2019 Yunnan Sourcing "Meng Song" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

This ripe cake is pressed from a wet pile batch made entirely from Meng Song area (Menghai County) tea leaves harvested in 2018 and wet piled in late 2018!

Meng Song ripe tea has a very potent cha qi, with a thick tea soup, dark chocolate like bitterness and fruity sweetness. Pure Meng Song ripe tea is relatively rare. It has a unique bitter-sweet character with a fast hui gan and a touch of licorice sweet after-taste.

For those of you who purchase this tea during the year of 2019 expect that there will be some wet pile taste throughout 2019, but will fade gradually as the tea ages.  Remember pu-erh increases in palatability and complexity with age!  In Chinese we refer to this as 越陈越香.

We are also offering three other Menghai area ripe teas with a similar wrapper (Meng Song, He Kai Village, Ba Da, and Bu Lang Mountain).

250 Grams per Cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)

Wrapper Designed by Anastasija Kulda

Pressed June 1st 2019

Only 120 kilograms in total (480 cakes)

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.