Pre-Qingming
Yuqian gradePressed flatLow bitterness
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Green · Houkeng village, Taiping, Anhui
Taiping Houkui — Yuqian
Rain-before grade · picked 5–20 April
4.6 · 10 reviews
CAD 16.50$
The grade most tea drinkers in China actually keep in the tin: a fortnight later than the famous pick, with more body and far less price.
Fuller bodyNuttier finishBetter valueEveryday grade
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Yuqian means "before the rain", the picking window that opens once the Qingming festival has passed. The leaf has had a fortnight more sun than the pre-Qingming pick, so the buds are fuller and the yield higher — which is why the grade costs noticeably less without being a lesser tea. What it trades away is the almost weightless delicacy of the earliest pick, and what it gains is body and a longer, nuttier finish.
Taiping Houkui itself comes from Houkeng village, Taiping, Anhui, grown as shidaccha, at 500 m. This lot is that same tea, handled and graded as described above — the leaf, the mountain and the maker do not change, only the picking window and the price.
- Gaiwan
- 4 g · 150 ml · 80–85 °C · 60 s, then +20 s · 4 infusions
- Western
- 2 g per 250 ml · 85 °C · 2–3 min
- Vessel
- Tall glass; the leaf is the show
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