Buddha Palm Set
Buddha Palm Set
Buddha Palm Set
Buddha Palm Set

Buddha Palm Set

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Our two Buddha Palm teas are beautiful oolong teas from Taoyuan County in Taiwan. They are created by Master Lu Li Zhen. Everything about these teas speaks to heritage, mastery and refinement. They come from a biodiverse and healthy, clean farm that Master Lu started himself. Roasting skills, like farming and processing techniques, were handed down generationally at tea shops. Over time, they became refined secrets that brought the unfinished teas to perfection. Nowadays, there are very few tea shops left that do their own roasting. Some may roast a tea or two for fun or as a specialty item, but there aren’t many that roast all their teas the way Master Lu Li Zhen does. Buddha Palm was carefully roasted over days using Master Lu’s own secret methods. Growing the tea himself also allows him to control the environment and processing. We have two versions of this tea. A traditional roast and a heavy roast. This set allows you to try the difference between two teas produced from the same harvest of the same farm, with a different roast. In that way, we can understand the role roasting plays when it comes to oolong tea.
75 grams x 2 packets.
Master Lu

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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