Tuocha - China - Tea from 2005 till 2010

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 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.

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...

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...

This tuo is made of wild arbor sun-dried material from Youle mountain, also called Jinuoshan, Youle is one of the Six Famous Tea Mountains in Xishuanbanna. Spring Youle mountain material pressed to tuo shape. Stored in Banna for 4 years (- very good storage without bad signs of mold or other negative strangeness make the tea taste terrible!) and mature faster than in dry Kunming storage. Nice golden clean tea soup with hint of honey, smooth and mellow in mouth, ripe fruit and...

2008yr 968 *Yunnan Haiwan Pu-erh Tea Old Comrade LaoTongZhi * Pu erh Tuocha Ripe /Shu 100 grams

This tuo is composed from spring material from Menghai area (most from Bulang mountain) and from different years. The quality and selection of raw material are much more better than 2008 Menghai Tuocha we also offer. Traditional sun-dried material was blended well and pressed careful. Tightly compression is good for long term storage. This tea was stored few years in Menghai and then moved to Kunming. Humid, hot and clean Menghai storage is big benefit for maturation. Mellow but still...