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Stone-Pressed tea cake made from Wild Arbor tea! This tea cake is made entirely from spring 2010 Jie Liang Village tea!  Jie Liang is a Bu Lang Mou...

From Naka Mountain, at the northern edge of the Meng Song area (north of Nannuo), this lot comes from 100+ year-old trees growing around 1,950–2,00...

This year's Journey ripe tea cake is pure single-estate Luo Shui Dong Village tea harvested in spring and autumn 2024 and then wet-piled in the Jan...

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...

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 dir...

Lovely De Hua Jade Porcelain cup, wth a spherical "egg holder" shape. Very nice to hold in the hand and excellent shape for tea! Stunning transluce...

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 Zh...

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 dir...

This is the first release of the new DaYi 3rd generation style wet-piling. A totally unique process that is used only in their "Yi Yuan Su" line of...

Entirely Ancient Arbor tea from first flush of Spring 2023 Harvest from Ge Deng village (革登) in Yi Wu mountain range. Ge Deng is southwest from Yi ...

A small harvest of just 23 kilograms of tea from wild tea trees in a forest setting in the Bang Dong area of Lincang. True wild tea with a full-bod...

Spring harvest tea leaves from 200-300 year old tea trees growing in Jiu Tai Po village in Jinggu county of Simao. Jiu Tai Po or "9 Mesa Village" i...

Di Jie Village 地界 is in the area of Bingdao in Mengku area of Lincang.  Di Jie Village is well-known not just for it's proximity to Bingdao, but a...

Gan Hai Zi village (Dry Ocean Village) is located in the southeast of Jing Gu county of Simao.  The leaves used for our production come from matur...

Taste a curated selection of Raw Pu-erh from Bu Lang Mountain and develop an appreciation for the distinct aroma, flavor and mouthfeel of this ama...

Entirely first flush of spring 2013 material from plantation bushes growing near Lou Shui Dong village. Nice spring feeling... vibrant and fruity....

Entirely first flush of spring 2012 material from high altitude Ai Lao mountain.  The Ai Lao mountains peak out at about 3200 meters, making them s...

This tea cake is made entirely from Autumn 2010 Jie Liang Village tea! Jie Liang is a Bu Lang Mountain village about 10 miles west of Lao Man'e vil...

"Yi Ming Jing Ren" (一鸣惊人) is Nan Zhou brand Pu-erh tea cake made from highest grade tippy leaves and buds from Lincang and Wu Liang mountains of Yu...

We couldn't help ourselves when we decided to name this cup after our "Purple Voodoo" Black Tea cake! The colors, the movement and the overall feel...

This is a very rustic knobby bamboo brush for your teapot or tea table. Stained in a mahogany hue! 20cm in length

Lovely De Hua Jade Porcelain cup, wth a spherical "egg holder" shape. Very nice to hold in the hand and excellent shape for tea! Stunning transluce...

Entirely Zhang Jia San Dui Village ripe pu-erh tea! Zhang Jia San Dui is a Bu Lang Mountain area village that is well known for cultivating tea tha...

2023 was a great year for YS teas, particularly the ripe productions! Join us as we highlight some of the these great teas - Part 3. Experience the...

Hai Lang has done it again.  Hai Lang collected 300 kilograms of Spring 2021 harvested mao cha from Gao Shan Zhai Village  and had it painstakingly...

Nan Po Zhai is the closest village to Bing Dao village in the county of Mengku. It lies 2km from Bing Dao village in a roadless area filled with ce...

This is what we call a Farmer tea, a small producer pressing material under the generic CNNP "Zhong Cha" label. Unlikely to be true Ban Zhang villa...

We are pleased to offer our Spring 2021 harvested tea cake from "Man Gang Village" 漫岗 a small village just north of Bang Dong town (just west of Da...

We are pleased to offer our first ever tea cake from "Man Gang Village" 漫岗 a small village just north of Bang Dong town (just west of Da Qing and N...

Nan Po Zhai is the closest village to Bing Dao village in the county of Mengku.  It lies 2km from Bing Dao village in a roadless area filled with c...

  Take a flight around the Famous Tea Region of Lincang prefecture in the southwest of Yunnan province. Most of our Lincang Raw Pu-erh Teas are fro...

  Take a flight around the Famous Tea Region of Lincang prefecture in the southwest of Yunnan province. Most of our Lincang Raw Pu-erh Teas are fro...

Hai Zi Zhai (海子寨) is located in north JInggu just to the west of the 222 road to Zhenyuan.  There are only 12 families living in the village which ...

Enjoy a flight of 4 teas from the Famous Tea Region of Yi Wu! Taste a curated selection of samples from our 2018 Spring Yunnan Sourcing Brand Yi Wu...

Bang Dong Village (邦东寨) is located in the county Mengku, Lincang prefecture. Bang Dong is a small village situated at an altitude of 1600 meters. ...

Man Song 曼松 Village has a history of more than 300 years!  It became known in the Yongzheng period as a source for top pu-erh tea and in 1735 tea ...

San He Zhai? Never heard of it? That's because it doesn't exist. Our San He Zhai (aka Three Harmonized Villages) tea cake is a blend of tea from t...

Our first ever production from Bing Dao village.  We have produced other teas from neighboring villages but this Autumn we met a grower that had e...

From the same families as our Spring 2011 and 2012 production but entirely Autumn 2012 harvest material! "Mu Shu Cha" (母树茶) refers to the mother te...

Our Autumn Pasha tea is from the southwest side of the mountain are growing at an altitude of about 1750 meters, making it one of the highest alti...

This is a lovely gifting (or storage) box for a rectangular 250 or 500 gram pu-erh tea brick! Outer dimensions are 21 x 15 x 4.5cm Inner Dimensions...

Produced exclusively for Yunnan Sourcing by a small tea factory in Yong De.  We selected Fall 2010 material from wild arbor trees and then with ext...

Qing Zhuan (青砖) aka "Green Brick" is a unique tea with a long history. It is typically known as a Hubei specialty, but in fact it has also been pro...

Xiaguan Tea Factory has long been a producer of Pu-erh Tea, but has also been producing black tea and green tea for many decades as well! This is a...

Jin Chan (金蟾) is a mythological creature which is three-legged and spits up gold and other forms of wealth.  It is thought that when offerings are ...

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...

Early-spring 2025 material from 60–80-year-old naturally grown trees (老太地 / 野放茶) on the southern slope of Ba Da Mountain, not far from Menghai (Xis...

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...