Tea Club - Season 2, Chapter 1: Shupu 熟普洱

Tea Club - Season 2, Chapter 1: Shupu 熟普洱

Name: Tea Club - Season 2, Chapter 1: Shupu 熟普洱
Brand: Eastern Leaves Selected
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We open the second season of our tea club with a chapter focusing on the world of Shu Pu'er tea. With this fermented tea, world-known for its unmistakable aroma, we take a journey that will take us to better know singular terroirs of Yunnan and to discover different taste variations of modern Shupu, that differs deeply from the older version and is becoming a completely distinct tea.

This chapter will lead us to understand the cultural value of four iconic areas: Jingmai mountain with its World Heritage ancient trees tea forest, Menghai with its unparallel expertise in crafting fermented Pu'er tea, Xigui with its local minorities living and creating tea like time never passed and Bulang mountain the inestimable land of strong tea taste.

In this first chapter we'll also open our senses to a wider experience of taste and fragrances, discovering how tea interacts with different elements, like herbs and incense that are part of the Chinese way of living the tea culture. Shupu tea, with its soft and mellow taste and mouthfeel will be our protagonist, the main character of a new tale in which precious ingredients combine to create a story of fragrances.

From the four mentioned terroirs we selected 8 teas, five of which we'll taste in their pure flavour profile:

Bulang Shupu 2024
Xigui Shupu, 2023
Jingmai Shupu 2022, Ancient Trees
Jingmai Shupu 2018, Forest Trees
Menghai aged Shupu 1990's

And other three paired with precious materials:

Shupu 2024 (Bulang) with Agarwood, the most precious natural essence
Shupu 2024 (Bulang), herbal blend with mulberry, goji berry and longan
Yiwu ancient trees shupu 2023 Qinggan, inside tangerine

Together with these 8 Pu'er Shu samples, you'll receive also three sticks of our natural incense - Cascade 瀑布 - that we suggest to light up during your brewing to experience a new feeling of Shupu, where its fragrance meet the essence of the incense's precious ingredients.

As you receive your tea samples, you will find a welcome letter with links to extensive content on the ancient and modern history of the area, geography and culture. You will then have access to a reserved Community chat area where we continue to upload new contents, and you can share your own tasting notes, observations, and travel stories.

You will also have access to the live online webinar (the recording will also be available in the community) and the informative material, in which we will explore each mountain, share with the participants the direct experiences of our trips on site and talk deeper about blending and incense pairing. We invite you to start tasting the samples as soon as you receive them, but we suggest to keep few grams to taste again and comment together during the online meeting.

Each chapter of our tea club will be available on our shop until stocks last.

How to join:

Purchase and Shipments
A new chapter of the tea club, with new teas and areas, will be published on a quarterly basis.

The samples will be shipped to your address with free worldwide shipping, and at the same time you will receive a shipping confirmation with tracking code.

Annual subscribers can enjoy a 10% discount for purchases on all our products sitewide and a preview on new teaware before they go online. The discounted items will be shipped together with the next chapter in a single shipment.

All Daye students (from all past and present editions!) and Tea Tour Travelers can enjoy a 10% discount on the price of both the single and the annual club, by using the code TEACLUB10 at checkout.

Online webinar

On Sunday April 27, 9 am CET (calculate your local time) an online webinar of the duration of one hour is scheduled through Zoom to taste some of the samples together and tell you more about each area and tea, sharing our personal experiences and tasting notes. Every member will find the code for the meeting, together with details on the specific date and time, via email.
After the meeting all participants will receive recording and other materials via email, or through our community.

Community

All the members of our Teaclub have exclusive access to a private community where we constantly upload new content from our travels, we taste teas together, and above all you can share your own tasting notes and organise a virtual or in-person tea session with fellow members! If you are a member follow this link to connect, we will be happy to start a conversation with you!

Shipping

The tea samples will be shipped to your address with free worldwide shipping, and at the same time you will receive a shipping confirmation with tracking code.

Selected farmers

The teas that do not come from our land are the result of a careful selection made among the best Chinese producers, who share the key points of Eastern Leaves: care for the environment, precise and accurate processing methods, and only best-quality teas.

The years of commitment to our land, taking care of the trees and trying to achieve to best quality through the leaf-processing, continuously learning season after season, allowed us to build valuable relationships with other tea-producers all over China that we are glad to support and share with you.

Our constantly updated offer includes all tea categories: white, green, yellow, red, dark (fermented heicha), and wulong.

Follow us on our social media channels, and travel with us to China to meet all our fellow producers!

Eastern Tea Club

Teas and sourcing

Our tea club unites our Tea Academy and our Tea Tours: it takes you to tea forests and gardens, exploring a single terroir through the eyes of local farmers and experts.

Every year our tea club is divided in four chapters, one for every season of the year. Each chapter is shipped quarterly.

It is designed with the imagination of a traveler on the mountain, and village after village you make your way tasting and evaluating teas following the famous routes.

Each tea comes from our studies and travels around China, from our base in Xishuangbanna: we establish a relationship with all the farmers we buy the tea from, and the conversation with them is an invaluable source of knowledge.

feedback

Hello,
I learned a lot during the session before this one, I did receive twice one tea an the other was missing.
I would love to receive a link of the last session to be able to watch the video of as I wasn’t able to participate.
Thank you,
Marianne

Dear Marianne, thank you for your feedback and for being part of our Tea Club.
We’re glad to hear you enjoyed learning with us, and we’ll be in touch directly to make sure everything is set right with your teas and the session recording.
The link to join our community and access the private content was included in your package, but we’ll be happy to guide you through it step by step in a separate email, so you can enjoy an even deeper experience on this journey of flavours.
Your input is truly valuable to us, as it helps us improve and share an ever better experience.

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Eastern Tea Club

Chinese Language for Tea

Eastern Tea Club

Tea Club - Season 2, Chapter 1: Shupu 熟普洱

How to join:

Online webinar

Community

Shipping

Selected farmers

Eastern Tea Club

Customer Reviews

Chinese Language for Tea

Eastern Tea Club

Chinese Language for Tea

Eastern Tea Club

Tea Club - Season 2, Chapter 1: Shupu 熟普洱

How to join:

Online webinar

Community

Shipping

Selected farmers

Eastern Tea Club

Customer Reviews

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