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2019 was a great year for YS teas especially ripe! Join us as we highlight some of the these great teas - Part 3. Experience the diverse character...

Tian Fu Xiang was a small Menghai Tea factory that started in the early-2000s.  Tian Fu Xiang was started by Zhang Li Xiang who worked for the Meng...

Hui Man Xin brand is produced by a small Menghai area tea factory that specializes in ripe pu-erh tea wet piling.  They've produced tea in Menghai ...

2014 Harvested tea from the Bulang mountains of Menghai (Xishuangbanna)! Aged in a loose leaf form since 2014 in Menghai and then brought to Kunmin...

Entirely spring 2019 harvested tea from pure assamica bushes growing in Meng Song village.  Meng Song village is northwest from the Nan Nuo mountai...

First flush of spring 2012 material from 60 to 100 year old wild arbor tea trees growing in Xin Ban Zhang village. Xin Ban Zhang is the neighbor vi...

Another Xinghai production, but this time made entirely from fermented Bu Lang mountain material.  Strong thick taste with a good amount of bitter...

Old Arbor Tea harvested from the Guang Bie Old Village area in the Bu Lang Mountains of Menghai.  Strong, with bitterness that precedes a strong th...

A nice Xiaguan FT release supposedly from 5 Banzhang area villages (see Xiaguan's description below).  To me it tastes like a really nice blend of ...

This is a newer blend from 2005, consisting of an average of grade 6 tea leaves.  Similar to the classic 7562 blend which comes in the form of a br...

Lucky Brand is a 1997-2005 CNNP Brand logo. Most of the teas produced under the Lucky Brand were ripe pu-erh teas fermented in the Yiliang Tea Fact...

Tian Fu Xiang was a small Menghai Tea factory that started in the early-2000s.  Tian Fu Xiang was started by Zhang Li Xiang who worked for the Meng...

A CNNP production from 1998 blended along the lines of Menghai Tea Factory's classic 7262. Pressed from Menghai harvested tea leaves and also wet-p...

"Cha Wang" 茶王 means "King Tea!" Tons of bitterness with a thick thick bodied tea soup! Only 100 cakes in total! Run, don't walk! Go to your nearest...

A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an average blend of 7th grade material that was fermented last year, so the cake does not have that just fer...

A new blend for the year 2007 from the Haiwan tea factory. "Zao Chun Yin Hao" meaning is "Early Spring Premium" and is composed entirely of Spring ...

This is a well aged Guangdong storage ripe pu-erh tea pressed in 2008 by the Lao Man'e Brand.   This is composed of a blend of gong ting, te ji, gr...

This ripe tea cake is a blend of several unique batches of Bu Lang Mountain area teas! Thick, bitter, and sweet, with chocolatey bite and a potent ...

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

Liming Tea Factory is located in Menghai and specializes in both ripe and raw pu-erhs composed of Xishuangbanna tea leaves.  This cake was stored i...

This is a spring 2018 pressing from entirely Ban Pen village older tea trees.  Ban Pen village is in the Bu Lang mountains and is one of closest vi...

"Yue Chen Yue Xiang" means "The older, the more aromatic" and it's the perfect term to describe the essence of Pu-erh tea culture! This cake has be...

"Yue Chen Yue Xiang" means "The Older, the More Aromatic".  This is the first thing that I ever learned about Pu-erh tea.  In 1996 I went to the c...

Wei Zui Yan means "Strongest Taste". Menghai tea factory first produced this blend in both raw and ripe form in 2006. This 2017 Ripe cake has a str...

This is a 2015 Spring Harvest blend of Menghai raw pu-erh teas.  Wild arbor mao cha was harvested from several different areas of Menghai (Bu Lang,...

Cha Tou is a kind of tea nugget that forms naturally from the pressures of compression and heat that occurs during the fermentation process. Typic...

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...

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 ...

Spring 2023 harvested tea leaves that are 100% sourced from Lao Man'E Village (Bu Lang Mountains) tea from old plantation trees and bushes. Being p...

A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an average blend of 7th grade material that was fermented last year, so the cake does not have that just fer...

A premium production from Haiwan "Pure Amber" refers to the pure, clear amber colored tea soup that results from brewing this fine tea.Haiwan tea f...

This is a first flush of Spring 2023 pluck from Pa Sha Mountain (帕沙山) is just south of Gelanghe in the southeast part of Menghai County (Xishuangba...

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...

In 2018 Hai Lang collected 240 kilograms of spring 2018 harvested mao cha from Lao Ban Zhang village and had it painstakingly small-batch wet piled...

Classic Xinghai ripe pu-erh production.  Entirely Menghai area tea leaves fermented in the Xinghai tea factory (in Menghai town).  Aged for 9 year...

Entirely Zhang Jia San Dui Village ripe pu-erh tea! Zhang Jia San Dui is a Bu Lang Mountain area village that is well known for cultivating tea tha...

This is a special premium 7572 release to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Menghai Tea Factory! A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an av...

A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an average blend of 7th grade material that was fermented last year, so the cake does not have that just fer...

A classic recipe from Menghai. This is an average blend of 7th grade material that was fermented last year, so the cake does not have that just fer...

Classic but not often produced Menghai tea factory "7752" ripe recipe. Nice blend of perfectly fermented Menghai area tea leaves.Aged 10 years!Weig...

A classic recipe from Menghai, and the first production of 2013 (301). This is an average blend of 4th grade material from 2011 to 2013, so it has ...

This is the first "Bao He Xiang" ripe pu-erh tea cake released!  Produced from tippy grade Menghai area ripe tea blended from three different wet p...

A classic tea cake released in two batches only in 2006! "San Ji Pu Bing" means Grade 3 Pu-erh cake and denotes that an average of grade 3 ripe tea...

One of the the early productions of the Guoyan Tea Factory, a limited production of just 28399 cakes.  It is composed of a blend from the six famo...

The Dai people in Xishuangbanna have been making bamboo roasted tea for centuries!  Our offering was made from 2019 Spring harvested Meng Song vill...

This is another special production made by Changtai Tea Factory for Zhong Han Rong's Hong Kong Tea House. A blend of Menghai area spring 2006 harve...

Entirely spring 2018 harvested tea leaves from Man Ban village (曼班) old plantation tea bushes.   Man Ban village is a Bu Lang area village that is ...

2009 Chunhai production stored in dry Guangdong storage until August 2023!  Very nice blend with some gong ting and some grade 1,3,5 sized leaves. ...