From the same tea garden as the last two years on Nan Nuo Shan at around 1400m altitude. The garden was planted in the late 1970's.

The trees don't qualify as 'da shu' or old tea trees,but the tea has many qualities of old tree tea: some decent body, aftertaste and a sweet-floral 'hou yun'. It has a honey-floral-citrus fragrance in the wet leaves and cup, and some distinct bitterness that transforms after 3-4 seconds. The 'ru kou' is a little bullish and smooths out in later steeps as one would expect from a Nan Nuo Shan tea. The 'hui gan' is marked.

This year we selected the biggest of the trees in the tea garden which produced around 12kg of mao cha.

The tea was processed by the same tea farmer who made our Nan Nuo Shan ancient tree tea. Pressed in 200g cakes.

Unless stated otherwise, all my Puer teas are hand picked, fired and rolled. They are then sun dried. Cakes are stone pressed.

Please be aware that because raw Puer tea is a 'post-fermented' tea it is continually in a process of change: as it ages, but also from season to season and even day to day, so the description here is a snapshot of the teas quality and character, which should not differ significantly, but which none-the-less can change.