2010 Cha Yu Lin "Qian Liang Cha" Hunan Hei Cha Tea Weight:100 Grams (partial piece) This 1000 gram tea brick

This 1000 gram tea brick is composed entirely of spring harvest material from An Hua county area mountainous tea gardens

Pressed into a huge 36 kilogram column called "Qian Liang Cha" (aka 1000 catty tea) and then aged for 7 years before we purchased a whole column and then cut into slices and re-packaged into white wrapper 680-780 grams cake

This will steep 10+ steeps gong fu style

The processing is typical of green tea with sun withering

2010 Cha Yu Lin "Qian Liang Cha" Hunan Hei Cha Tea Weight:100 Grams (partial piece) This 1000 gram tea brickThis is a "Cha Yu Lin" production made from 2010 Spring tea leaves. Pressed into a huge 36 kilogram column called "Qian Liang Cha" (aka 1000 catty tea) and then aged for 8 years before we purchased a whole column and then cut into slices and split into half cakes (300 400 grams each)**. Qian Liang tea is compressed in a long column (typically 36kg) through a laborious process that involves steaming the leaves and funneling them into a three layered