2019 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Bang Dong Zi Cha" Purple Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake

Name: 2019 Yunnan Sourcing "Autumn Bang Dong Zi Cha" Purple Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake
Brand: Yunnan Sourcing Brand Pu-erh
Price: 91.0 USD
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Bang Dong Village (邦东寨) is located in the county Mengku, Lincang prefecture. Bang Dong is a small village situated at an altitude of 1600 meters. Our production is made entirely from the tea picked by three families from their small ancestral tea gardens. The tea trees are 80-200 years old and are growing naturally.

This is entirely Bang Dong Zi Cha (Purple Tea). The tea is not from cloned purple plants but rather is collected from the purple tinged leaves and stem trees that grow alongside the non-purple tea trees in the same garden. This area of Bang Dong （4km north of Bang Dong town just west of Na Han village) is very sunny and high altitude with southern facing slopes and as such has a high incidence of naturally occurring purple mutations (around 15-20% of the trees in this area).

The purple tea of Bang Dong is not quite the same as Yi Wu and Jinggu area purple teas that are more purple when fresh and darker black in color after processing into mao cha. The Bang Dong area "zi cha" (lit. purple tea) has purple stems and some purple tinging on the leaves. The taste is distinctive from the non-purple mutated trees growing in the same area (often side by side), with less bitterness, more sweetness, and a fruity character. There is still bitterness like our teas from "Bang Dong" and "Na Han", but overall it's less pronounced and sweeter.

A total of 40 kilograms in total was produced. We pressed these tea cakes with a stone-press and used low-temperature drying to preserve the integrity of the tea.

Net Weight: 400 grams per cake (7 cakes per bamboo leaf tong)
Harvest time: October 2018
Harvest Area: Na Han village, Bang Dong county, Lincang Prefecture
Total Production amount: 40 kilograms

Wrapper Design by Sander Mack-Crane

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.

Overall rating: 4.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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Interesting good tea

"I like this tea it's different then most and it tastes like raw puerh regular lightly mixed with purple ye sheng lol .... I find depending on the brewing parameters it will either taste more or less purple if that makes sense ? ... thick soup with the feeling of drinking clouds ... fruity smell with warmed up leaves , fruit and ash wet leaf smell ... its a trippy mix of flavors ... here is what I found ... sweet creamy broth , red fruits , grass , asparagus, juicey fruit gum , old chewed spearmint gum , lima bean , also a neat thing I found is the feeling in the mouth after drinking this reminds me of licking a hairy green leaf ??? lol I know its weird but I primarily drink young raw and it's a noticeable difference to me . Lastly the chi is heavy and meditative gives me the old forhead confusion too ... definitely nothing uncomfortable is noticeable for me when I am brewing responsibly..."

— Herb 3. (4/5)

Light bodied and stupefying

"This pu-erh is most memorable for its stupefying effect on the mind, as a result of which I wouldn’t grab for it often. The fact that it is light bodied doesn’t help its case either. As for the flavours, I enjoy drinking it, but not more than the average young tea at this price. It carries a flowery aroma with hints of bubblegum, apricots, green pepper, and za’atar. First infusion has a light taste with no bitterness and notes of cloud ear fungi and white pepper. The following one is somewhat sweet and mineral. There is also a bit of an apricot tartness to it. Mild bitterness develops throughout the session, but it is nothing to behold. I also found some infusions to resemble nocino – a walnut liqueur. The aftertaste is cooling, sweet and spicy with notes of vanilla and green onion as well as a persistent saltiness."

— Tomas G. (3/5)