RED · 125 g
Golden Eyebrows Premium / Jin Jun Mei
A bud-style Wuyi red tea with honeyed sweetness, cacao-like depth and notes of ripe fruit.
€38
Tasting qualities
Wild mountain honey / Cacao nibs / Baked plum / Velvety sweetness
Origin
Wuyi Mountains, Fujian, China
- Farmer / producer
- To be announced.
- Garden
- To be announced.
- Location
- To be announced.
- Altitude
- To be announced.
Harvest & processing
- Harvest
- To be announced.
- Processing
- To be announced.
- Lot
- To be announced.
Source story
To be announced.
A starting point to explore with your own water. Adjust the recipe to the cup you enjoy.
Gongfu · repeated infusions
Short infusions
Suggested starting point
- Tea
- 4 g
- Water
- 100 ml
- Temperature
- 90–95°C
- Time
- 10–15 sec
Infuse in a gaiwan or small teapot, pour out fully, then repeat with fresh water.
Everyday · grandpa style
Leaves in the cup
Suggested starting point
- Tea
- 2 g
- Water
- 300 ml
- Temperature
- 90°C
- Time
- Start tasting after 2 min
Leave the leaves in a roomy cup. Sip when comfortable and top up when roughly half the water remains.
Water we used
To be announced.
Our approach to brewing
We invite you to find your own way of brewing, guided by your water and your intention.
Begin with a short pour and compare sweetness with the drying finish. Small changes in time can matter with a bud-heavy tea. Increase the pause only when the cup starts to lose its body.
Our exploration
A quiet sense of direction.
Try staying with one aspect of the cup, such as its texture, without searching for every note. Carry that simple choice into your next familiar posture.
Focus · Composure and direction
| Asana | Tadasana — stand tall without bracing the abdomen. |
|---|---|
| Dantian | Lower dantian — let attention settle around your centre. |
| Chakra | Manipura — notice the solar plexus while keeping it soft. |
| Meridian | Spleen channel — follow the familiar pathway with steady attention. |
Community exploration
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Tea in the historical record.
Historical descriptions reflect the views of their time.
Tea in Buddhist and Taoist practice
Wakefulness & bodily lightness
Tea broadly · Tang accounts collected by Feng Yan and Lu Yu
Feng Yan records permission to drink tea among Chan students at Lingyan monastery whose training involved staying awake.[1] Lu Yu preserves a passage attributed to Tao Hongjing associating bitter tea with bodily lightness and naming immortal figures as drinkers.[2]
References
- Fengshi Wenjian Ji Jiaozhu (封氏聞見記校注)ISBN 9787101047226
- The Classic of TeaISBN 9780316534505
