2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Name: 2018 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Nuo Wu Village" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
Price: 173.5 USD
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Nuo Wu Village is in Mengku County of Lincang. It's about 4 kilometers (as the crow flies) south and slightly east of Bing Dao village in the highlands on the eastern side of the Mengku River. Bing Dao on the western side of the river is at 1550 meters altitude, whereas Nuo Wu is at 1800+ meters altitude. The exact location is here!

The Nuo Wu Village tea garden tea trees where our material comes from are 80-200 years old and grow naturally without human intervention. The trees are typical Mengku large leaf varietal that have grown in this area of Yunnan since ancient times. The leaves are olive green, thick and stout. The brewed tea is thick and sweet with bitterness that fades and transforms into something cooling and lubricating in the mouth and throat.

A total of 30 kilograms in total was produced. We pressed these tea cakes with a stone-press and used low-temperature drying to preserve the integrity of the tea.

Net Weight: 400 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)
Harvest time: October 2018
Harvest Area: Nuo Wu village, Mengku county, Lincang Prefecture
Total Production amount: 30 kilograms
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This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 191 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 191 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 191 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.

Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 2 reviews.

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"Pleasantly surprised by this one! I got the 25g sampler and this is my first go with it. I am doing my usual 100ml 95c water, 5g tea, Yixing Zini pot, 25+5s steeps. It's a weird one. Dry heated leaves have a complex umami, salty, sweet & sourness to it, the sourness was especially unexpected. Reminds me of a Bing Dao I once sampled from another store, the similarity being the umami & salty weirdness. After brewing, the taste has some honey sweetness and holds onto the umami from earlier, but let go of the sourness. Mildly bitter, the bitterness isn't bright but subdued. From the start it's a bit astringent, a drying on my tongue. It's pretty balanced and satisfying in flavor and intensity, and on 3rd steep I accidently went over 3 minutes and it was still balanced without any additional bitterness that I'd expect with longer steeps! A tame and forgiving brew. I have had all the Nuo Wu sheng's that YS has in stock today, this one is the cheapest one and I think lives up to the others. It's not as honey sweet, luxurious, and clean with no bitterness as like the Spring 2017 that goes for over double the price as this one, but it has some similarities like some of the honey sweetness and forgiving brew but does have a added autumn intensity and interesting umami twist to it that the former do not have. As I write this I forgot it was steeping again, this 5th or 6th steep at 10+ minutes actually now has even less bitterness than before. I am interested if my impression changes in later sessions, I'll have to have a go with it at 99c, and more commitment on my attention to timings. I think I might have to pick up this cake as well. :) To sum it up TLDR : It's weird with umami, it's interesting, honey sweet, bitterness is tame and not overly bitter, it's got the autumn intensity to it, medium astringency."

— Tomas (5/5)