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Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea | Luxury Single-Serve Gift Set

Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea | Luxury Single-Serve Gift Set

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Summary

Origin: Dieshi Town, Fuding City, Fujian Province, China

Harvest Date: August 20, 2018

Production Date: July 20, 2020

Net Weight: About 5g per ball

Plucking Standard: One bud with three or four leaves and few four opened leaves

Dry Leaf:  The tea leaves are made into tight balls, gray-brown in color with a small amount of white pekoe

Aroma:  Pekoe aroma, slight jujube fragrance

Liquor:  Bright and clear yellow

Taste: Soft and smooth, with obvious sweet and jujube fragrance

Tea Bush: Fuding Dabaihao

Tea Garden: Jiaoyang Tea Garden

Caffeine: Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee)

Storage: Store in cool, dry place away from sunlight; keep ventilated

Shelf Life: The aged the better

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Details

This Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea is harvested in 2018, and shaped into dragon balls in 2020. Each ball is individually packed and weights about 5g, which is very convenient to brew, store and carry out. It has obvious sweet and jujube aroma, tastes soft and smooth. Besides, it can brew many steeps and also very suitable for boiling. Two-year of aging has given it a mellow mouthfeel; we believe that it will get better and better along with years.

  • Cup Method

    Teacup: 12oz / 355ml

    203℉ / 95℃

    1 tea ball

    Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins

  • Chinese Gongfu Method

    Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml

    203℉ / 95℃

    1 tea ball

    8 steeps: rinse, 30s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 100s, 120s, 150s

    Rinse time is around 5 seconds

Tea Garden

Our Golden Monkey black tea comes from Fuding in Fujian province, on the southeastern Chinese coast. The tropical and mountainous coastal climate here is perfect for growing tea. The area receives abundant rainfall, with misty spring days and mild temperatures through both summer and winter; the mountains around this region are almost completely forested, ensuring a high natural fertility of the soil and organic content, which in turn eliminates the need to use fertilizers.

Origin

This Shou Mei cake was produced in Fuding, a famous center of tea production located in northeastern Fujian Province. This area is of the subtropical monsoon climate characteristic of coastal areas, with an average annual temperature of 18.5C and rainfall of around 1661mm.

Tea Master

As we all know, the world’s white tea is in China, and Chinese white tea is in Fuding. Mr. Chen was born in Fuding, Fujian Province. He has been influenced by tea since he was a child. It seems that he came with the mission of inheriting white tea culture from the moment he was born. He has been engaged in tea cultivation and production for more than 30 years, and has always adhered to the principle of "quality first" for many years. He is not only a successful tea industry operator, but also an excellent inheritor of white tea culture, allowing more people to taste and understand Fuding white tea.

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Tea Bush

This cake is made of the leaves of the Fuding Dabaihao plant, called Dahao for short. It is a small tree that propagates asexually.
In 1985, Dahao was certified as a national variety of tea plant. It grows up to 2.8m tall with a thick trunk. The tea from the spring leaves of the bush contains 1.8% amino acids and 28.2% tea polyphenols, which marks it as a high-quality base for making white tea in particular.


History

Tea has been grown in Fujian for centuries as an ever-important staple of commerce and trade throughout ancient China. Originally, the process of drying the leaves was followed by a variation of hot-air drying and sun-drying, a meticulous step intended to remove excess water from the leaves to ease the preservation process and preserve the tea for sale. The leaves of tea dried in this way were often compared to the eyebrows of Shouxing, the longest-living man in mythology. It is from this myth that Shou Mei earned its name, from the Chinese for “long curved eyebrow”, 眉毛, or ‘meimao’.