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Gan Lu (Sweet Dew)

Gan Lu (Sweet Dew)

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A traditional story holds that the Gan Lu tea plant was first cultivated by the legendary Buddhist monk, Wu Li Zhen. After he attained Nirvana, the local folk around the Meng Mountains nicknamed this tea "Xian Cha", which means "Tea of the Immortal."

Benefits:

 

Taste:

 As its name suggests, this is a refreshing tea with a very sweet aftertaste.

Brewing:

This Green tea is suitable any kind of tea pot, but we suggested Gaiwan suits much better.

Brewing methods:

 2 Brewing methods:
  1. Traditional KungFu Tea:
    1. Warm up the tea pot with the boiling water, put 4-6 grams of tea, and pour small amount of the boiling water into the tea and pour out.
    2. Then pour boiling water (85°C / 185°F) and cover tea pot for 15-25 second for first serving, the tea must totally separate after time out.
    3. Next infusion can be add extra 10-20 sec on each, up till 5 to 6 infusions.
  2. Regular big teapot:
    1. Warm up the tea pot with the boiling water, put 6-8 grams of tea, and pour small amount of the boiling water into the tea and pour out.
    2. Then pour boiling water (85°C / 185°F) and cover tea pot for 1-2 minutes for first serving, the tea must totally separate after time out.
    3. Next infusion can be add extra 1 min on each, only up till 2 to 3 infusions.

Additional information:

This is one of the traditional ways of brewing. Depending on individual gustatory preferences you can you can vary brewing time from 20 sec to 5 minutes.

Please note, that it is natural tea with high content of active elements, including caffeine, and minerals and some unusual feelings could appear. In that case we recommend decrease quantity of dry leaves and brewing time.

Origin:

Meng Mountain, Sichuan Province, China

 Harvest/Produced:

2020
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