{"product_id":"sage-field","title":"Sage Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is a patient, profound tea, and an unusually honest one. What we know is simple: it's sheng puerh, likely pressed and then broken to loose leaf sometime in the early 1990s, and it has spent decades in long-term natural storage in Taiwan. No factory name, no wrapper, no provenance beyond its age and the care of its storage. What it offers instead is an elegant, extraordinary tea that speaks for itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe brew begins herbaceous with green beans, sage, and thyme, layered with fennel and aged tangerine peel. As the deeper notes emerge, we find mineral sweet spice and cedar,, giving the tea real complexity without ever feeling heavy. The body coats the mouth, with pleasant astringency that never turns sharp. There's a distinct autumnal quality running through it, spacious and clarifying, like the first cold snap of the season. It's an easy tea to keep drinking, unhurried and steady, rewarding patience and ease. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSage is a double entendre in the name. In the Buddhist tradition, the Dharmakaya is described as a field, the ground of awareness said to be present everywhere, always, whether or not we notice it. This tea has that same quality. Its calm, steady energy doesn't announce itself or ask for attention. It's simply there, the way the field of practice is always there, whether we turn toward it or not. Drinking it feels less like being taken somewhere new and more like settling back into something that was present all along. There’s always one tea in the Vault that’s very special but hard to describe. Sage Field is this seasons: a tea for slowing down, for autumnal days, for the kind of session that asks nothing more of you than to sit with it a while.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoose Leaf Sheng Puerh - Taiwan Storage - Early 1990's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Living Tea","offers":[{"title":"100g","offer_id":50440034615363,"sku":"tea.sagefield100g","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300g","offer_id":50440034648131,"sku":"tea.sagefield300g","price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/1085\/files\/f8164773-69d4-45fb-aab8-8020c1d8c359.jpg?v=1790066025","url":"https:\/\/www.livingtea.net\/products\/sage-field","provider":"Living Tea","version":"1.0","type":"link"}