Brewed shou puerh tea liquor in a white porcelain cup on a clay coaster, seen from above

Ando

Name: Ando
Brand: Master Lü Lizhen
SKU: P-SSB-T-1431-S
Price: 30.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$30.00

Boiled Tea

Gongfu

Sidehandle

Ando means “Peaceful Way.” It is the finer sibling of our Empty Basin brick, both created for us by Master Lü Lizhen from Yiwu Mountain tea. While Empty Basin blends various leaf grades, Ando is pressed from a higher grade, more tippy tea into these smaller and finer bricks. If you liked Empty Basin, you will love Ando. The brick is tightly compressed, so you will need a puerh knife to open it up. A little goes a long way. The extra tips lend Ando a smoother, sweeter and creamier cup than its sibling, with a deep and long-lasting flavor. The mild piling notes will settle further if you age some of these bricks. The Qi is soft and grounding. Ando rewards careful gongfu steeping and is equally lovely boiled.

Each brick is 100g.

Master Lu

Lu Li Zhen (呂禮臻) was born in 1952 in Xin Bei, in the very north of Taiwan. His uncle owned a tea shop in Ban Chiao, and for more than thirty years Master Lu has roasted and sold tea in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Europe, especially Germany, where he often travels to lecture. He roasts every oolong he sells, keeping alive the old tradition in which farmers made maocha, or unfinished tea, and tea shops finished it by roasting. Very few shops still work this way, and Master Lu does it with decades of skill and several competition wins. He also tends his own clean, biodiverse farm in Taoyuan, and in the puerh world he helped revive the industry in the early 1990s.

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