1999 Basket Aged Loose Leaf Ripe Pu-erh Tea from Menghai

Name: 1999 Basket Aged Loose Leaf Ripe Pu-erh Tea from Menghai
Price: 11.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (44 reviews)

by Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

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This is a pure Kunming aged loose leaf ripe pu-erh tea from Menghai aged in a basket! 20 years of aging has given this tea an incredibly unique and complex taste. Dried fruit, camphor wood, five spices and tobacco. There is also a "chen xiang" that can only really be described as "aged taste", which is unique to aged pu-erh and is particularly prominent in dry aged pu-erh teas!

I highly recommend this tea! Don't take my word for it, get a small amount and experience it for yourself!

Each basket contains roughly 500 grams of tea!

***These baskets were packed many years ago and the weight varies from basket to basket. Please do not expect exactly 500g. These are being sold "as is."

4.8 44 Reviews, 2 Q&As

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03/10/25

C. O.

03/01/25

The real deal.

Only a couple steeps in and can say this is the real deal. The only real thing I can compare it to is "the smell of a good unlit cigar". Very mellow on the flavor and very clear in the cup. A deep chestnut brown brew rather than the usual shou inky black. Got a whole basket and can't wait to see how it develops over the next few years. Although co...Read More

mpared to the brick shou from '99 I have this tastes much older, perhaps because it isn't pressed. Read Less

Petr

01/06/25

Best pu-erh ever

What else?

Szilard

12/03/24

Clean and Smooth

Using 9g in a 175ml DHP clay zisha. Rinse discarded. 15s to 70s brews, six in total.
(1) Substantial. Typical Menghai shou IMHE. No wo dui. Good with milk, mint hard candy sweetness.
(2) Same, but nicer. Went down fast. Very nice aftertaste. Not simply negro hard candy, but more like butterscotch hui gan.
(3) Neat, it is very nice, smo...Read More

oth and sweet, but I still like it a little bit more with milk.
(4) Feels like a weaker brew (user error :-)
(5) and so on: all good, all very nice and clean.
It's a yummy ripe, I probably didn't push it hard enough. A year's worth of supply would be about $800, and I still have a lot of samples to try, before I commit to two and a half kilos of this or a tong or two of some other ripe. But IDK what will happen when my 50g sample is gone. Might get a basket anyway. Read Less

Aleksandr R.

09/12/24

super tea

Levi K.

02/23/24

Good everyday drinker - rocket

Good everyday drinker - rocket fuel!
Leather couch - yumm

Robert

03/18/23

Q: Please point out a raw pu-erh you have in stock that you deem similarly accomplished as this one is for old ripe.

Very happy having followed your advice on ordering a small sample, gracias!

Store Owner

03/18/23

A: Please email support@yunnansourcing.com to start this conversation.

Don M.

04/26/19

Q: I was surprised to find little berry-like things among the leaves. Are those seed pods? I've never found them in any tea before. Are they characteristic of certain kinds of tea?

Store Owner

04/26/19

A: Those are the flower kernels. Tea flowers not opened yet.

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