrance of age'. Chen Xiang is hard to describe, but must be experienced.

Ripe pu erh tea, like the on you see on this page, doesn't transform that much with age like raw pu erh tea. Yet, Chen Xiang may develop when a ripe pu erh tea is made from high quality material, balanced and not to aggressive processing, and optimally stored. That's exactly what this pu erh tea cake represents, and why we've added it to our collection.

Origin

Brand: Chaze Tea Factory
Year: 2013
Season: Spring
Origin: Menghai
Leaf grade: wild tea leaves
Varietal (cultivar): large leaf Assamica (Da Ye Zhong)
Type: pu erh tea
Weight: 357g
Type: ripe (shou)
Series/recipe: Yellow Label (Da Huang Yin)
Shape: pu erh tea cake

How to Steep

How to make this Chaze Yellow label pu erh tea?

There are two methods to prepare this tea:

Gongfu brewing

Brew 5 gram with 100 ml of water at 100 °C. Steep for 15 seconds and gradually increase the steeping time for every next infusion.

Western brewing

Steep 3 gram with 350 ml of water at 100 °C. Apply a brewing time of 3 minutes and add 1 minute for each next infusion.

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How this ripe pu erh tea is made

Picking
Tea leaves are hand-picked in the morning.
Withering
The leaves are spread on bamboo trays to wither.
Fixation
The withered leaves are heated to halt oxidation.
Rolling
Tea leaves are rolled to release their aroma.
Sun drying
Rolled leaves are spread on bamboo mats to sun-dry.
Fermentation
The leaves are post-fermented in a controlled environment.
Pressing
The post fermented tea is steamed & compressed.
Packaging
The compressed tea is wrapped in paper & packed in boxes.

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Brewing: 6g/100ml, 100°C, flash rinse, 30s, 20s, +5s.

Warmed-up dry leaves smell of stone fruit, spices and wood. When wet, the wood intensifies.

The liquor tastes of old wood, stone fruit and caramel. A very complex, yet smooth and clear taste.

Compared to the red label version of this tea, this cake was much drier, suggesting different storage conditions. The first session was underwhelming, so I broke the cake and let the pieces rest for a couple of weeks in a cardboard box, inside a slightly ventilated cupboard. That did the trick and the tea woke up and became spectacular.

It maintains much more woodiness than the red label, where that was converted almost completely into fruitiness, resulting in a different taste profile. It's fascinating that these two teas were produced from the same (or very similar?) batch of loose leaves, at the same factory, in the same year.

It's also nice to see this trend of higher-quality aged shou pu-erh, with clear, smooth and complex taste. I hope the market for it develops enough that more high-quality "big leaf" material gets processed as shou instead of all of it ending up as sheng.

Our design work is inspired by the artwork “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by the Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty. Instead of displaying the daily lives of people in the capital of China (as the original artwork), we display the tea making process of farmers through the same bird’s eye perspective.

When examining our packaging design in detail, tea enthusiasts will observe the tea making process, featuring tea farmers picking, drying, rolling, and frying tea leaves. The tea is then tasted in a pavilion and transported by horses along the ‘ancient tea road’.

Together, the traditional Chinese landscape and tea making theme, symbolise heritage, tradition, and respect for hard work of tea farmers.

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2013/2019 Chaze 'Da Huang Yin' Yellow Label Ripe Pu Erh Tea Cake 357g