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This tea cake is composed from late autumn harvest of purple tea from the Yi Wu mountains in Xishuangbanna.  Purple tea leaves from bushes aged 20 ...

Our Blue Label production celebrates the tail end of this Year of the Dragon.  We selected the highest quality ripe tea fermented from Yong De coun...

Autumn tea leaves from 100-200 year old wild arbor tea trees growing near Xi Bang village in Lincang.  An incredibly potent tea that gives a feelin...

Our 2012 "Little Bit of Red" production is made entirely from Menghai area material fermented in 2009 and 2010.  Similar to last year's blend, but ...

Entirely wild arbor tea from early spring 2012! Tea leaves taken from 100-200 year old tea trees growing on Mang Fei mountain in Yong De county of ...

Zhu Peng Zhai is a small village in the mountains of Yong De county in Lincang.  Zhu Peng Zhai means "Bamboo Roof Village". Our 2012 production is ...

Nan Po Zhai is the closest village to Bing Dao village in the county of Mengku. It lies two kilometers from Bing Dao village in a road-less area fi...

Our 2012 Spring "Mu Shu Cha" (母树茶) refers to the mother tea trees of Mengku where the oldest and most primitive Yunnan Large Leaf varietal tea tree...

Shang Chun "赏春" means "Springtime Reward." We tirelessly blended a variety of different wild arbor and ancient arbor mao cha to create this recipe ...

San He Zhai? Never heard of it? That's because it doesn't exist. Our San He Zhai (aka Three Harmonized Villages) tea cake is a blend of tea from th...

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...

Jia Bu is a neighboring village to Xi Kong village (3.3km due NE from Xi Kong) and shares a similar character to Xi Kong but still entirely unique ...

This tea cake is composed from early spring harvest of purple tea from the Yi Wu mountains in Xishuangbanna. Purple tea leaves from bushes aged 20 ...

Entirely first flush of spring 2012 material from high altitude Ai Lao mountain.  The Ai Lao mountains peak out at about 3200 meters, making them s...

Entirely first flush of Spring material from Jiu Miao village outside of Yi Wu town. Tea trees ranging from 100 to 400 years old! Classic Yi Wu Anc...

Gao Shan Village is nestled in the Yi Wu mountains NNE of Yi Wu town and is one of the highest elevation villages in the Yi Wu range. Gao Shan vill...

Our first ripe production of 2012. Expertly fermented 2011 material from Jingmai area of Lancang county (Simao) was graded and pressed into this lo...

Man Tang Hong Te Ji ripe cake is entirely Te Ji grade ripe tea, no other grades of tea were blended into it.  The material used was expertly fermen...

Our first raw production release for 2012! First flush of spring material from Yi Bi and Lou Shui Dong blended together in equal parts. Entirely no...

Our first raw production release for 2012! First flush of spring material from Man Zhuan village (Yi Wu mountains). Entirely no-spray tea leaves pi...

Wild Arbor King (乔木王) was first introduced in 2006, and quickly became one of Mengku's most popular raw pu-erhs.  In 2006 it won the prestigious E...

Entirely wild arbor tea from late Autumn 2011! Tea leaves taken from 100-200 year old tea trees growing on Mang Fei mountain in Yong De county of L...

Feng Yun is a blend of teas from three distinctly different areas of southern Yunnan.  This blend is the the lighter of the three in taste. It spor...

This is a powerful tea cake made entirely form first flush of spring 2012 material from Yong De county in Lincang.  Strong and astringent taste bu...

Mu Shu Cha or "Mother Tree Tea" is made from a blend of Bing Dao wild arbor tea leaves and other Mengku area tea leaves from Spring 2012.  Mu Shu ...

This is a powerful tea cake made entirely form first flush of spring 2011 material from Yong De county in Lincang. Strong and astringent taste but...

This is Mengku's classic blend of early spring material from Mengku county of Lincang.  Processed carefully to lock in the sun-dried essence and t...

"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...

Elephant Mountain is a small Dai minority village community in Menghai County with a Dai Temple of some renown.  It's also a tea growing area and ...

A new for 2015 production from Menghai Tea Factory (Da Yi Brand).  "Sui Yue" means both time and timelessness.  It's meant to express continuity f...

The name of this production "Chu Xin" means "Foremost in the Heart" and reflects the fine and exquisite nature of this tea.  Although this was pre...

Yi Pin Tang is a brand and tea factory in Menghai town in Xishuangbanna. They specialize in Ripe Pu-erh and their wet piling process is overseen b...

An early Jiang Cheng mountains area single mountain production.  Made entirely from wild arbor Jiang Cheng spring 2002 tea leaves and then pressed...

Jing Long is a small Yi Wu based producer that has been making tea since 1998.  This is a Spring 2006 tea cake that commemorates the Horse Caravan...

Nan Qiao is a medium size tea factory in Menghai town of Xishuangbanna.  It specializes in ripe pu-erh tea wet piling and does many productions of...

This was produced by a small tea factory in the Mengku area from Spring 2005 tea leaves from Xiao Hu Sai area of Mengku county in Lincang.  The te...

A powerful first flush of Spring 2015 tea from 50-80 year old trees growing in Da Xue Shan area of Lincang (45 km west of Lincang City).  Da Xue S...

"Fu Dao" 福到refers to the turning upside down of the "福" character which means Prosperity Arrives! Nan Qiao tea factory is an older more establishe...

Spring harvest tea leaves from Bo Nan Mountain in Long Yang county in Bao Shan prefecture (of Yunnan).  Pressed tightly but stored in tropical Lin...

This is a small production tea that is made entirely from Menghai area material. Huang Ying has been an connoisseur of fine teas for well over a d...

Nice conveniently size little mini brick individually wrapped in paper and enclosed in a little beige box. Entirely blended Menghai material (Ba D...

Probably a small Menghai area tea factory produced this cake under the CNNP (zhong cha) label.  Likely not a licensed CNNP production! Stored in M...

Wu Chi Dao brand tea is produced by a small tea factory in Mengku area of Lincang.  This is a spring 2003 production pressed by stone press and th...

First time ever!  A new blend for the year 2014!  This year's production is composed of Spring 2014 first flush Feng Qing material mixed with Snow ...

This is the fourth year of "Cha Wang" (Tea King) has been produced. It is and will be produced only from first flush of Spring tea from Ancient Ar...

This is Hai Lang Hao's special autumn blend of ancient arbor tea. The name "Zhu Jiu" (煮酒) means to "boil liquor" and it represents how the deep-co...

This is a Spring 2013 Yi Wu cake that was wet-piled for about 25 days (instead of the full 45 days). This is what's called half-fermented or half ...

"Ying Shan Hong" is the red-purple Rhodendron flower that once a year blankets the mountains of Yunnan in a red cloak. Our "Ying Shan Hong" cake is...