Product Specifications & Description
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Tea Type: Ripe puerh (shou cha / 熟茶)
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Vintage: 2009
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Factory: XiaGuan Tea Factory (下关茶厂)
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Product Name & Format: "Mei Hua" (Plum Blossom / 梅花) compressed tea cake, 125g format.
Flavor Profile & Brewing Characteristics
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Dry Leaf & Aroma: Tight, neatly pressed leaves showing maturity, featuring a deep woody, aged, and mildly camphoraceous aroma with subtle undertones of damp forest floor and date pit.
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Liquor & Mouthfeel: Rich chestnut-red to deep garnet liquor. The body is smooth, thick, and mellow, carrying the characteristic clean sweetness of well-stored XiaGuan ripe material without heavy fermentation harshness.
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Taste Evolution: Initial notes of aged wood, jujube, and subtle herbal camphor transition into a lingering, sweet, cooling finish (huigan) with minimal astringency.
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Brewing Recommendations:
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Water Temperature: Boiling water is necessary to fully open up the tightly pressed 2009 leaves.
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Vessel: Ideal for Yixing Zi Ni (purple clay) teapots, which help smooth out any remaining mature edges and amplify the tea's natural sweetness and body.
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Rinsing: Requires one or two quick hot water rinses to awaken the aged leaves.
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