Factory: Tong Qing Hao
Harvest Year: 2010
Type: Ripe/Shu
Harvest Area: Xishuangbanna
This quality cake is smooth and clean, with a slight red goji berry aroma. It contains tea from 2006, 2008, and 2010 harvests from the Menghai and Nan Nuo mountain areas.
To see a slideshow of where this tea comes from visit Yang Su's Xishuangbanna Trip.
Amount to use: 1 tablespoon of tea to 3/4 of a cup of water (5g tea to 178ml water, or 0.18oz tea to 6oz water.) This tea can be brewed about 10 times.
How to brew: Gently loosen tea from the edge of the tea cake using your hand, a tea pick or a butter knife. Place the
tea in the teapot. Add *195 degree F (90 C) water to the teapot to awaken and clean the tea. Immediately pour out and discard the water. Rinse the tea and discard the water a second time. Finally, add water and brew 8-25 seconds. Serve. Be careful not to over brew this tea.
*This temperature may be approximated by:
1) Heating water until medium bubbles form or
2) Removing a pot of boiling water from its heat source and letting it sit for about 5 minutes.
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