Three Cranes Liu Bao "1815 Recipe" - Tea Brick

Flavor: Woodsy with honey sweetness, forest floor, smooth, medicinal, smooth, nutty, hint of smoke, and umami.

While this tea can be brewed now, it will be best aged for a few years. If you like the forest and big trees, you'll like this. If you close your eyes while sipping this tea it's easy to imagine you're in the middle of an old tree forest. 

Pressed in 2020 from 2018 harvested leaves then aged for 2 years in loose leaf form before being blended and pressed into this 2 kilogram brick in 2020 by The Three Cranes Tea Factory of Wuzhou.

This is a classic style "light piled" Liu Bao tea was first introduced in the late 1980's using the 1815 recipe. It's considered a ripe Liu Bao.

Liu Bao tea (AKA "Six Forts" tea) is a type of Chinese dark tea also referred to as “grandpa and grandchildren tea”, which means the tea made by grandpa is reserved for the grandchildren. It is native to the Liu Bao Town of Cangwu County in Guangxi Province. Liu Bao tea is made from a handful of varietals of Camellia sinensis var. sinensis local to Guangxi Province.

Newly produced Liu Bao tea is usually aged for a few years to increase its complexity and flavor. It's commonlly handed down from generation to generation. It is thought that the more aged the Liu Bao tea, the more valuable it is - sometimes true.

This fermented, aged Liu Bao tea has a beneficial bacteria called Jin Hua (golden flower), also called Eurotium cristatum in biology. This type of beneficial bacteria can produce a variety of enzymes to catalyze the transformation of various substances in tea, forming a unique color, fragrance, and taste of the tea.

This 2 kilogram brick comes carefully protected and packaged for shipping.