Description

Gao Jia Shan production made from 2009 Spring tea leaves. Pressed into a huge 36 kilogram column called Qian Liang Cha (aka 1000 catty tea) and then aged for 7 years before we purchased a whole column and then cut into slices and re-packaged into white wrapper 680-780 grams cake. (If you want to get a whole cake choose the 800 grams option and you ll get a whole cake + some pieces to get the overall weight up to 800 grams (example: you might get a 710 gram cake and a few chunks totaling 90 grams)).

We are also offering small cubes of this tea for sampling. They are roughly 10 grams each but can vary by weight and size, and as such are sold by weight.

Qian Liang tea is compressed in a long column (typically 36kg) through a laborious process that involves steaming the leaves and funneling them into a three layered cylinder of woven bamboo. Then a team of 5 to 8 people will simultaneously compress the tea using leverage and then tighten each section with thick bamboo stripling. Once firmly compressed the Qian Liang logs are dried in the sun and then finally cured for months in an indoor warehouse. In this form they can be aged for decades or even centuries without molding, only improving in taste, aroma and complexity with each passing year!