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2006 Jing Long "Yi Wu Mountain" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

2006 Jing Long "Yi Wu Mountain" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

by Jing Long Yi Wu Tea Factory
$11.50 - $118.50
$11.50
$11.50 - $118.50
$11.50

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 that left Yi Wu and traveled overland all the way to Beijing in 2006!

Pressed in Yi Wu from Yi Wu area tea trees, and then stored in Jinghong until June 2020, this has aged well and gives a gold-orange tea soup when brewed.  Smooth, sweet with hints of honey and hay.  There is a slight dark chocolate bitterness to it that quicky transforms in the mouth to a viscous and lubricating experience!

If you love Yi Wu tea, but want something aged, mellow but still having complexity then this just might be the tea you've been looking for! 

400 grams per cake

As of May 4th, 2021 this tea may taste a bit different due to longer storage in Jinghong.  Please sample first if you've not tried this "version".

** Some wrappers may be bug-bitten with little holes in the paper. There may also be some dust between the wrapper and the cake. Rinse tea once or twice briefly before drinking! If you are squeamish please don't order this tea!

Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 2 reviews.

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this tea swallows itself!

"With an ember like Cha Qi that starts in the chest and emanates to the extremities, this lovely tea always impresses me with its subtle maturity as it enters middle age. A slight astringency of its rebellious youth lingers but gives way quickly to a very soft honey like mouth feel, and ultimately a hui gan with whispers of jasmine. A wistful longing for the past."

— Rich (5/5)

Abandoned old Theater meets Beetroot!

"Bouquet: The aromatic atmosphere of this well aged buddy is quite special and very potent! I mentioned this within another review of an aged fellow before but also this one here build his home within an abandoned theater where you can scent all those different impressions of old seats and curtains withering since the Renaissance times, soaked watercolored stage designs and empty actor backstage rooms still filled with the atmosphere of greasepaint. Beside those imaginary aspects there is also a very strong camphor and a certain mushroom flair to it. But one of the main actors definitely is the beetroot - juicy pickled and stored within a non to wet old basement. This bouquet gets even more crazy within later infusions. Taste: Right from the start its liquor turns dark copper amber-ish immediately - dark and thick within is saturation. It develops a certain coating feeling especially on your tongue and teeth while energy-wise it is a very warming aged Sheng - you can feel this sensation the most within your chest which also comes along with a certain tingling. This tingling like an impulse is something which gets more and more deeper in the following infusions. Later you can feel a fine like ants tingling on the sides of your head. Its texture is very thick and oily. Taste-wise a similar profile like within the bouquet is showing his magic starting with and always keeping the beetroot and watercolors at front, while you also find notes of potatoes and carrots kept in old wooden boxes in a not to intense wet basement. There is definitely a dark chocolate bitterness to it but without the actual chocolate taste more the feel of the bitterness it developed. While HK storage often tends the scent and taste massively moldy and basement-ish this fellow keeps a lot of its original content but improved it with the right way of storage. Very mellow and cozy tea especially nice during the Winter season! More Reviews & Photos at https://www.instagram.com/zerozen_artlab/"

— ZeroZen (5/5)

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