Cake - Yunnan

This Pu-erh is called "Jing Mai Chun Liao Cha" (景迈纯料茶) - Jing Mai Mountain Pure Material Tea. The aroma of dry tea leaves is sincere and joyful. Pronounced prunes, pronounced nuts, pronounced sweetness, a lot of honey. The infusion releases forest, meadow, floral aromas, a little “greenery” and wood. Each of these flavors is clear and individual. All together, they form a balanced symphony.

Lao Yu (老妪) : old woman Material for this cake came from a small Bulang village in Bada mountain. This village have very small quantity of tea trees that grow in the forest. Trees are relative old, but farmers cut the branches when trees get too tall. Tea trees are kept at easy-picking height because the tea is picked and made by old women in this village. They follow ancient ways to produce tea. Many of them make tea only for themself. We selected and bought good...

Last winter was unusually cold. Many people thought they would have a good harvest the next spring. We bought little tea at first from Manguishan. Many people fought to take the first pick spring tea, that drive up the price. We wanted to wait and ask for a better price.Then there were no more tea! The tea buds withered up because there was no rain. There has been no rain throughout the spring, until the end of April. Drought destroyed one-third of the spring tea. We are lucky...

This cake is made by friend´s shop in small quantity just 150kg in total. First spring harvest from Xiao Hu Sai village, trees from single garden and age 80-120 year. Pure hand made , sun dried and stone pressed. Strong aroma, powerfull but balanced, thick, sweet, fast huigan, Aftertaste is long,For people who enjoy power of your raw puerh tea, this can be an great choice. In other way we can recommend it for storage for drinking after 10-15 years. This tea is wrappered in white...

2014 late spring harvest, Mengsong area, moderate fermentation. Classic Menghai area ripe puerh tea made from 60-80 years old tea trees. Deep red tea soup, full and smooth with dark chocolate tones, sweet aftertaste. And It can be taken for many times. A great ripe puerh tea to drink now, but also valuable for long-term storage. Manufacturer : Mingshan tea house Production date : Late spring 2014 harvest Harvest area : Mengsong area Weight : 357g

This tea was found in friend´s warehouse in Menghai where was stored since 2005. Clean but tropical storage change the taste very nice. Large strong leaves with fat buds. Smooth, sweet aged woody and ripe fruit taste, slightly very comfortable bitterness, fast huigan. Production date : harvest Spring 2005, pressed 2015/4 Harvest Area : Bulang mountain, Menghai Weight : 200g per cake, 5 cakes in bamboo tong (1kg)

I tasted several 7542 original Dayi cakes from recent years going back to 1997. Only the oldest made quiet an impression on me. Although this one cost several hundreds Euro already. I also run into a few 'private order 7542 cakes too. The 2011 one, a dry stored in Jiangsu, with very strong typical characteristics and a good price had to end up in pu-erh.sk aged raw pu-erh teas offer. Taste: Clean without any disturbing side effect, a strong bitterish, fruity 'menghai'...

This nice small cake is made from early spring Wuliangshan and Lincang material. Many buds and apparent leaf tips.Iron cake is tightly compressed, so its qualitative transformation is slow. Definitely tea for longer-term store.The soup is clear and bright. It has faint scent, pleasant to the palate. The taste is strong and powerfull, floral and sweet huigan. (CERTIFIED ORGANIC OFDC SEPA)

Archívny sheng pu-erh z Menghai Tea Factory, klasická receptúra 7542 z roku 1975, produkcia z roku 2001. Koláč obsahuje čajové lístky triedy 4 - 8 zbierané na jar 1999 a jar 2000. Veľmi energetický čaj s delikátnou arómou a výraznou, bohatou, klasickou chuťou, typickou pre uvedenú receptúru. Čaj zrel do roku 2013 na Taiwane a v Hongkongu, po 13 rokoch má vynikajúcu chuť a zároveň potenciál na ďalšiu archiváciu a zretie. Poznámka: Receptúra 7542 je jedna z najslávnejších a...

Spring and late spring harvest 2009, blend of Lancang and Menghai area. Yellow clean tea liquor with strong flower aroma. Stimulated and full mouthfeel with fast huigan. Easy for drinking now. Liming tea primary processing workshop was founded in 1983 and was the seventh sub-field of Liming state-owned farm, changed to Liming Xinghuo tea factory which was run by private contractors in 2006. The factory is located in Mengman village.

This is a good example of CNNP "7542" production. This custom-made "7542" cake was made by an affiliated factory of Menghai TF. This tea cake is composed of wild arbor and garden tea. First three years stored in China and then bought and stored in Malaysia since 2004. Clean and very good storage! Full body, balanced, sweet, with fast huigan. Give many enjoyable infusions !

Produced in the mid-late 1980's, these cakes were stored for the first 10-15 years of their life in Hong Kong in traditional, fairly humid storage. They were then bought by a tea merchant in Malaysia and have been stored there since. Their time in Hong Kong has allowed the tightly pressed cakes to age well, with their subsequent storage and ageing in Malaysia allowing the tea to become more refined and much of the traditional storage flavour to dissipate. The end result is a...

Yiwu Hai Wan wild tea - special grade (pu-erh.sk favorite) Year: 1999 Weight: 357g Stored Location: Low mountain near the city in Taipei Material: The maocha were selected from Yiwu. Tea trees are more than hundred years old and wild. Features: This tea storing surrounding has had sufficient moisture so the tea had a good transformation. Even this sheng pu-erh was stored only 15 years its taste is already very smooth. In 1999, the wild tea trees...

2015 Pin Raw Puer Tea 200g from White2tea. The Pin is a blend of three years of high quality material (2013, 2014, and 2015) with Lincang character. The tea has a sweet flavor and a heavy fragrance. The texture of the soup is much smoother than our other 2015 productions due to the blended material from previous years, which was stored in Menghai prior to pressing. An excellent tea to drink now or save to drink several years down the line.

This cake is composed of Lancang and Menghai area selected materials.After 5 years aging in dry storage, this cake now taste still a little bitter. About half the time, the cake was stored in Kunming, later moved to Guangzhou for the rest of the time. It´s a very pleasant surprise that the development and aging of flavor! Changtai pressed the same blend twice in 2006. The wrapper have the same design "Dragon and Horse" but different colour. The first batch of product have...