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2017 Yunnan Sourcing "Crimson Rooster" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

Original price $9.75 USD - Original price $63.00 USD
Original price $9.75 USD - Original price $63.00 USD
Original price
$9.75 USD - $63.00 USD
$9.75 USD - $63.00 USD
Current price $9.75 USD

Our "Crimson Rooster" is a ripe pu-erh tea cake composed of a blend of tea leaves harvested in Spring 2016 from the Mengku region of Lincang.  The tea underwent wet piling in Menghai (Xishuangbanna) under the supervision of the same wet piling master as our 2015 Green Miracle and 2016 Immortal Monkey.  

The tea is strong and full-bodied and produces a thick dark tea soup.  The tea has some dark chocolate-like bitterness and a quick sweetness that follows and blends with a spicy dried fruit taste that lingers in the mouth and throat, in a most comforting manner. This is a medium level of wet piling, the leaves having little green color, but lacking the mud-like consistency of heavy wet piled style ripe.  This is a traditional process ripe pu-erh, processed in a decades old Menghai tea factory, and overseen by a wet pile master with decades of experience.

As with any young ripe pu-erh the wet pile taste will be with it for the next 2 to 4 years (after 2017) depending on the storage condition.

 

250 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Only 150 kilograms in total available!

Wrapper Design by Sébastien Mathios (France)

 

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.

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