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

Consonance

Name: Consonance
Brand: Master Lü Lizhen
SKU: SK72725965
Price: 108.0 USD
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Consonance is a glorious shou cake. Master Lü Lizhen is a living puerh legend, partially responsible for revitalizing the industry in the early 1990s. He makes wonderful old-growth sheng puerh cakes every year, but rarely ever makes shou. He produced this shou cake in 2005 together with Chang Tai Factory. He spent a week blending teas from Yiwu and the greater Menghai region, including old-growth raw material. The cake says “shou rhyme” on it, celebrating the harmony of the blend. This is a wonderful aged shou cake that is great as bowl tea or gongfu. You can drink it or age it. It is also the perfect base for a Five Element blend. Master Lü donated a large portion of these cakes, which allows us to also offer it to you for cheap.

The Farmer

Master Lu 呂禮臻

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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