2023 Yunnan Sourcing "You Le Shan" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Name: 2023 Yunnan Sourcing "You Le Shan" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
Price: 58.75 USD
Availability: InStock

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This is a first flush of spring 2023 harvested tea!

You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway between Jing Hong and Yi Wu. The tea was picked and processed entirely by hand by the growers themselves in a protected area (国有林) near the village of Sheng Niu (生牛). The tea is tippy and healthy and is covered with downy silver fur. The raw material is almost entirely intact leaf and bud sets and so stone-compression was used to preserve the natural beauty of this tea.

The brew itself is full and round. The very characteristic You Le taste is present, fragrant with some floral notes, sweet and full in the mouth but with a vegetal bitterness present. An excellent single-estate You Le tea! Just 65 kilograms produced in total!

Net Weight: 250 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Harvest/Pressing Time: April 2023 (July 15th 2023 pressing)

Harvest Area: Ya Nuo village of You Le mountain, Jing Hong Shi, Xi Shuang Banna prefecture of Yunnan

Total Production amount: 50 Kilograms

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 404 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 404 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 404 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.

Wrapper design created by Scott Wilson using Dall-e

Overall rating: 4.6666665 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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This is not a pipe

"Old school character. This tea has the character people tell you is going to age well. But what do people know ? It is going to become a pure pipe tabacco flavor tea for sure. Sweet tabacco in a wood burl box. It has slight astringency, thin smoke ( like from the actual tea, not just processing you know ? ), beautiful wild style bitterness, flowery undertones ( candied ), roundness, length… Much length It is definitely not my favorite profile, but I was looking for tea with this style, but with better quality than the ones I tried before. Beautiful leaves, quite reddened. You know when you make people try puerh, you have a conundrum, make them try this burly puerh ? Or super fancy sweet fruity ones ? You decide !"

— Thibaud (5/5)

Splendid

"I’ve worked my way through a sampler of Black Teas, which have ranged from tones of citrus peel to plum syrup, to bright and tart. A fine selection. Thank you."

— Michael S. (5/5)