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: 135.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$135.00

Gongfu

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Consonance is a shou cake from Master Lu Li Zhen (呂禮臻), who helped revive the puerh industry in the early 1990s. He makes old-growth sheng cakes every year but rarely makes shou. In 2005 he made this one with Chang Tai Factory, spending a week blending teas from Yiwu and the greater Menghai region, including old-growth material. The wrapper reads 熟韻, “shou rhyme,” for the harmony of the blend.

More than twenty years on, it is a lovely aged shou for bowl tea or gongfu, ready to drink now or to keep aging. It also makes a fine base for a Five Element blend.

These are the last of the cakes Master Lu shared with us.

Each cake is approximately 400 grams.

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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