Sanxia Aged Green Tea Cake(2016)

 Sanxia Aged Green Tea Cake We stumbled upon this tea on a recent sourcing trip to visit our friends in Sanxia. The story of these cakes is about the lasting power of good, clean, masterfully crafted tea. 2016 was a great year for tea making and our partners were able to produce a lot of green tea, but the market for organic green tea in Taiwan was even smaller then than it is now. There were few buyers for the tea that season and the tea was placed into storage. It stayed there for four years, loosing all marketability. Who wants to buy a 2-4 year old 'AGED' green tea? This spring the family decided to try a last ditch experiment to save the tea (and their investment) and pressed it into cakes. This fascinating tea is the result! The taste profile is something between a young sheng and fresh green tea, light, fruity and slightly floral with a subtle vegetal rootedness. There is no bitterness but a light astringency if pushed too hard. It is a very easy and fun tea to drink! The green