2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Meng Song" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake

This ripe cake is pressed a from a wet pile batch done entirely from Meng Song area (Menghai County) tea leaves harvested in 2019 and wet piled in late 2019!

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 2020 expect that there will be some wet pile taste throughout 2020, 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 (Ba Da, Jingmai, and Bu Lang)

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

Wrapper Designed by David Hunt

Pressed April 20th 2020

Only 100 kilograms in total (400 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.