{"id":172,"date":"2013-04-14T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-05-29T01:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:44:47","slug":"posts-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/posts-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Cha-tou, the Manufacturers’ favorite pu-erh ripe tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cha-tou<\/a><\/p>\n

The cha-tou is one kind of pu-erh ripe tea<\/a> produced during the tea making process. The manufacturer often emphasizes that it is the most delicious and precious pu-erh ripe tea. The size and shape of cha-tou is irregular, and it is naturally formed. <\/p>\n

Cha-tou is naturally formed during fermentation<\/h2>\n

The fermentation of pu-erh ripe tea consists of two steps: the first step involves bacterial fermentation, and the second step involves yeast and mold fermentation. After the first step of bacterial fermentation, tea leaves are piled into 10-20cm of thickness for natural drying. Simultaneously, tea leaves undergo post fermentation by yeast and mold. During this process, tea leaves sometimes stuck each other and form a lump. This is the tea called cha-tou. Once cha-tou is formed, the moisture is trapped inside the lump. It will then undergo further maturation and form the flavor like Chinese dates.
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There are a number of cha-tou appears on the surface during yeast and mold fermentation<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Cha-tou<\/a>

Cha-tou and normal loose leaf<\/p><\/div>\n

Cha-tou is popular and limited<\/h2>\n

After meeting many manufacturers of ripe pu-erh tea, I realized that they appreciate the cha-tou the most. It gives very unique flavour, like dried fruit. Usually, the selling price of cha-tou is the highest among the various grades of ripe pu-erh tea yet the demand is more than the supply as the quantity of cha-tou from each batch of fermentation is very limited. Usually the stock is not available, unless the advance booking is made one year ahead.
\nAfter all, I am very lucky to find the cha-tou made of the tea leaf that is grown with natural farming method. It gives very strong after taste, full body, and its flavour reminds me of dried dates. I am planning to compress cha-tou into 250g brick. It will be available in next month.<\/p>\n

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The lump on the finger is the cha-tou and the rest is the normal leaf<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cha-tou is one kind of pu-erh ripe tea produced during the tea making process. The manufacturer often emph \u2026","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,79,105,106,63,76,115,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hojotea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}