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

Empty Basin

Name: Empty Basin
Brand: Master Lü Lizhen
SKU: P-EB-T-1434-S
Price: 12.0 USD
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Empty Basin is a wonderful shou brick created by Master Lü Lizhen. Consonance was one of our favorite shou puerh teas ever and the only one that Master Lü had ever created. When we told him how much we loved it, he offered to create a shou brick for us this year using a blend of various leaf grades from Yiwu Mountain, a region he knows intimately after decades of working with farmers there. This brick is tightly compressed, so you will need a puerh knife to open it up. A little goes a long way. The tea is thick, rich and creamy with a deep and long-lasting flavor. The piling flavors are mild and will smooth out over time if you age some of these bricks. The Qi is soft and grounding. It is great for boiling, blending with other teas and steeping as well.

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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