This tea came from Mangzhi mountain which is located in the west of Xiangming village Mengla county, and next to the Gedeng mountain. Mangzhi tea mountain once had a very glorious history, but suffered a setback in the local wars during the end of the Qing Dynasty. Early spring harvest from wild arbor tea trees. Traditional “sha-qing” (kill-green) processing in wok and sun-dried. Select maocha was pressed by stone to this small pretty cake. A pleasing depth of...
Our Yiwu gushu for this year comes from an old village in Mansa area - Zhang Jia Wan Lao Zhai (张家湾老寨). Zhang Jia Wan Lao Zhai is a village more than 30km away from Yiwu town, and 13km from Zhang Jia Wan Xin Zhai(张家湾新寨), bordering Laos in the south. There is big area of ancient tea trees garden. Many of them was chopped down or burned around 1981. The stance to "gu cha shu" was very different at that time. Maocha cost only a fraction of today's price and old high trees were a...
One of famous oolong teas from Anxi is Benshan. This is a light roasted with low oxidation (only 10-15%) high mountain (Gaoshan Benshan) oolong, carefully processed in early October. This tea comes from Xiping village(西坪). Emerald green rolled leaves have slightly orange fragrance. Full-bodied and complex with oily texture and floral sweet aftertaste. Benshan = Source Mountain Cultivar : Ben Shan(本山)
2011 Spring harvest. This material come from Baoshan area, 2600 meters high mountain closed with Mengmao village. There is home for wild arbor big tea trees in ecological environment. This tea is 100% organic - more than 90% vegetation cover, it's a beautiful place free from pollution. Residence is known for undiscovered "paradise", "tea tree ancestor". This kind of wild tea has special purple color leaves. This tea is called three color tea. Fresh leaves are purple, dried tea is...
Jinggu area, it's famous for one of varietal tea trees – Da Bai Hao – “Big White tomentum”. The tea leaves and buds with dense white tomentum are larger than other tea variety. Its delicate aroma is sweet and appealing, its taste is thick mellow and unforgettable. Sun dried 2006 spring material, compression is medium. Sweet, light floral with comfortable mouth feel. This tea is good to drink now. Yunnan Jinggu Tea Mill was founded in1958 and used to be one of the six CNNP...
The Yunnan Mao Feng is one of most popular green teas from Simao
The original taste of young Liu-an is more near green tea. Today as before, its popularity lead many companies to fake Sun Yi Shun liu an baskets. Many businessmen moisturize a young tea wet to be more "old". So maybe in the past you drank some bitter and "aged tea". We want to guarantee you high quality and original Sun Yi Shun traditional Liu-an tea. We suggest you can try some sample for taste.Liu-an is a post-fermented tea usually compressed into bamboo baskets and aged. The...
"Shui Xian" (also spelled Shui Hsien) - narcissus or water sprite This great and rare oolong - Zhangping Shui Xian oolong, named after the fragrance similar with daffodil, created in 1914. Zhangping is a famous place for Shui Xian oolong tea which is very different in manner and taste from Wuyi Shui Xian. Zhangping Shuixian cake is the only kind of pressed oolong tea. This charcoal roasted Shuixian cake is orthodox type product. Picking fresh leaves from late September...
This is very good quality Yunnan green tea, pick one bud with one leaf and one bud with two leaves in late March and careful rolling to "dragon pearls" ! Jasmine Dragon Pearl is flavored with original fresh Jasmine flowers( 茉莉花). The production time must wait until late May or early June, when Jasmine flowers bloom in Guangxi province. The making process is very lengthy and difficult but the original jasmine tea without synthetic essence is very pleasant ! Tea liquor is light yellow, smooth,...
"Te Ji" - premium grade of famous high mountain green tea from Huilong village, Dachang township, Lianghe county, Dehong prefecture. Huilong village (Hui Long Zhai) , land area 1.28 square kilometers, elevation 1650 meters, average annual temperature 14.9 ℃, annual precipitation 1491.6 mm. Strong spicy fragrance of dry leaves. Pick one bud and two leaf. This year the Hui Long tea not have too many buds like last year tea in the same quality, buds are smaller. This tea is very good for...
Chun Jian (春尖) - This green tea come from Simao area and were picked in middle March. Composed from 1/3 buds and 2/3 leaves. Brewed tea is sweet, fresh and clean.
This tea is from Jingmai Da Zhai, grown on the Da Ping Zhang area, and is considered some of the finest Jingmai tea available. Another famous tea village is Mangjing. The Mangjing tea taste more simple and bitter, therefore be sold at a lower price. Jingmai mountain is famous for middle/little leaf tea (中小叶种茶) which is popular for its sweet taste and floral aroma. Jingmai Da Zhai is one of the most famous village and has the biggest ancient tea tree garden in Jingmai mountain,...
„All types or pu-erh can be stored for maturity before consumption and that is why it has become common for the products to be labelled with year and region of production.“
01.01.2016 @ 18:14:35 - Eternal Spring:
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I decided to taste this tea 2 weeks after delivery. The cake is lightly pressed, so...
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Comparison of 2013 Bada Pu-erh.sk with <a...
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Lao Yu 2013 is now about 2,5 years old tea and out of this 1,5 year stored in Europe....
09.11.2015 @ 09:33:11 - Eternal Spring:
Comparison of all three Lao Yu is now done :)
15.10.2015 @ 11:06:37 - Eternal Spring:
2015 Chawangpu Collection – I can only tell, that all teas are very good :)
09.10.2015 @ 10:31:19 - Eternal Spring:
It was quite long and difficult tasting to make a decision… There is still quite...
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"FT(For Taiwan)" means this brick was a special order of "Fei Tai" Company. Fei Tai...
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