China - Tea from 2005 till 2010

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.

Fu Lu Shou Xi (福禄寿喜) - Fortune, Wealth, Longevity and Happiness

Almost on the verge of disappearing, Pu-erh tea paste used to be the special tribute to the Qing Dynasty imperial court. According to the Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Pu-erh tea paste is often pitch black; It is best known as antidote to drunkenness and the green paste is especially good for improving digestion and reducing phlegm.① The ripe puerh paste is made of 2009 fermented Yunnan large leaves material. Separate the fibers from the tea infusion by special...

The Menglong TF made this 250g tea brick from ancient wild tea tree material in 2006. Purple large leaves varietal tea is from Mengmao village, Baoshan region. This place is famous for wild arbor tea (Qiao Mu). It is the optimum ecological environment for the growth of grandifoliate planted tea trees. Four years proper store in Kunming makes the tea soup golden yellow, fruity aroma and a smooth flavour. The taste resembles some sorts of laocha(old oolong tea)! The packing paper is not...

Classic "Jia Ji" recipe! This tuocha is pressed in 2005, composed of 1-2 years aged raw material. Xiaguan TF has been producing Jiaji Tuocha since 1951. Earlier used "CNNP" brand, was replaced by "pine crane" trademark in 1991. Paper box Tuocha is superior to paper bag Tuocha in quality. Brewed tea have deep orange color, taste is mellow, stimulating and strong in mouth with very quickly huigan, honeyed mouthfeel. Xiaguan Jiaji is very good puerh tea...

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)

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)

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 200 gram tuo [nest shaped] tea from Xiaguan Tea Factory was stored in Guangzhou dry storage. It is an economical tea that is good for everyday drinking. Still slightly edgy on the first steep, with only faint remnants of smoke and tough woodsy flavors, classic trademarks of Xiaguan factory tuos.

Spring 2005 material from Yibang was used for this semi-aged raw puerh tea brick. Rare hand pressed by wood form and stone. Is hard to see this technique nowadays. This tea was stored in hot and middle humid warehouse in XIshuanbanna, the color of liquore change faster than the taste. Is very clean and great example of Yunnan tropical storage. Tea come from arbor tea garden, there is great aroma and power in the tea, can brewed for many times.

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...

This is a classic Menghai spring blended cake from Nannuoshan Tea Factory which was renamed as Menghai Banzhang Tea Factory from 2005. 2005 spring material from Menghai area, dry storage. This tea is strong, full and clean, floral aromas with a soft fruity taste. Perfect puerh cake for long term storage. This cake is different with another similar wrapper cake we also offer (<a href="/teas/pu-erh/2005-nan-nuo-shan-raw-chi-tse-bing-cha-7549-375g-idt-346/">click here</a>) . The...

Xizi tuo is one of famous Xiaguan Fei Tai products. Used high quality blend of 1-3 years aged materials and pressed on spring 2008. This make the tea taste much more mature than other 2008 teas. There are few fat and silver buds on the top of tuo, it's a typical sign of Fei Tai products. "FT(For Taiwan)" means this brick was a special order of "Fei Tai" Company. Fei Tai Company is the biggest Xiaguan TF and Menghai TF pu-erh tea distributor in Taiwan. It is claimed that the...

This is a classic and old style cake from Nannuoshan Tea Factory which was renamed as Menghai Banzhang Tea Factory from 2005. This cake made of 2005 pure sun-dried large leaf material, compression is medium. After stored for 6 years in Kunming, this tea is ready for drink now but still very powerful with good choice for aging ! Nice golden liquor with typical floral aromas of Nannuoshan tea, full in the mouth, fruity with quickly huigan! Later infusions are sweet and smooth.

Jia Ji (甲级) - "A-Grade" Tea was stored in mountain district of Taiwan. I was drinking other day a sample from a FengHuang JiaJi 1998 Sheng Tuo. It is a pretty good tea indeed, the more I brew it the more I liked. Thinking that price for this tea in Taobao is almost 200 euro/100 grams stopped me before any plan to acquire it for my shop. I have never believed in a magical transformation of such tuo cha's. Until lately I tried a few good ones, such transformation...