2008 Liu-an Sun Yi Shun Brand Bamboo Basket Tea 250gr

Category: Hei Cha

Country: China

Harvest: 2008

Producer: Sun Yi Shun Tea Factory

Shop: Cha Wang Shop

Tags: Tea from 2005 till 2010

Description:

The original taste of young Liu-an is more near green tea. Today as before, its popularity lead many companies to fake Sun Yi Shun liu an baskets. Many businessmen moisturize a young tea wet to be more "old". So maybe in the past you drank some bitter and "aged tea". We want to guarantee you high quality and original Sun Yi Shun traditional Liu-an tea. We suggest you can try some sample for taste.

Liu-an is a post-fermented tea usually compressed into bamboo baskets and aged. The majority of Liu-an is produced in and around Luxi and Rongkou village, Qimen County, Anhui Province, China. Sun Yi Shun is the most famous brand of Liu-an because of its superior production´s quality and it has more than one hundred years history. The tea is from a small leaf variety of Camellia sinensis. The aging process of Liu-an is even more complicated than Liu An Gua Pian. It were baked over a small fire and braized into a small bamboo basket. The process and storage is similar to Pu-erh. It is a kind of Hei Cha. Liu-an is traditionally brewed by gongfu style. Also it is a tradition to brew a piece of the bamboo wrapping with the tea together. Medicinally, dried aged mandarin orange peel is sometimes added to the tea, though this might add unsavory seasoning to unglazed pots, such as yixing teapots. This Liu-an 250gr. pack is plucked spring tea around Guyu (Grain Rain-6th solar term), it tastes like a special green tea that is fermented. The mouthfeel is long, rich and sweet.