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2010 Yunnan Sourcing "Jing Gu Yang Ta" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

2010 Yunnan Sourcing "Jing Gu Yang Ta" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

by Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
$21.50 - $178.75
$21.50
$21.50 - $178.75
$21.50

Jing Gu Yang Ta village is in Jing Gu county of Simao prefecture (景谷秧塔寨).  It is well known for it's "Da Bai" (大白 - Big White) tea.  Actually the tea here is not Camellia Sinensis rather another varietal called Camellia Taliensis.  Camellia Taliensis growing in Jing Gu's red soil has prominent large fat leaves and hairy white buds.  Tea from this region is well-known for it's beautiful appearance, and tea sellers have been know to blend this tea with Yi Wu tea to make it (Yi Wu tea) more beautiful and bright in appearance while at the same time bolstering it's sweetness and thickness.

We visited this tea garden in mid-February (Chinese New Year time) and made contact with the village leaders who manage this village cooperative tea garden.  When we went the weather was dry, and the soil had been mulched and turned just two weeks before.  This tea garden contains trees between 60 and 350 years old, it is near the village and has been tended for hundreds of years.  This year because of dry conditions water was brought in and ladled at the base of these trees by hand.  It is a lovely example of a cooperatively run and owned tea garden and one that has been tended lovingly by its participants. The tea here is sought by many producers and the Yang Ta co-op is able to sell all of its tea at prices that allow them to live a comfortable lifestyle.  We were lucky enough to be able to convince them to reserve 70 kilograms of their wild and ancient arbor tea for us.

 

First Flush of Spring 2010 material * Stone-Compressed

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

Region:  Yang Ta Village, Jing Gu County, Lincang Prefecture

Overall rating: 4.75 / 5 from 4 reviews.

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Yum!

"Drinking this gem 15 years later, I taste and smell wood, resin, wax, honey, in a powerful mouthful yet not overpowering. Rich, deep and thick tea"

— Cédric (5/5)

A very smooth full bodied tea.

"I only gave this 4 stars because I haven't been drinking sheng long enough to feel that I can truely identify a 5 star tea. However, I love this tea. It's smooth, but full bodied with a nice sweetness in the aftertaste. The cake came apart very nicely with most of the leaves separating without breaking. I have a lot of different teas teas, but I find that I keep coming back to this one several times per week. I probably should order another cake now before it's all gone."

— Michael A. (4/5)

Great tea

"Large leaves, big and bold. Builds quickly and opens in the first two steeps. Highly recommend."

— Anonymous_Reviewer (5/5)

Favorite YS yang ta

"I tend to enjoy much stronger, even pungent at times, sheng cakes. I have a 2006 jinggu factory cake that I drink as a really pleasant change of pace or maybe a second session after another tea I couldn't stomach more of. It's a dwindling supply so I looked on YS for a similar jinggu and from descriptions decided I was looking for a yang ta jinggu. I ordered samples of all the vintages of YS yang ta. This one is my favorite. Slightly more than the following year's but those two more so than even later vintages. I purchased this cake because it was my favorite. The following year's I would consider if I wanted the larger more traditional size but I liked this one for immediate but slow consumption. Very delicious, sweet and comfortable in the mouth."

— John C. (5/5)

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