Jingmai Arbor Raw Pu-erh Ecological Tea Cake
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Basic Info
Name: Jingmai Arbor Raw Puerh Ecological Tea Cake
Origin: Jingmai , Yunnan
Taste & Aroma: Pleasant rich aroma, floral and honey aroma notes (orchid sweet) with a lingering, long-lasting mellow finish
Item Form: Cake tea
Liquor: Yellowish,clear and bright
Season: Spring tea
Ingredients: Hand-picked natural tea buds and leaves from Arbor tea trees
Storage: Stored in dry and temperate conditions. Keep away from odors. The longer it stored, the better it tastes.
Caffeine: Low
Shelf Life: 10 - 20 years
Flavor: unflavored
Harvest Period: 2014
Sourcing : Teapooo ( Aged in Yunnan in a traditional dry storage condition)
Jingmai Arbor Raw Pu-erh Ecological Tea Cake
This is a special 2014 Spring harvested pu'erh tea cake. Aged in Yunnan in a dry storage condtion until this year. It's aged for several years and very smooth to drink and has plenty of complexity. You may find this cake has strong taste in first few sips.
Fresh leaves used for making this cake are from large-leaf Pu'erh Qiao Mu (Arbor tree) in Jingmai Mountain, located in the southwest of Yunnan Province. This tea has a wonderfully sweet and orchid sweet aroma character along with mild chocolate bitter, and lightly astringent mouth feel.
Qiao Mu: Arbor tree. As opposed to a shrub, it refers to the arborescent tea tree from which the cake tea is made.
Jingmai Mountain
Jingmai Mountain, located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, has maintained its unique simplicity and mystery for thousands of years. It intersects Menghai County of Xishuangbanna in the east and borders Myanmar in the west. Jingmai Mountain is famous for pu 'erh tea.According to research, tea growing here has a history of nearly 2,000 years. Ancient tea mountain covers jingmai, Mangjing, Manghong and other 9 Blang, Dai and Hani villages. According to research, tea growing here has a history of nearly 2,000 years. Ancient tea mountains covers Jingmai, Mangjing, Manghong and other nie Blang, Dai and Hani villages. The ancient tea mountains in Mangjing and Jingmai is the best model of the integration of human and nature, and also the original place of Pu 'er tea.
For the first time in history, people applied for world Heritage for a tea mountain - Jingmai Tea Mountain, here is the origin of cultivated tea trees in the world.
As one of the origins of tea culture in the world, Jingmai Tea Mountain has a history of nearly 2,000 years. At present, there are 28,000 mu of ancient tea resources, which is the most intact, oldest and largest artificial cultivation ancient tea garden in the world. Therefore, Jingmai Tea Mountain has the reputation of the natural museum of world tea culture and history.
Villages on
Jingmai Mountain
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The most harmonious way of getting along with nature and human beings is displayed here incisively and vividly. Ancient tea trees and towering ancient trees, mountains and villages, ancient tea trees and farmhouses coexist in harmony. Tea is planted in every village and every family has tea trees. People and tea trees are accompanied by each other and depend on each other on this land.
Growing environment
The ecological environment here is good, tea trees have not been artificially dwarfed, and mixed with the original ancient trees on the mountain, this kind of mixed growth is one of the sources of the unique and strong aroma of Jingmai tea. Because these tea trees are very old, so in appearance appear to have experienced vicissitudes of life, by the wind and frost. The branches of tea trees are covered with mosses, vines, wild fungi, many parasitic orchids and other appendages, as well as crab feet, a parasite shaped like crabs.
Characteristics of Jingmai tea:
Arbor tea tree
1.The tea trees are old.The tea trees in the ancient tea garden are mainly those of more than one hundred years old.The whole ancient tea garden covers an area of 28,000 mu, and there are 12,000 mu of tea trees available for picking, which is the original place of Pu 'er tea.
2. The ecological environment is good. Tea trees have not been artificially dwarfed and are mixed with the original ancient trees on the mountain, which is one of the sources of unique and strong aroma of Jingmai tea.
3. Mixed with the forest, with a strong mountain flavor, Jingmai tea is one of the most typical ancient tea trees with wild flavor, but also has a special, rich, lasting fragrance ( Orchid fragrance is the unique fragrance of Jingmai tea ).
4. Jingmai tea has a distinct and long sweet aftertaste.It has a distinct and persistent sweet aftertaste with a slight bitterness, which is less pronounced than the astringency.
5.Made from leaves that are tightly rolled into strips the finished cake surface is shiny black .
6. Jingmai tea can be steeped above 10 times. The longer the tea ages, the more obvious the aroma will be.
| Chinese Gongfu Method | |
| Tea | 10g |
| Water | Gaiwan (3oz/90ml) |
| Time | 12 steeps: 2 rinses,10s,20s,25s,30s,35s,40s,50s,60s,1m10s,1m30s,2m,2m30s |
| Temperature | 100ºC/212ºF |
| Teapot Method | |
| Tea | 10g |
| Water | Teapot (8oz/240ml) |
| Time | 5 steeps:30s,1m,2m,3m,4m |
| Temperature | 100ºC/212ºF |
