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2022 Xiaguan 1st Grade Loose Leaf Tea

€12,95 EUR

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For a tea company specialised in compressed tea, it's rare to see Xiaguan launch a loose leaf tea. This is a light fermented ripe pu erh tea consisting of small tea leaves. Enjoy complex yet very accessible flavours of sweet dates, malt and wet wood. Due to subtle post-fermentation, this tea also has characteristics of a sweet Chinese black tea.

Origin

Year: 2022
Season: Spring
Production date: 12 Mar 2022
Origin: Dali
Leaf grade: natural tea gardens
Varietal (cultivar): large leaf Assamica (Da Ye Zhong)
Type: ripe (shou)
Weight: 100g

How to Steep

How to make Xiaguan 1st grade tea?

There are two methods to prepare this loose leaf pu erh tea:

Gongfu brewing

Brew 4 gram with 120 ml of water at 100 °C. Steep for 10 seconds and add 5 seconds for each infusion.

Western brewing

Steep 3 gram with 350 ml of water at 100 °C. Apply a brewing time of 1-2 minutes and add 30 seconds for each next infusion.

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Returns: orders can be returned for a refund within 30 days. Products should returned in unopened, unused condition.

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Brewing: 7g/100ml, 100°C, 10s, +5s.

Warmed-up dry leaves smell of exotic woods. When wet, tobacco notes appear.

The liquor has multiple layers of wood, some tobacco and just a touch of wet forest funkiness. There is a nice medicinal aftertaste - like old resin with the echo of long-forgotten spices.

This is an interesting example of depth without complexity: few aroma types, but layered. For my palate, there needs to be a high leaf-to-water ratio for the tea to unveil itself properly.

I'm giving it four out of five stars because I like shou woodiness to be balanced by some fruitiness and spiced up by... spices. A matter of taste, of course.

Good value for the price. This ripe puer tea is more on the spicy spectrum of the style. It has good potency as well. I like it!

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.