Skinny Chicken 2024 Kuashan Orb
Tea: Skinny Chicken 2024 Spring Kuashan Raw Puer Type: Raw Puer (生普洱) Harvest: April 2024 Press Date: April 2024 Region: Kuashan, Lincang, Yunnan 2024 Tasting Notes: Powderd doughnuts, Rosehips, Sugar Cane, Wild Orchid, Lemon Cake This item is a small 7 gram single-session pressing of the larger similarly named 200 gram cake: same material, same maker, same press date. We offer them individually or in sets of three. Kuashan is a relatively recently discovered region with a large amount of old growth trees. While the gushu are not plentiful enough to do entire gushu batches, the dashu and old arbor (trees several meters tall with trunks as large as streetlight poles) still achieve the desired goal of reaching deep through the sandy earth and into the deeper clay soil rich with minerals. These teas are distinctively sweeter than many other teas in the area, barring of course real from the legendary Bingdao regions. We first fell in love with tea from the Kuashan regio