shui jin gui 2012

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Set water temperature to 195 °F / 90 °C
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“I will never really understand the Chinese tea-naming mind. I mean, I think this tea is supposed somehow to look like a water tortoise, but I keep thinking it tastes like a water tortoise. Shui Jin...” Read full tasting note

Description

As with the other Wu Yi cultivars, cuttings from the original Shui Jin Gui plants (of which 3 are still alive but not harvested) were taken and grafted onto existing rootstock, creating exact copies/clones of the original plants that could be grown and harvested in more accessible parts of the the Wuyishan area.

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