China Shou Pu-erh

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Shou Pu-erh is a modern invention, dating from the 1970's. This process of shou Pu-erh manufacture was created to meet the needs of tea drinkers who wished for Pu-erh that was ready to drink right away and that offered a bold, hearty taste. Prior to the advent of this new-style of Pu-erh, all Pu-erh was sheng Pu-erh, which required decades to age in order for it to reach its dark, strong, and full-bodied style. The new process - shou Pu-erh - came close to that taste in just a few months time and the tea was ready-to-drink when it arrived in the marketplace.

Shou Pu-erh met that demand and has become a very popular style of Pu-er ever since. This accelerated development of flavor is accomplished by exposing the mao cha to a fermentation method in the tea factory that is known as wo dui.

Shou Pu-erh will, under good storage conditions, keep well, mellow and deepen in flavor, although it will not age and undergo the natural microbial changes that sheng Pu-erh does. It is made primarily for fairly immediate consumption, and is sold as loose-leaf tea, and compressed shapes such as beeng cha, tuo-cha, rectangles and melons.

This is the type of Pu-erh drunk daily by people in China. Just as a noble, vintage bottle of Chateau-produced wine is not a daily drink in the West, aged sheng Pu-erh, which can be extremely costly, is drunk for special occasions and given as celebratory gifts.

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Steeping pu-erh tea New Tea, Rested Tea, and Aged Tea
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2006 Spring Pluck / Pressed in 2016
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
Organic
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2002 Spring Pluck
Shou ( fermented) Pu-erh
2010 Spring Pluck
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2014 Spring Pluck
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2007 Spring Pluck
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2017 Spring Pluck
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2010 Spring Pluck
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2008 Spring Pluck / Manufactured in 2009
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2012 Spring Pluck / Pressed in 2013
Shou (fermented) Pu-erh
2011 Spring Pluck