Culinary Specialties CooksShopHere- Green Tea: Cui Lu

Black

Oolong

Cui Lu Spring Green
2011 Pre-Qing Ming

Yunnan Province, China
Basket-fired
Large open twist leaf style – many tips with a distinctive twist
Flavor is soft and smooth
Hints of apricot and peach in the aroma
Clear emerald liquor

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Cui Lu is one of the exceptional Yunnan greens. This is a beautiful tea in all three phases: its dry leaf form, while it is steeping, and then as wet leaf. The budsets start out an elegant emerald green color with silver edging and, when wet turn light avocado in color.

Cui Lu has a focused, clean flavor, similar in a way to our old friend Nine Dragons (another western China green) but Cui Lu has no hint of smoke. It has a classic chestnut background flavor but what predominates is that hint of stone fruit flavor and aroma of apricots and peaches. The liquor is bright and clear, and is ever-so-slightly reminiscent of the liquor of an early season Japanese green tea.

Harvested and manufactured by hand in early spring of 2011, with leaf from tea bushes in the prime tea-growing highlands of Simao.

Use 1 heaping Tablespoon per 6 oz of water
Steep 2-3 infusions at 2 minutes each.
Water temperature should be 170˚ - 180˚ F