Another Shou Menghai snob alert. I had never heard of a Cha Tou which is “a kind of tea nugget that forms naturally from the pressures of compression and heat that occurs during the fermentation process”. My interest was peaked so I ordered a 250g brick. For $22, this tea is a steal!!! The soup is a beautiful mahogany color. The taste is not only a wonderful earthy flavor that is a joy to the taste buds, it stays with you long after you have drunk the tea. This is another very consistent tea. I am on steeping six and it really does taste like the first steeping. Shou, Menghai, delicious, I see a trend here.
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That’s a great find, congrats!
Good stuff! I get a brick of this each year. I have them back to 2007. The only downside is you have to let them set a year or so to get the fermented funk out of them . Re-steeps fantastically. It is made a lot of times with several years of nuggets when they press the bricks….Forgot to say …Menghai shou snob here also…
That’s a great find, congrats!
Good stuff! I get a brick of this each year. I have them back to 2007. The only downside is you have to let them set a year or so to get the fermented funk out of them . Re-steeps fantastically. It is made a lot of times with several years of nuggets when they press the bricks….Forgot to say …Menghai shou snob here also…