Nine years aged and pressed into small cookies. Rich and smooth, gently sweet, neither astringent nor bitter, with a sweetness that keeps returning. in a cup rich and smooth, gently sweet, never astringent.
100°C W A T E R
5g L E A F
120ml V E S S E L
Warm the vessel thoroughly, then rinse — rinse and discard the first — and discard it.
Steep to this schedule — 30 s · 10 s · 15 s · 20 s, lengthening from the fifth.
One cookie is a full session. Rinse it, then let it sit for thirty seconds before the first real pour so the pressed leaf can loosen.
Simmer the spent cookie for 3 minutes. Aged shoumei gives more to a pot than to a gaiwan. Yields 7–8 infusions.
