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 tea come from autumn 2014 harvest from Mengsong (Menghai), blend of tea from different villages, trees 60-80 years old, made by Dai minority. Put the tea into bamboo tube, then bake bamboo on the fire until lightly toasted. Press the tealeaves with a wooden stick when they are softened, and then fill up the tube again with more tealeaves. Repeat this procedure until tealeaves in the tube are compacted. Sweet, full tea soup with strong floral aroma. Drink now...
This tea come from Mengsong mountain, wild arbor tea garden. Trees are 80-120 years old, growing wild in forest.¨ We visited this garden in Januar 2015 and very like the place. We bought first harvest which was just 30kg only. Hand processing in every step and sun-dried, traditional stone pressed in Menghai town. Typical Mengsong taste, aromatic tea soup, sweet, full and strong, bittersweet long aftertaste. Manufacturer : Cha Wang Shop...
Cheng Shuang 成双 means in pairs This cake is blend of two villages and mountain in Menghai area. Material for this cake come from old trees betwen 60-120 years, first harvest in late March. Pure hand made, pressed by stone in Menghai. Strong, very nice aroma, full in mouth, with some bitterness, fast aftertaste. This is powerfull blend for long term aging! Manufacturer : Cha Wang Shop Production date: Harvest early spring before 4.5.2015 .,...
Material for this cake came from Man Nan Lao Zhai in Hekai mountain. Man Nan Lao Zhai is home of Lahu minority. There are very few small trees in the tea gardens, most of the tea trees are really old, which have lived for several hundred years. We picked out the first picking tea in late March before the rains came. Silver and fat buds, dark leaves, strong aroma. The taste is rich, oily and full in mouth, bitter as Hekai is, aftertaste is fast and sweet. This tea come from the...
Since 2012, Bada mountain is one of our personal favorite place and we spend many days and travel there, many times. Visit different villages and tea gardens. Bada 2015 come from an Bulang village old tea garden, most of trees was cut in past. It´s old Bada mountain large leaves kind of tea trees, in taste very close to Zhanglang village teas. The tea trees grows in the forest in more than 1600 metres high mountain. It's not easy to pick. Our tea is...
Nicely processed and completely manually produced tea from Bada mountains. The tea is coming from Zhang Lang village from two Bulang’s families at the end of March 2013.
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...
Lao Yu (老妪) : old woman Material for this cake came from a small Bulang minority 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...
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...
An old arbor Menghai blend. Thick body, lingering kuwei [pleasant bitterness], and plenty of oomph. This tea is a continuation of last year’s New Amerykah. The blend is slightly different, focusing more on sweetness and body than on bitterness.
This spring we bought entire collection of puerh teas from Cha Wang Shop produced in 2015 and we are slowly drinking through it. The collection consists of 6 puerh cakes in the size Xiao - 200g:
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 tea is from Jingmai Da Zhai, grown in Da Ping Zhang area, and it is considered to be of the finest Jingmai tea available on market. We took few kilos of this Huang Pian to Kunming, where some of it we offer as loose leaves and rest will be pressed into the cakes. This raw puerh is the highest selection of older tea leaves ( Huang Pian - yellow leaves, or Da Ye Zi ). The older leaves, coming from the hundred year's trees, become bright yellow, red or orange tinted. The tea workers sort...
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.
„Or perhaps you experiment with different parameters, water, ware, etc. and notice that it performs differently under different circumstances. This type of knowledge is not possible if you only have 25g of a tea. It can really only come with drinking 200, 300, or even 1000g of the same tea.“
01.01.2016 @ 18:14:35 - Eternal Spring:
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07.12.2015 @ 09:07:02 - sypalino:
I decided to taste this tea 2 weeks after delivery. The cake is lightly pressed, so...
09.11.2015 @ 21:58:19 - Eternal Spring:
Comparison of 2013 Bada Pu-erh.sk with <a...
09.11.2015 @ 09:34:07 - Eternal Spring:
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...
24.01.2015 @ 16:55:57 - Eternal Spring:
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30.12.2014 @ 17:19:22 - Eternal Spring:
"FT(For Taiwan)" means this brick was a special order of "Fei Tai" Company. Fei Tai...
13.08.2014 @ 18:24:28 - Eternal Spring:
We compared two teas from Youle. 2005 Jinuo Shan You Le "Red Sun Drum" and 2009...
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