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紫娟
Category selection of Purple variety tea Zi Juan.
A reputedly scarce purple-leaf Yunnan (云南) Da Ye (大叶) cultivar,
high in Anthocyanin "hua qing su" (花青素), developed in the 1980s
from Nannuoshan (南糯山) sources, used for lücha (绿茶)
and pu’ercha (普洱茶), literally Purple Beauty
紫娟
Category selection of Purple variety tea Zi Juan.
A reputedly scarce purple-leaf Yunnan (云南) Da Ye (大叶) cultivar,
high in Anthocyanin "hua qing su" (花青素), developed in the 1980s
from Nannuoshan (南糯山) sources, used for lücha (绿茶)
and pu’ercha (普洱茶), literally Purple Beauty
Purple variety sheng pu-erh from Pu'er area. This one is bit different from what we had back in 2017 and the 2019 one we also offer. The 1 year storage in Simao has done it's job on transformation and the original herbal notes has been almost replaced by sweet fruit / dark plum with touch of wild mushrooms. Not the wet storage but certain characteristics...
Spring harvest of purple variety tea leafs and buds processed as black ( red ) tea. Low temperature drying and long time in order to simulate the Sun dried technique called Shai Hong and final short hit of high temperature to bring up the sweetness. Sweet and will get slightly bitter with harder infusions , yet very nice tea with typical purple variety...
Just a simple name for change from all those complicated Chinese names like " Shen Tai Zi Juan" which is the actual name of this purple variety sheng pu-erh tea cake has a typical pink-ish color tea soup with fruity-plummy notes along the classical sheng pu-erh bitterness. Very decent purple sheng for good value!
Purple variety sheng pu-erh from Pu'er area hand rolled and pressed into the " Dragon balls" . Purple-ish tea liquor is sweet with touch of peaches and wild flowers in combination with slight bitterness and astringency ( which can adjust by temp. and steeping time ) making it well balanced. Without that , we believe, it would be just too sweet and not...
Purple variety sheng pu-erh from Puer area. Purple-ish tea liquor is sweet with touch of prunes and noticeable notes of chamomile. It's quite an interesting tea because it feels like drinking herbal tea with plum juice. There are various versions of this particular sheng differencing by the processing. We have chosen traditional sun dried for it's unique...
Very interesting concept of processing purple tea variety Zijuan. Simply sun dried as white tea, without any kill green processing like sheng puerh. So basically it's a white tea made of purple tea leafs. Very vegetal aroma coming out the of brewed leafs is turning into the significant herbal notes in taste reminding this variety ( quite close to zijuan...
" The Wisdom " says on the wrapper in Tibetan language. Athough this medium pressed small tea cake will not make you any smarter, yet we believe the fruity-herbal notes will make your feel better in cold days. Autumn harvest from purple varietal tea leaves growing in Pu'er area and processed as sun dried black tea called " Shai Hong ". Partially opened...
Combination of Jing Gu Yue Guang Bai and Zi Juan Shai Shong ( white tea made of purple varietal leaf ) makes well balanced taste of flowery-fruity notes of YGB combined with herbal notes of Zi Juan. We recommend to start with lighter infusions in order to find your own sweet spot of this unique taste of white tea which you normally won't find on market as...