Bamboo Fragrance (Xiang Zhu) from Silk Road Teas

Bamboo Fragrance (Xiang Zhu)

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Campfire, Dark Wood, Smoke, Smoked, Vegetal
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Caffeine
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 12 oz / 354 ml

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Light, malty taste, subtle note of bamboo scent.
Recognizing that Pu-erh comes in many, many shapes, sizes and forms, this 10-inch round bamboo shoot stuffed with green or “sheng” leaves should be no surprise. First flush of spring tea, from Naka Mountain, the leaves are steam softened and then tamped into sections of bamboo. Approximately 80 grams of leaf was hand stuffed into each shoot. then slowly fired. This traditional process imparts a… Read more

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Had an urge for something lighter this afternoon, and got a bit of a surprise with this sheng pu-erh. After wrestling it from the tightly packed bamboo shoot, I gave it a quick rinse, then steeped it for 2-minutes at about 205-degrees.

We weren’t sure what to expect from a “bamboo scented” tea, so it didn’t exceed or come up short in any way. The liquor is a beautiful hue of golden amber with a somewhat vegetal aroma. The flavor, however, is very smoky. Unlike other sheng we’ve sampled, there was no hunting for the flavor to hit or reveal itself. Campfire, smoke, wood. Pleasant, but distinct.

If you like Lapsang Souchong, you’ll probably love this tea.

Flavors: Campfire, Dark Wood, Smoke, Smoked, Vegetal

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 12 OZ / 354 ML
1 comment
ashmanra 8 years ago

I am a coward with sheng. I start them off at low temps, maybe 175F, until I am sure they won’t try to murder me.

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