From a tea garden on the west side of Yi Bang, between Yi Bang and Ma Li Shu.

The tea garden is around 1350 meters altitude. Due to a family hiatus the tea gardens were left largely untended for a few years, until 2018.

The tea has a pretty hefty flavour: a solid bitter/sweet 'ru kou', nice fruit-floral fragrance and good aftertaste/'hou yun'. A rather dense 'bei xiang'. It's a well balanced tea and steepings last well.

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.

All Puer teas are hand picked, fired and rolled unless it says otherwise, and sun dried. Cakes are pressed by hand using a stone or in a traditional hand press.

Please be aware that raw Puer tea is in a continual process of change - over time, with the seasons, and the weather, as it oxidised and ferments - so descriptions of teas (and the accompanying photos) are a snapshot of a certain moment in time. I try to make sure descriptions are simple yet accurate and give a feel for how the tea was experienced at the time of tasting.