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Lovely Bu Lang Mountain area ripe pu-erh tea!  Tippy, thick, and aromatic! Xinghai tea factory is the 2nd producer of ripe tea in Menghai town (aft...

In a vertical tasting, you’re actually tasting one production over the course of years, with multiple vintages. This sampler will include "Hui Run"...

A classic recipe from Menghai, the first production of 2006 (601). This is an average blend of 5th grade material that was fermented in 2005. Aged...

This little brick is early spring tea of Menghai, picked in a 1 leaf to 1 bud ratio. This type of picking gives the tea a tippy look and feel with ...

Ben Wei Da Cheng means something like "Creating the Original Taste".  The question is a good one.  There are so many tea growing areas in Yunnan pr...

A newer blend created to celebrate the birthplace of Xiaguan tea factory. Dali a smallish city at the base of the Cang Mountains, and bordering the...

Wild Hei Cha from Yun Tai Mountains. This is the original An Hua tea varietal that has grown in the mountains of Gao Jia Shan and Yun Tai Shan for ...

These "Cu Tao" clay cha hai were fired in wood burning kiln.  Being porous these can be seasoned and dedicated for a certain type of tea.  Would be...

This is a lovely cloth cozy with embossed gold blossoms on a navy blue fabric.  Keep your teapot or gaiwan safe when storing or transporting! Dimen...

Foshan Qing Dynasty Style Mudan Flower Cup and Saucer Volume: 60ml

2023 was a great year for YS teas, particularly the ripe productions! Join us as we highlight some of the these great teas - Part 1. Experience the...

A new old blend for 2025! Our original Cha Qi was released in 2011 and has since become a classic Yunnan Sourcing blend! Our 2025 Cha Qi is a uniqu...

Final year CNNP production. Old plantation tea from spring 2005 harvest was pressed into these potent tea cakes and dry aged in Kunming for 14 year...

Huang Cao Ba village is in the northwestern part of Jinggu very near Mengku County. It sits at an altitude of 1700 meters and is home to tea trees ...

Another dry-aged ripe beauty from Menghai! A humble looking bamboo leaf wrapped brick with no nei fei belies its complex inner character. Some mild...

This is a production of Xin Ban Zhang plantation tea pressed by Xinghai Tea Factory of Menghai from Spring 2004! Aged in Guangzhou in a dry storage...

This is a 2013 Spring harvested tea from old plantation trees and bushes growing in Xiao Xi Gui Village (a sister village to Xi Gui) in the Bang Do...

Suan Zao Shu village is one of the most remote villages in the Jinggu area, taking nearly 2 hours from Jinggu town to arrive there.  The winding di...

We are proud to announce our very first He Kai (贺开) village production!  He Kai village area is south of Menghai town on the way to Lao Ban Zhang. ...

This beautiful tea set is crafted from Ice Jade Porcelain (冰玉瓷), a refined high-grade porcelain known for its cool, jade-like translucence and exce...

This is a lovely middle mountain (中山) elevation Mi Lan Xiang (蜜兰香) from Siwangping village, grown at an altitude of roughly 750 meters from 100+ y...

We are very excited to offer a sun-dried, wild arbor, pure assamica varietal Black tea! It's harvested from 100+ year old tea trees growing natural...

Spring 2019 Bu Lang material wet piled in summer 2019! Viscous, mild woody taste, sweet dried fruit and some bitterness. A classic Menghai region f...

Liming Tea Factory is located in Menghai and specializes in both ripe and raw pu-erhs composed of Xishuangbanna tea leaves.  The Yi Wu Big Green Tr...

  Zhu Ye "Bamboo Leaf" Dan Cong is a special sub-varietal of Zhi Lan Xiang.  Our offering is from 100+ year old trees growing naturally. The name Z...

Clean, well-stored early-2000s Menghai ripe modeled on the classic 7572 profile: smooth wood and dark-honey sweetness with a gentle cocoa note and ...

Finally the perfect tea brewer!  The design is such that the tea brewing happens entirely within glass and stainless steel, without coming into con...

This is a ripe pu-erh Xiaguan pressed with tea harvested from Da Xue Shan (Big Snow Mountain) in Mengku County (Lincang) of Yunnan. This wet piled ...

A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an average blend of 7th grade material that was fermented last year, so the cake does not have that just fer...

Ma Zui Shi is a small village in the mountains north of Jinggu county that sits at an altitude of almost 1800 meters. The tea that we used to hand ...

This is a classic Changtai Tea Factory offering pressed from a blend of 15 unique regions of Yunnan.  Changtai Tea Factory tirelessly collected Spr...

This is a spring 2007 pressing done in a small Feng Qing area tea factory and then aged in a dry storage condition in Guangzhou until August 2018 w...

About this tea in Li Wen Hua's own words: Jingmai Mountain, one of the representatives of Yunnan's outstanding Pu'er tea production areas. Here is ...

Nan Jian Tu Lin tea factory has a long history of more than 30 years producing Pu-erh teas.  Their productions are often similiar to Xiaguan produ...

Da Qing Gu Shu (Da Qing Old Tree) is my favorite tea from Spring 2015.  It's made from old tree tea leaves picked from the first flush of Spring. ...

A small production from a family producer in Yi Wu town.  This has been aged for 10 years in tropical Jinghong town of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (Y...

Our 2026 release of Cozy is exactly what the name promises: a comforting, velvety, cha tou-heavy ripe pu-erh built for slow evenings, cold weather,...

This ripe tea cake is a blend of several unique batches of Bu Lang Mountain area teas! Thick, bitter, and sweet, with chocolatey bite and a potent ...

Super colorful, lightweight, and durable titanium cups in six colors. Can be purchased as a set or individually! Volume: 50ml (+/1 5ml) Spend $250...

Chen You Shan is a small An Hua area tea producer that produces their own Fu Cha, Tian Jian and Qian Liang (and Bai Liang) Cha. They have been prod...

Early spring 2023 material from 60 to 80 year old tea trees (老太地/野放茶) growing wild on the southern slope of Ba Da mountain not far from Menghai tow...

This is a small farmer pressing from Lincang wet-piled teas. Aged in Lincang for 7 years and then in Guangdong (Dongguan), which has given this an ...

Entirely spring 2019 harvested tea from pure assamica bushes growing in Meng Song village.  Meng Song village is northwest from the Nan Nuo mountai...

This is a well-aged Guangdong storage ripe pu-erh tea pressed in 2006 by the Lao Man'e Brand. This is composed of Gong Ting (tippy grade) ripe pu-e...

To celebrate this year we selected a wild arbor sourced Ripe Pu-erh tea from Spring 2014 and pressed into this lovely 250 gram cake. Tea leaves fr...

Cha Tou is a kind of tea nugget that forms naturally from the pressures of compression and heat that occurs during the fermentation process. Typica...

This Autumn white label YS production is made entirely from wild arbor tea growing in Bang Ma village, Mengku county of Lincang. Bang Ma village is...

This ripe cake is pressed from a wet pile batch made entirely from the Zhenkang area of Lincang. The tea leaves were harvested in 2023 and wet pile...