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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.
Recommend Brewing Method
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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.
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’.