This is my first tea cake and I very seldom drink white. This tea is surprisingly fruity and flavorful. I love it so much I went back to place another order.
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Jujube Shou Mei | White Tea Cake
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200-gram cake
Tastes like dried, aged jujube fruit (Chinese dates). The dark leaves make a heavy body for white tea, but it still has that classic texture. The aroma is ripe and musty with a slight cherry and leaf-like presence in the cup. Buy one to age and one to drink now.
Produced July 5, 2021 by Mr. Zhou Sui Guo in Fuding County, Fujian Province. It’s a one bud, three leaf pick of the Fuding Big Hair cultivar growing at approximately 1,600 feet.
Wrapper design by YoYo
Ingredients: white tea
Steeping Instructions
3 grams | 10-12 oz mug | 212°F | Steep 2 min.
Traditional Steeping
- Use 6 grams of tea with boiling water in a 150ml gaiwan or teapot:
- 10 second rinse
- 1st steep – 25 sec.
- 2nd steep – 20 sec.
- 3rd steep – 30 sec.
- 4th steep – 45 sec.
- 5th steep – 75 sec.
- 6th steep – 2 min.
- (or steep however you want – feel free to keep steeping as long as it’s still giving)
Ingredients
white tea
Steeping Instructions
Western Steeping Method
Steep 3 grams of tea in 10–12 oz of 212°F (100°C) water for 2 minutes.
Traditional Steeping Method
Steep 6 grams of tea in a 150 ml gaiwan or teapot with 212°F (100°C) water for the following times.
Rinse: 10 seconds – discard (optional)
1st steep: 25 seconds
2nd steep: 20 seconds
3rd steep: 30 seconds
4th steep: 45 seconds
5th steep: 75 seconds
6th steep: 2 minutes
These recommendations are just a starting point—experiment and discover what you enjoy most.
Approximate Cups of Tea per Package
This estimate is based on the recommended steeping instructions for this tea. Actual yield will vary depending on your steeping method and personal preference.
Full Tea Cake (200g)
Makes about
67
cups of tea
Tea Type
White tea
Origin
China
Tea Style
Shou Mei
Sub-origin
Fujian
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 12 reviews.
So good. My first shou mei cake, and it was the best tea purchase ever. So floral and delicious, reminiscent of a bai mu dan, but deeper. Love this stuff.
I change tea preferences by season, going lighter as the weather gets hotter. I bought this last summer, was into other teas and set it aside. This summer, I’m loving it! It’s my daily go-to. I’m going to buy a couple cakes to keep for the next summers.
First tea cake I have purchased but the taste is amazing. The jujube adds just enough sweatness without needed to add anything else. Well worth the price. The artwork isalso beautiful. I may order another soon just to let it age more for future use.
Excellent quality for the price!! Addictively sweet and lingering. The jujube notes come on strong in early steeps. Later steeps are on the woody side initially but fade into lingering jujube and caramel. The package art is also gorgeous and perfectly captures the feeling of walking through an orchard of jujube trees in the fall!!
Tried several white teas. Decided Im not a white tea drinker. Until now. Wow this tea is amazing. Sweet and full of flavor.
My first experience with white tea and it's fantastic! Sweet and smooth, no bitterness here no matter how hard I push the leaves. I'd go straight for boiling water as I found no downsides to brewing this tea as hot as possible. I lost track, but probably steeped this guy ten times before it quit. Easy 5/5.
Fruit forward leafy sweetness when shy of boiling. I have found boiling to be slightly too hot for this tea. I back off my temps to between 90 and 95C. Perhaps with age this will stand up better to the heat. Boiling brings out vegetal notes which may not be to everyone's tastes, but back off even just a little bit and those raw vegetal notes give way to a raisin sweetness. This stands to age very nicely.
Delicate flavor with fruit forward aftertaste. Throat feels a bit dry after drinking many steeps. I look forward to seeing how/if this tea develops as it ages further.
My first tea cake (or brick) of any kind so it's been a little bit of a learning curve to figure out how much to use but the end result is worth it, a wonderful smooth fruity flavor. You might look at the price and think it is expensive but it is actually quite a lot of tea by weight and it can be steeped multiple times so that a single heaping of tea can last you all day. A tasteful bargain!
Steeped with a 150ml gaiwan following the traditional steps. I'm always amazed at the range of white tea and this cake is no exception. I'm mostly impressed with the heavy body (for a white tea) which lends itself to many steeps and allows for the flavors to continue through several steeps. The aroma can be described as an ocean and/or musty leaves (depends on your nose) with some light hints of spice. Mouthfeel is smooth, very smooth, and the body is medium-light (though for a white tea, it's heavy). Flavors I experienced were dried jujube with hints of pepper and a lightly sweet profile. The aftertaste was a good sweet-and-savory play on my tongue and back of the throat, inviting me to the next sip. A wonderful tea to experience with a gaiwan and, as you keep steeping, these flavors play in different proportions keeping you guessing at the next pour! PS> I used the friendship gaiwan from TeaSource and it is a great set for this tea.
a very nice cake, and a great price from a reputable seller. Dried fruits like cranberry and golden raisin, leafy sweet must. boiled, it gets a little dryer than some older cakes I have, but I love the bitter lemon twist, and I'm sure it will settle nicely in a couple of years.