2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Suan Zao Shu" Old Arbor Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Name: 2025 Yunnan Sourcing "Suan Zao Shu" Old Arbor Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
Price: 82.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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$10.70 - $82.00

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Suan Zao Shu village is one of the most remote villages in the Jinggu area, taking nearly 2 hours from Jinggu town to arrive there. The winding dirt roads stop about 5 kilometers before you arrive and the remaining distance must be traversed by foot. Suan Zao Shu village lies at an altitude of 1800 meters and is home to tea trees ranging in age from 50 years up to 400 years. Our Suan Zao Shu tea cake is made from tea leaves harvested from 200-300 year old tea trees in the Li family tea garden.

Suan Zao Shu tea is very strong in flavor, aroma and cha qi. The flavor is that of fruit with a honey-like sweetness and a touch of sour, as well as having a bitter and savory edge as well that adds to its depth. The aroma is hard to describe, brothy and mushroom-like. This tea has a very strong mouth-feel, returning taste (hui gan) and the cha qi is a bit stupefying (in a good way). The brewed leaves are mostly dark olive in color, large (in scale), thick and stout stemmed.

In Summary

Caffeine: Medium
Storage & aging: Store cool, dry, odor-free, away from light; allow normal airflow. This cake is poised for steady development over 3–10+ years as bitterness mellows and honey/jujube deepen.
Region: Suan Zao Shu Village, Jinggu (1,800 meters)
Trees: 200–300-year-old old-arbor (Li family)
Harvest: April 2025
Process: Traditional sheng; stone-pressed
Net weight: 250 g per cake (7 cakes per tong)
Production: 60 kg total (240 cakes)
Wrapper: Artwork by Elena Marie Honzáková

In short: A remote-mountain, old-arbor Suan Zao Shu sheng with honeyed fruit and meadow sweetness over savory–brothy aromatics, tidy green bitterness, and a long, cooling hui-gan with commanding cha qi, stone-pressed and produced in tiny quantity.

Previous Yunnan Sourcing pressings of Suan Zao Shu are listed below:

This tea has been tested in a certified laboratory for 404 pesticides, and is within the EU MRL limits set for those 404 pesticide residues. For a full list of the 404 pesticides we tested for and more information about MRL testing and the EU Food and Safety commission click on this link.

Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 2 reviews.

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Really good.

"This tea is really good. I was used to the aged version, which is a little more subtle and has a little more "fermented" taste, but this one is delicious fresh too, and maybe easier to prepare right."

— Bruno S. (5/5)

a Good one!!

"another YS nice strong Taste!!! it will aged surely good! I recommend it!!!"

— Jacobo M. (4/5)