As Puer tea has become a more sought after tea, and people's understanding of it deepens, and with that the cost of tea has risen, there has been an interest in making small quantities that come from select single trees from within ancient tea tree gardens, either singly or as a few trees together. These 100g cakes are all from a handful of the biggest trees from which our Ban Po Lao Zhai tea comes from. The trees are numbered No 1, 4, 8, 9 and 10. Any one tree may yield between four to six or seven kilos of fresh leaves - enough to make 1 or 2 kilos of dried tea.

The teas are all broadly similar to the Ban Po tea from the same tea garden, but there are also differences which, for a tea drinker exploring the world of Puer, may be interesting. Generally with a finer, more singular 'kou gan' and finer but more particular character.

All Puer teas are hand picked, fired and rolled, or sometimes machine rolled. They are sun dried. Cakes are stone pressed.

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