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2017 Gao Jia Shan "Hui Gui" Fu Brick Tea from Hunan | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

2017 Gao Jia Shan "Hui Gui" Fu Brick Tea from Hunan

by Gao Jia Shan
$7.00 - $70.00
$7.00
$7.00 - $70.00
$7.00

Wild Grown tea leaves from Gao Jia Mountain.  This is the original An Hua tea varietal thats has grown in the mountains of Gao Jia Shan and Yun Tai Shan for centuries (maybe longer).  Gao Jia Shan is both a place and the name of the tea factory brand that produced this lovely tea.  Gao Jia Shan as a producer doesn't have as long of a history as Yi Yang and Bai Sha Xi tea factories but nonetheless produces very high quality Fu Brick tea processed in the traditional manner.

 

"Hui Gui" is a blend of leaves  that come from both light wet piling and medium wet piling (shorter length of the time and longer length of time wet piling) which were then blended and pressed into a brick.  After pressing the golden flowers flourish in the inner section of the brick where the conditions are just right to support them. After a few days the Golden Flowers have thrived and spread throughout the inner part of the bricks, and then the bricks are dried gradually using a temperature of 37C which preserves gradually halts the spread of the flowers without damaging them or the tea leaves. 

This year's brick commemorates the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the Mainland. It includes a commemorative coin (pictured).

The taste is ultra smooth with a malty sweetness.  It has a ultra thick tea soup and voluminous body that fills and stimulates the mouth and throat.  This is an ultra-premium Fu Cha made from wild harvested tea leaves, and processed laboriously to achieve "Fu Cha Perfection"!

 

Spring 2017 harvested tea leaves

1 kilogram per brick

 

ALLERGEN ALERT!!!   ** Because there is a possibility the golden flowers were inoculated using wheat flour we cannot guarantee this tea is safe for those with Celiac Disease or those that have severe gluten induced allergies **

Overall rating: 4.6666665 / 5 from 6 reviews.

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A taste of Autumn near the fireplace in a windy day

"My previous comment below was about the Gao Jia Shan "Cha Duo Tang", not this "Hui Gui" (my bad I dunno if we can move it to the good page) which is quite different. This tea has more a feeling of Autumn. Softer, a little cozy nutty side. Liquor turning from a beautiful yellow color to orange and then dark orange. No astringency, it has a sweetness but I wouldn't say buttery or fruity. Just something sweet going well with the nutty hint. A nice tea with its own character, less wild than the "cha duo tang". Effect is soothing too but nothing strong. Again, a sense of Autumn near the fireplace in a windy day. Cozy"

— Gilbert B. (5/5)

Meditative, personality, butteriness

"With personality. Smell very surprising Effects are really meditative, one of the most potent until now. With some fruitiness would make the score even higher. But the buttery taste is nice. No euphoria effect, just very grounded and clear in the mind. 🌟 9 great sensation, perfume of a dragon blowing your nose, with personality but some buttery smoothness too. Wild"

— Gilbert B. (5/5)

Sweet Juicy Potent Fu

"Another great Fu brick from Gao Jia Shan that is very sweet and very potent. The taste evolves and builds from rock sugar sweetness adding a smooth, sticky, oily, juicy texture and flavors of sour honey baked apples (candy apple maybe?) and 'cinnamon-like' spice taste. The aftertaste lingers longer and longer with each steep and I get a 'snappy' spice or light astringency feeling on the back sides of my tongue in later steeps. There's no smokey flavor whatsoever. I like the wet piling style, the tea soup gets to be a nice dark amber/red color and its evident to be a partially fermented tea but the earthiness is barely noticeable in the background and the sweet, fruity spice is up front. The texture of the tea is reminiscent of oolong. The pressing is light as usual for Fu brick, golden flowers are visible on the leaves and there's not very many stems at all in the 50 gram sample. Overall this tea tastes very good right out of the box despite being quite young and is what I would consider a classic Fu cha. Hui Gui might be the most potent Fu cha that I've tried so far. Cha qi is a fascinating thing. Fu brick usually has a strong mellowing effect on me. Not sure if it's the golden flowers or the potency of the tea leaves themselves. Like the flavor, the energy in this tea evolves during the session and lingers long afterwards much like some other psychoactive plants and fungi that I won't name. My experience with this tea is initially a slight warming sensation and slowly building buzzy body/mind mellowing/sedating feeling. Then later in the session a raw puerh-like blissful heady floating feeling emerges and these sensations last several hours after drinking. Very difficult to describe. Kind of like if the initial sensation (not temperature change) of climbing into an outdoor hot tub on a winter day is sustained... but I'm just sitting on the couch drinking tea. At $0.07 USD per gram, grabbing a kilo brick is an easy decision."

— Ryan P. (5/5)

Good stuff

"Lots of golden flowers. Surprisingly light piling means the leaves turn a dark olive green when infused. Sweet, fruity, a hint of spice This three year old hei cha is better than most pu erh 5 times older. Suspect a decade of aging would deepen the flavour and add complexity. But even this size brick won't last me that long. Perhaps I need another?"

— Sam S. (5/5)

Too strong a brew for 6g per 100ml

"I love a deep soupy tea, coming from a Pu-erh tea the day before, decided to try this tea at the same gram per milliliter of water. It felt like it affected my head and turned off my stomach for a few hours. My fault, empty stomach, and learned I should try a weaker version of first-time tea taste to see if I enjoy it soupy."

— Amanda S. (3/5)

Very pleasant

"I bought the whole brick and really enjoy this tea. This is definitely one of the best quality to price ratio teas I have. This brew is very thick- very pleasant flavors, like corn and it's ever so slightly floral. You don't have to taste around or through off flavors. It has been perfect for summer. I have been chipping away at it for the past few months and am finding that going with less leaf and longer steep times is working better for me. I am getting more flavor and even more of that lubricating effect with 3.8 grams to 100ml in a gaiwan over the more typical 6-8 grams per 100ml with short gongfu brews. I have had better luck in my gaiwan than my yixing pots."

— craig (5/5)

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