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Produced in 2000, this Menghai ripe spent its first years aging in Menghai and then continued in Kunming, a clean, natural progression that has she...

Typically Yunnan green tea is made from hybridized varietals like Yun Kang #10, Chang Ye Bai Hao, or Yun Kang #100. These hybrids are drought-resis...

This is a blend of "ye sheng" purple raw pu-erh tea and ripe pu-erh from several regions! This pressing is our third pressing of a "ye sheng" raw a...

Expertly fermented 2023 material from the Jingmai area of Lancang county (Simao) was wet-piled and then pressed into this lovely 250 gram mini cake...

Made entirely from Spring harvested tea leaves! Bing Dao Lao Zhai (lit Bing Dao Old Village) is one of the two villages called "Bing Dao".  There ...

This tea is made entirely from high altitude Wu Liang mountain tea.  The Wu Liang mountains peak out at about 3300 meters, making them the highest ...

This is the fourth cake in our "Road to Yi Wu" (易武之道) series of cakes.  We have selected fall harvest (谷花茶) wild arbor material from the area of "D...

This year we were very lucky to be able to get about 8000 grams of tea from a small grove of wild trees growing near Bang Dong village in Lincang. ...

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. ...

"Cha Tou Sheng Yun" (茶头圣韵 aka Cha Tou Sage Verse) is our Cha Tou (Tea Nugget) ripe pu-erh brick and our third production (our 1st production was in...

Mu Shu Cha or "Mother Tree Tea" is made from a blend of Bing Dao wild arbor tea leaves and other Mengku area tea leaves from Spring 2012.  Mu Shu ...

Very nicely Guangdong aged Liming pressing! 7540 is Liming's take on the classic 7542. The almost 20 years of dry aging in Guangdong has moderated ...

Entirely Ancient Arbor tea from Spring 2017 Harvest from Man Zhuan in Yi Wu mountain range. Man Zhuan is one of the six famous tea mountains in Ba...

Introducing the 2025 Peerless Gold Label, a small-batch blend built from rare, mature-tree leaf (picked in a natural, low-input environment), craft...

This tea is made entirely from first flush of Spring 2024 high altitude Wu Liang mountain tea. The tea was processed into white tea using shade-dry...

This is purely Lao Man'e village ripe pu-erh tea harvested from mature trees in Spring 2022 and then wet piled in Autumn 2022.  This is the most po...

  2021 was another spectacular year for YS teas, especially ripe! Join us as we highlight some of the these great teas - Part 1. Experience the d...

This is a spring 2018 harvested mao cha that was pressed in 2019.  It's from an undisclosed location in the Bu Lang mountains.  This is an incredib...

Gu Shu Bai Cha means "Old Tree White Pekoe Tea".  White Pekoe refers to a Jinggu varietal called Camellia Assamica Taliensis that is very large an...

This is a cake composed entirely of the "huang pian" (mature larger leaves) that were hand-plucked from the mao cha (loose leaf raw pu-erh) that co...

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...

Mini cakes are a great way to get to know a tea. They're not small, but they're not huge either, so they allow you to experiment with different bre...

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...

Old arbor Jing Gu area camellia taliensis tea leaves were processed into this lovely lightly-wilted and then air-dried black/white tea and then pre...

This cake is pressed from a blend of Menghai area ripe pu-erh teas. The blend of tippy and medium sized leaves yields a classically Menghai smooth,...

This is a blend of tea from Spring 2016 that was aged as loose leaf (mao cha) before being pressed in December 2020.  This is a warm and nurturing ...

This is a pressing of Mengku tea harvested in Spring 2003 and then stored in Nan Jian until early 2020 when the tea stocks were moved to Kunming.  ...

This is another cake in our "aged as mao cha" series, but this one is a blend of several different regions of aged mao cha and also from several di...

Wa Long village is not far from Man Zhuan village in the Yi Wu mountain area.  It's a remote village and the tea we sourced from there is in the m...

A small production from a local producer and friend of ours in Mengku area of Lincang.  The was produced from pesticide-free tea harvested in spri...

A blend of Spring and Autumn 2023 harvested from old "Mother" tea trees growing in Big Snow Mountain area of Lincang. 200+ year old tea trees growi...

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...

A lovely old arbor (古树白茶) white tea cake made from Autumn 2022 tea harvested from 80-300 year old tea trees in Man Gang village (Bang Dong, Lincang...

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 the final Yunnan Sourcing production for 2009.  Fall tea harvested in mid-October from Mang Jing village in the Jing Mai mountains was used...

A lovely old arbor (古树) blend of black tea and white tea made from Autumn 2022 tea harvested from 80-300 year old tea trees in Man Gang village (Ba...

This is premium Mengku ripe tea made from entirely spring harvested tea! Wet-piled in a Mengku area tea factory and then aged for about 2 years bef...

Ba Da Mountain First Flush of Spring 2015 tea leaves were picked and processed into mao cha (loose leaf raw pu-erh tea) and then aged for 5 years i...

This is a first flush of Spring 2019 pluck from Pa Sha Mountain (帕沙山) is just south of Gelanghe in the southeast part of Menghai County (Xishuangba...

Entirely "ye sheng" varietal tea from the highest reaches of the Wu Liang mountains.  Growing above 2000 feet these wild tea bushes range from 50 ...

This tea cake is composed from early spring harvest of purple tea from the Yi Wu mountains in Xishuangbanna. Purple tea leaves from bushes aged 20 ...

Our Man Tang Hong "Number 2" cake is composed from an average of grade 2 ripe tea leaves harvested from mature tea bushes in Mengku county (Lincang...

This ripe cake is pressed from a wet pile batch made entirely from Meng Song area (Menghai County) tea leaves harvested in 2024 and wet piled in la...

A blend of Lincang ripes teas from 5 different areas of Lincang! Smooth, thick, and potent with notes of fruit, mushroom, and chocolate! Entirely S...

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...

This is a first flush of Spring 2019 "Huang Pian" from old tea trees in the area of Bang Dong village in Lincang.  Huang Pian (黄片) are mature leav...

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 ...

Da Shan (lit. Big Mountain) is an area in the northwest of Jinggu county not too far from Bang Dong area (Lincang). Our Da Shan black tea is plucke...