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This is a first flush of spring 2025 harvested tea!  You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway bet...

This is a well aged Guangdong storage ripe pu-erh tea pressed into a 100 gram tuo in 2011 by the Lao Man'e Brand.  This is composed of a blend of g...

A blend of Menghai teas with strong taste and strong cha qi! Pao 泡 - Brew Tea Pow - The cha qi! Pau! (Hawaiian) - All done! 250 Grams per cake (7...

This is a first flush of spring 2024 harvested tea!  You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway be...

A classic Xinghai ripe tea produced from Bu Lang mountain tea. Xinghai has titled this tea "Lao Ban Zhang", but that's pretty unlikely. Even large...

This is a small production with white wrapper pressed by a long-time friend of ours! She's finally decided to sell the tea after so many years! Thi...

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...

This is a special pressing of Menghai area ripe pu-erh tea that was wet-piled in Menghai and then aged in Kunming until now!  This is a classic sha...

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 be...

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...

A new old blend for 2023! Our original Cha Qi was released in 2011 and has since become a classic Yunnan Sourcing blend! Our 2023 Cha Qi is a uniqu...

This "Emperor's Golden Pu-erh" 茶皇 is an incredibly laborious tea to produce. A wet pile batch made from Meng Song Village spring harvested tea leav...

This is a Spring 2022 harvested from You Le mountain! Instead of being processed into Pu-erh tea, it was processed into a spectacular white tea! Yo...

This is a Spring 2021 harvested tea (pressed in 2022)!  You Le Mountain (aka Ji Nuo mountain 基诺山) is situated east of Jing Hong city about halfway...

An excellent ripe tea from one of the original Menghai ripe pu-erh tea factories! Xinghai pressed this cake entirely from Yi Wu mountain area ripe ...

This is a well-aged Guangdong storage ripe pu-erh tea pressed in 2006 by the Lao Man'e Brand. This is composed of Gong Ting (tippy grade) ripe pu-e...

This Yi Wu region harvested tea was wet piled in Menghai in 2001 and then aged in baskets in a Guangdong dry storage condition in Dongguan.   The r...

This is a classic Changtai Tea Factory offering pressed from Nannuo area spring 2005 tea leaves. Changtai Tea Factory tirelessly collected Spring 2...

This is a Guangdong dry aged "Farmer CNNP" wrapped cake from 2008.  It was stored in Guangdong until early 2020, and then Kunming thereafter.   The...

This is most likely a generic production which uses a classic "Big Yellow Mark" with large characters wrapper.  This is a private production pressi...

This is a high quality blend of Menghai tea from Ba Da, Bu Lang, Nan Nuo and Meng Song.  Pressed in 2006 and then stored in Guangdong until early 2...

We are proud to announce our second Yi Wu area ripe pu-erh tea cake produced under the Yunnan Sourcing Brand! We used spring 2018 plantation and wi...

First flush of spring Yi Wu tea was processed by hand and then pressed by stone press into these lovely cakes.  Already 10 years old, this tea bre...

This is raw pu-erh tea brick from Pasha Mountain in Menghai.  Harvested and pressed in 2004 and then aged in Jinghong (Xishuangbanna) until now, ha...

This tea was pressed 15 years ago (in 2005) by a small Menghai tea factory.  These are 25 gram Golden Melon tuo cha (金瓜沱) made from a blend of Gong...

The Star of Yi Wu mountain cake is composed entirely Yi Wu material but is not composed entirely of wild arbor material.  The majority is composed ...

Another lovely uncooked Pu-erh commemorating the Dai minority usage of the Thai calendar. Wild tree pu-erh compressed into brick form. Fairly big l...

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 to...

Probably a small Menghai area tea factory produced this cake under the CNNP (zhong cha) label.  Likely not a licensed CNNP production! Stored in M...

This is a Spring 2013 Yi Wu cake that was wet-piled for about 25 days (instead of the full 45 days). This is what's called half-fermented or half ...

Final year CNNP production. Old plantation tea from spring 2005 harvest was pressed into these potent tea cakes and dry aged in Kunming for 14 year...