Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage
$32.00
Garden Direct Green Tea
Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage
Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage
Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage
Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage

Gongnong Shaiqing Premium 2023 Vintage

Harvested from old-growth trees in Cangyuan, this sun-dried green tea offers a powerful, grounding energy with notes of wildflower, honey, olive leaf, orchid and ripe fruit. Crafted using traditional Shaiqing Mao Cha techniques, it preserves Pu’er’s “living tea” character, deepening in complexity over time.


About 18 Cups Of Tea

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About this tea

Gongnong Village—located in Cangyuan County, Lincang, Yunnan—provides an ideal environment for tea cultivation. Its high elevation, fertile soils and abundant rainfall yield teas of remarkable quality. Descendants of the first tea planters in human history, the local people of Cangyuan cultivate indigenous tea strains from Mengku Da Ye Zhong trees, which are renowned for the vibrant, fruity, floral and energizing character of their leaves.

Shaiqing Mao Cha, or sun-dried green tea, is the base tea for Sheng and Shu Pu’er. The harvested leaves are withered, pan-roasted, rolled and sun-dried on bamboo mats, allowing for slow oxidation and fermentation under natural UV light. This process preserves Pu’er’s signature “living tea” character, which deepens over time.

Harvested from old-growth trees in Cangyuan, this broad-leaf varietal offers a powerful, grounding energy with notes of wildflower, honey, olive leaf, orchid and ripe fruit. An elevated alternative to your everyday green tea, it showcases Pu’er in its most tender and unprocessed form.

Ingredients

Green tea

Origin

Wa Shan, Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, China

Cultivar

Mengku Da Ye Zhong

Harvest

April-May 2023

Elevation

1850 meters

Preparation
1.5 tbsp
5-7 oz
212°F
10 - 15 seconds
Traditional Tea Preparation

Add 7g to a Gaiwan or Gongfu teapot (per 150mL-200mL).

Use 212°F boiling water.

Briefly rinse leaves for 5-10 seconds. Decant and discard this rinse infusion.

Proceed to infuse the tea using boiling water. Enjoy each infusion individually and savor the flavors of each round.

Decant 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th infusions after 10 - 15 seconds. The tea infuses fast and gives out its strength in the beginning of the session. Brew the tea several times until the taste weakens.

Increase the infusion time to your taste preference after you become familiar with the tea. The strength, power and Qi forces will come out in the later brews with increased infusion time.

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Origin

Wa Shan

Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, China

Wa Shan Ecological Tea Garden sits in Lincang, on the border with Myanmar (Burma) in southwestern Yunnan. Surrounded by a lush and biodiverse mountainous region, this certified organic tea farm is one we have been working with since 2013. Wa Shan is a famous tea mountain since ancient times named after the Wa ethnic minority who have farmed tea in this region for more than a thousand years.

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