Otherside - Chiang Rai Gushu Shai Hong 2024 - 100g
Otherside - Chiang Rai Gushu Shai Hong 2024 - 100g
Otherside - Chiang Rai Gushu Shai Hong 2024 - 100g
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Sun-dried black tea (shai hong) sourced from the Giang Rai region, in northern Thailand, a well-known area where old tea trees used for puerh production grow.
The trees are often in hard-to-reach locations and are always hand-picked.
The altitude of the hand-picked trees is around 950 m, the cultivar is Camelia sinensis, variety Assamica and the age of the Gushu trees is given by the producer as well over the 200 year old base (Gushu = 200 years or more). I don't want to argue over the exact age, what is important is the flavour and character of the tea, the yield in infusions. From this one can distinguish whether it is Gushu or shrub tea.
A delicate, complex and refined black tea with a floral-honey aroma, a taste of dried exotic fruit, with a hint of cocoa on the edge and a lingering sweet aftertaste. A black tea very suitable for sheng puerh drinkers and of course for red tea lovers. It has a great stamina, can withstand many infusions.
The tea is suitable for aging, it gradually rounds in taste and shows more notes of dried fruit, sweetness. However, it is already delicious now.
Cake design by Pauser. Olomouc native, streetart artist and designer. His unique and distinctive style gave it the proper juice.
I'm very happy for this collaboration. We have known each other for many years, but it took me a while to ask :). So this year the cookies are really unmissable!
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Brewing for 100ml - Gong fu Cha - 4-5g, 90°C, 20-30s first and second infusion, then extend the interval, according to the taste of each tea drinker.