Gushu White Tea from Youle Mountain (15 mini tea cakes per box)
The white tea made from Gushu material (old trees about 200 years old) in Youle Mountain, Yunnan Province, China. Pesticide-free and fertilizer-free. Picking the leaves consists of 1 bud and 2 leaves, like a Fuding Bai Mu Tan. The white tea processing is sun-dry / sun-wither which is different from Fujian white tea processing.
Yunnan Da Ye Zhong (big tea leaves) which is on the one hand the original tea plant Camellia sinensis var. assamica which carries more nutrients and flavors than small tea leaves. The tea can be brewed many times.
The dry leaves have a heavenly aroma like honey, dried apricots and a garden full of exotic flowers. Spent leaves in Gaiwan give off a peach-like aroma. In general, this white tea is characterized by an extraordinary harmonious aroma at the end.
Yunnan white tea is known to have a fruity and sweet taste and a very subtle bitterness like the skin of a chestnut. Nuances of honey, Peach, nectar are recognizable.
Most Yunnan white teas are also more astringent and drier on the tongue than a white tea made Fuding. It has the sweetness and fruitiness that make a good white tea out Yunnan stand, but it's also silky, thick, and less astringent than a normal Yunnan White (perhaps because it's a Gushu material).
How to brew it?
If you brew the mini cake in a mug, please break the tea cakes into 2 pieces. Brew 1/2 tea cake with boiling water in the mug.
If you brew the mini cake in 100 ml Gai Wan with Gong Fu Brewing, you can infuse it more than 8 times with boiling water.
If you like cold brew, please brew with cold water for more than 6 hours or ice brew overnight.