Another You Le/Jinuo Shan tea. This one from a small tea garden near Ba Ya village. I had first visited the tea gardens several years before but it wasn't until 2023 that I made some tea from the tea garden.

These cakes were pressed at the end of 2025.

The wet leaves have a light fruit-floral fragrance. The 'bei xiang' is also light, fruity-floral with perhaps a herbal note. Rue 'ru kou' is smooth but with structure. The 'kou gan' is also smooth and clean with a distinct 'shui lu'. The tea has some bitterness, but it's not at all dominant, with a little astringency. The tea also produces some pleasing 'sheng jin' and has some decent thickness along with some nice floral 'hou yun'. The tea is 'nai pao' - it can be steeped many times. This is a nice, well balanced tea that has some 'jin'.

Tasting Date: 2026/8/8

The tea garden is at an altitude of around 1400 metres, surrounded by forest on a steep slope. The tea trees are a 'zhong ye zhong' - a middle leaf variety

Unless stated otherwise, all 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 qualities and character on this particular occasion, which should not differ significantly, but which will change none-the-less over time.