2022 Yunnan Sourcing "You Le Mountain" White Tea Cake from Yunnan Sourcing

2022 Yunnan Sourcing "You Le Mountain" White Tea Cake

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Apricot, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bark, Bitter, Bread, Burnt Food, Cooling, Floral, Flowers, Fur, Grape Skin, Grassy, Herbaceous, Meat, Moss, Sage, Sweet, White Wine
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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 3 oz / 100 ml

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  • “A very good white tea that is on the bitter and savoury side of the spectrum. The aroma is sweet and flowery, but it also reminds me of fur, apricots, and autumn leaf pile. The first infusion is a...” Read full tasting note
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This is a Spring 2022 harvested from You Le mountain! Instead of being processed into Pu-erh tea, it was processed into a spectacular white tea!

You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway between Jing Hong and Yi Wu. The tea was picked and processed entirely by hand by the growers themselves in a protected area (国有林) near the village of Sheng Niu (生牛). The tea is tippy and healthy and is covered with downy silver fur. The raw material is almost entirely intact leaf and bud sets and so stone-compression was used to preserve the natural beauty of this tea.

The brew itself is full and round. The very characteristic You Le taste is present, fragrant with some floral notes, sweet and full in the mouth but with a vegetal bitterness present. An excellent single-estate You Le tea! Just 60 kilograms produced in total!

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Net Weight: 357 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Harvest/Pressing Time: April 2022

Harvest Area: Ya Nuo village of You Le mountain, Jing Hong Shi, Xi Shuang Banna prefecture of Yunnan

Total Production amount: 60 Kilograms

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A very good white tea that is on the bitter and savoury side of the spectrum.

The aroma is sweet and flowery, but it also reminds me of fur, apricots, and autumn leaf pile.

The first infusion is a bit grassy and warming with a cooling finish. Second one is quite bitter with notes of bark, moss, and grape skins. Later I found also flavours of lamb meat and bread crust.

The tea has a soft mouthfeel and medium body. Its aftertaste is long, sweet, and fragrant with a numbing mouthfeel. There are notes of herbs (sage), white wine, and florals.

Flavors: Apricot, Autumn Leaf Pile, Bark, Bitter, Bread, Burnt Food, Cooling, Floral, Flowers, Fur, Grape Skin, Grassy, Herbaceous, Meat, Moss, Sage, Sweet, White Wine

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
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